{"id":47712,"date":"2022-08-22T01:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/21\/singapore-to-repeal-law-that-criminalises-sex-between-men"},"modified":"2022-08-22T01:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T16:23:47","slug":"singapore-to-repeal-law-that-criminalises-sex-between-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47712","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to repeal law that criminalises sex between men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed as \u2018a win for humanity\u2019 by LGBTQ+ rights groups<\/p>\n<p>Singapore will repeal a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, a landmark decision described by LGBTQ+ groups as \u201ca win for humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a national address on Sunday, the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, said that scrapping section 377A of the penal code would bring the law into line with current social attitudes and \u201cprovide some relief to gay Singaporeans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/21\/singapore-to-repeal-law-that-criminalises-sex-between-men\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed as \u2018a win for humanity\u2019 by LGBTQ+ rights groupsSingapore will repeal a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, a landmark decision described by LGBTQ+ groups as \u201ca win for humanity\u201d.In a nat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2729,783,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-singapore","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/revisions\/47713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}