{"id":50704,"date":"2022-11-30T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/singapore-lifts-gay-sex-ban-but-blocks-path-toward-marriage-equality"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:42:02","slug":"singapore-lifts-gay-sex-ban-but-blocks-path-toward-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50704","title":{"rendered":"Singapore lifts gay sex ban but blocks path toward marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ+ advocates welcome repeal of British colonial-era law while expressing dismay as parliament backs existing definition of marriage<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s parliament has decriminalised sex between men, but has amended the constitution to effectively block full marriage equality.<\/p>\n<p>The British colonial-era law penalised sex between men with up to two years in jail, although the statute was not actively enforced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/singapore-lifts-gay-sex-ban-but-blocks-path-toward-marriage-equality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ+ advocates welcome repeal of British colonial-era law while expressing dismay as parliament backs existing definition of marriageSingapore\u2019s parliament has decriminalised sex between men, but has amended the constitution to effectively block full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,2729,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-singapore","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\/50704","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions\/50705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}