Singapore has always maintained that LGBT people are valuable members of society who face no discrimination at school or work, even telling the United Nations Human Rights Council that they get to enjoy the island city’s many gay bars and attend an annual rally.
So when Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam told parliament in March about the painful discrimination LGBT people face, it gave activists hope that a fresh chapter may be opening for gay rights in the city state – specifically, the striking down of an archaic law inherited from British colonialists that makes sex between men illegal.
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