9. Remy Choo: 377 A Repeal - Singapore

About 60 participants from around 20 Myanmar and international businesses, as well as LGBT+ rights groups, trade union rights, international organisations, experts and lawyers discussed attended a workshop on 28/29 August at the Rose Garden Hotel, Yangon to discuss how businesses can support LGBT+ equality in Myanmar.

Read more: https://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/lgbt-equality.html

1. Singapore Parliamentary Debate 2007
Anal-penetrative sex is inherently damaging to the body and a misuse of organs, like shoving a straw up your nose to drink. The anus is designed to expel waste; when something is forcibly inserted into it, the muscles contract and cause tearing; fecal waste, viruses carried by sperm and blood thus congregate, with adverse health implications like ‘gay bowel syndrome’, anal cancer. ‘Acts of gross indecency’ under 377A also covers unhygienic practices like “rimming” where the mouth comes into contact with the anus. Consent to harmful acts is no defence–otherwise, our strong anti-drug laws must fall as it cannot co-exist with letting in recreational drugs as a matter of personal lifestyle choice.
ThioLi-ann
Former Nominated Member of
Parliament
Law Professor at National University
of Singapore

2. Lim MengSuangv A-G [2013] SGHC 73

3. Article 12 of the Constitution of the
Republic of Singapore
Equal protection
12.—(1)All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.
(2)Except as expressly authorisedby this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens of Singapore on the ground only of religion, race, descent or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.