The move to repeal Section 377A was first mooted by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during his National Day Rally speech in 2022. - ST FILE
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Section 377A, a decades-old law criminalising gay sex, has officially been struck from the books, as President Halimah Yacob had assented on Dec 27 to the Bill that proposed the repeal.
At the same time, changes to the Constitution to protect the current definition of marriage from legal challenge are now in force, according to notices published on the Government e-Gazette website on Tuesday evening.
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