SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Singapore will decriminalise sex between men, says prime minister Lee Hsien Loong says Singapore will repeal law criminalising sex between men, but will uphold traditional definition of marriage. ADVERTISEMENT Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced that his country will decriminalise sex between men, but will continue to uphold the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. ADVERTISEMENT In his annual national day rally speech, Lee said on Sunday that he believed repealing Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, is the “right thing to do” as most Singaporeans were becoming more accepting of gay people. ADVERTISEMENT “Private sexual behaviour between consenting adults does not raise any law and order issue. There is no justification to pro