I couldn't sleep last night and listened to the BBC overnight program. It is very unusual (particularly for a very conservative society, Singapore) that PM Lee discussed gay rights Section 377A. What surprised me is that I have no ideas that if any gay person openly admits she/he is a homosexual person, she/he would be jailed a maximum penalty of two years in prison. What Prime Minster Lee explained that the section 377A is a law which was "handed" from British era - 1938 and it is not actively enforced.
Then... why get rid of it? We are now in the year of 2017! Prime Minister Lee said that he is "prepared to live with it until social attitudes change".
(1) http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/pm-lee-discusses-gay-rights-and-succession-planning-on-bbc-s/3558610.html
(2) http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pm-lee-on-bbcs-hardtalk-most-would-back-retaining-section-377a-if-a-referendum-was-held
(3) http://www.pmo.gov.sg/newsroom/pm-lee-hsien-loongs-interview-bbc-hardtalk
We, the lucky Americans, are still enjoying our freedom and constitution rights.
My Alma Mater University of Wisconsin Madison has a LGBT Campus Center Library since 1998. The library is part of UW libraries system providing LGBT studies and theory and as well as popular film and documentaries.
https://lgbt.wisc.edu/library.htm
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