Singapore radio code’s grouping of homosexuality with criminal acts sparks calls for review
Clause positioning homosexuality as a crime alongside paedophilia and incest ‘has no place in a post-377A Singapore’, actor and blogger say
A Singaporean actor and blogger have taken issue with a clause in the city state’s radio broadcast code that groups homosexuality with paedophilia and incest as “lifestyles” that are not allowed on the airwaves.
“I’m guilty of having signed this too, because, well, I wanted to keep my DJ job,” Lee wrote in a social media post on June 23.
Lee told This Week in Asia that he brought the issue up at the 40th anniversary of Reach, the feedback-gathering department of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, in March but had yet to hear back.
“The document author’s intent is clear: to position homosexuality as a crime alongside paedophilia and incest. This has no place in post-377A Singapore,” Lee wrote.
In January 2023, Singapore struck off Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalised sex between men.