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Malaysian Launches Test Case Against Gay Sex Law

A Malaysian man has launched the country's first legal challenge against Islamic laws banning gay sex, a test case supporters said Wednesday could help combat growing persecution of the LGBT community.He was charged last year for allegedly attempting to have "intercourse against the order of nature", and several others in the same case have already pleaded guilty and were caned as a punishment.Critics say the climate is worsening for the gay community in Muslim-majority Malaysi

28 May 2020
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Exorcisms Touted As ‘Cure’ For LGBT Indonesians

Andin is haunted by memories of being forced into an exorcism to "save" her from being transgender - a ritual that could become mandatory for Indonesia's LGBT community if a controversial new law is passed.For two decades she has endured harassment and abuse as her family desperately tried to "cure" her.

8 May 2020
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Singapore activist in new challenge to gay sex ban

A Singaporean gay rights activist said Wednesday he has filed a legal challenge against a law banning sex between men, the third recent bid to overturn the legislation.The law - known as "Section 377A" of the penal code - was inherited from the British colonial era but is rarely enforced in Singapore.Campaigners in the city-state have renewed efforts to do away with it since India's Supreme Court last year decriminalised gay sex by overturning a statute from its own period unde

26 September 2019
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