When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced at the National Day Rally (NDR) two weeks ago that the Government would repeal the law criminalising sex between consenting men, the audience broke into applause.
For gay men, their friends and supporters, it must have felt like a new dawn to be finally rid of a discriminating and alienating law.
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