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'''Section 377A of the Penal Code''' of [[Singapore]] was, until its repeal on 27 December 2022<ref>https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/s377a-officially-repealed-as-president-assents-to-changes-to-legislation</ref>, the statute which criminalised "[[gross indecency]]" — in practice, all forms of [[non-penetrative sex]] such as [[mutual masturbation]] — between [[mutually consenting]] males above the [[age of consent]] (16 years), including in private. It was the last of a family of British colonial-era anti-[[sodomy]] laws to be struck off Singapore's books, and its retention, and eventual repeal, became the central battleground of Singapore's [[LGBT]] rights movement for over three decades.

Sex between males where one party is underaged is charged under separate provisions such as [[sex with a minor below 16]] or [[statutory rape]]. Non-consensual sex or sexual assault involving males is charged under [[Section 354 of the Penal Code]]<ref>https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PC1871#pr354-</ref> or [[Section 376 of the Penal Code]] (see main article: [[Rape of males in Singapore]]).

Section 377A (Outrages on decency)<ref>https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PC1871?ProvIds=pr377A-.</ref> read:
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"Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of '''gross indecency''' with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years."
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Six months after the [[Court of Appeal]] ruled in ''[[Tan Seng Kee v AG]]'' that Section 377A was "unenforceable in its entirety", Prime Minister [[Lee Hsien Loong]] announced during his [[National Day Rally]] speech of 21 August 2022 that the Government would repeal it. The successive constitutional challenges that led to that ruling are covered in a separate article: '''see main article [[Section 377A constitutional challenge]]'''.