In an interview with The Independent Singapore, he said that one does not need to be part of the LGBT community to understand the rationale and the need to do away with 377A.
During the recent People’s Action Party conference earlier this month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the opposition has been missing in action when it comes to thorny issues such as the repeal of section 377A which criminalises sex between men.
As far back as 2007, Tan and his party had been highlighting the need to focus on the colonial-era law, and support the repeal of 377A. “We call for the repeal not because of what some say due to a gay agenda or promoting a gay lifestyle. I am a heterosexual. If you have a sexy guy walking past me, you can’t trigger anything inside me. How can I be promoting a gay lifestyle when I cannot feel how it is like to be gay. So I am not promoting the lifestyle,” said Tan.
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