While the city-state is prosperous and developed, social attitudes remain conservative and sex between men is still illegal, although the statute is not actively enforced.
"I want to have my voice heard, I want to know that we matter and I want to have equality in Singapore," Susan Helen, a 39-year-old business manager taking part, told AFP. Organisers did not release figures on the crowd size, but an AFP reporter estimated that thousands attended. The latest challenge was dismissed by Singapore's top court in February, which ruled that the law would be maintained but on the basis that it"would not be proactively enforced".
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