Unwitting news channel airs defiant gay kiss in Singapore – and censors couldn’t do a thing about it

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LGBT+ folk are celebrating after an Asian news station unwittingly aired a same-sex kiss for the first time.

Channel News Asia, a 24-hour multinational news television channel headquartered in Singapore, was airing a live report about the Winter Olympics opening ceremony when two men shared a defiant kiss in the background.

The impactful moment has since gone viral in Singapore, due to the fact broadcasting codes strongly restrict any content “which depict or propagate sexual perversions such as homosexuality, lesbianism”.

Indeed, Singapore still has Section 377A in the country’s penal code which gives a sentence of up to two years in jail for “gross indecency”.

@starrie7777

they can’t censor the ending pose