Vincent Wijeysingha is a senior lecturer in social work and social policy at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and was previously a parliamentary candidate for the Singapore Democratic Party.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's announcement last month that the government would repeal a colonial-era law criminalizing sex between men while simultaneously strengthening the legal definition of marriage signals a further net shrinkage in the rights of all of the country's citizens, gay or straight.
