After months of debate about his sexuality, gay man wins asylum.

Yew Fook Sam may choose not to be in a relationship because he is a Christian, says chaplain Kieran Bohan. (Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian)

A man accused of pretending to be gay to avoid deportation to his native Malaysia, where homosexual acts are illegal, has been granted asylum after the Home Office accepted that people could be gay and single.

The result is being celebrated as…