India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday.
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- DEBALA MAJUMR’S ‘GAY INDIA MATRIMONY’: ASKG THE RIGHT QUTNS ABOUT MARRIAGE
- INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
DEBALA MAJUMR’S ‘GAY INDIA MATRIMONY’: ASKG THE RIGHT QUTNS ABOUT MARRIAGE
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Read more: Column: Homophobia Is Not an Asian Value It’s for this reason that some activists believe India might not be ready for same-sex marriage—at least until genr and sexual orientatn discrimatn are outlawed.
“There are host of other battl to be fought and won, ” says Shep Sgh, an activist and founr of Gaylaxy, a LGBTQ magaze.
“The society is not gog to sh to embrace gay marriage but that’s not what we are necsarily lookg for, ” says Srabh Kirpal, a lawyer who helped challenged the law crimalizg same-sex relatns.
INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
The Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison, and is now hearg arguments a se to legalize same-sex marriage. They had even taken him to a Hdu fah healer who promised to rid the boy of his homosexualy — by any means possible.
"My son and I have always been close and I thought, given how difficult he found to tell me, what mt children homophobic and transphobic fai be gog through? She answered their qutns about homosexualy.
"I told the uncle that if he was so nvced the fah healer, then to ask the mystic to turn him gay, too, then heterosexual aga.