Is there gay marriage India?

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE DIA
• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGES IN INDIA: LEGAL RECOGNITION OF SAME SEX BY LAW

GAY MARRIAGE DIA

Gay marriage dia News When did homosexualy bee ‘unacceptable’ India? / Apr 27, 2023, 13:43 (IST) There is more to how India thought of gay sex history than Kama Sutra and Khajuraho. And when people say gay marriage would go agast our culture, they are fallg back on lonial laws and Indians who supported lonisers Sttish ‘puts off’ Pri film show Jul 12, 2023, 08:20 (IST) How different is India’s view om world on same-sex marriage?

Not jt India, world over, pavg of the way for legalisg gay marriage has been ght wh hurdl Married Texas, gay Indian uple seeks rights India TNN / Apr 26, 2023, 01:59 (IST) In a gay relatnship sce 2012, Vaibhav and Parag through senr advote Geeta Luthra on Tuday plead wh the Supreme Court to make Foreign Marriage Act genr ntral. Hop pned on marriage equaly se Supreme Court: Sred but optimistic, says US gay uple TNN / Apr 28, 2023, 05:22 (IST) Why should gay Indians like me have to go abroad to marry? Has society llapsed the 31 untri where gay marriage is legal?

: Ruth Vana TNN / Mar 19, 2023, 05:00 (IST) Why I once wanted my gay son to marry a woman / Feb 23, 2023, 14:40 (IST) In an open letter, the mother of a gay and genr-fluid child shar her worri about his future if he is unable to fd a life pann, and explas why ’s time we regnise that every person, irrpective of genr or choic, has an equal right to love, marriage and laws that support them SC agre to hear Centre's plea qutng mataabily of pleas seekg legal validatn of same-sex marriage PTI / Apr 17, 2023, 16:43 (IST) Nod to same-sex marriage will Special Marriage Act’s tent: Govt to Supreme Court TNN / Apr 27, 2023, 02:31 (IST) The Unn ernment told the Supreme Court on Wednday that regnisg LGBTQIA+ muny members’ marriage rights would stroy the legislative tent to perm only man-woman marriage unr the Special Marriage Act and poted out that the urt neher had the wherewhal to gge who among them were mal or femal nor the petence to create a regulatory amework for same-sex marriag. How vlence, fear ntue to plague queer muny TNN / Feb 12, 2023, 11:20 (IST) Sharif D Rangnekar had lived half his life as a gay man when Sec. REUTERS/Anhree FadnavisSummarySupreme Court to hear gay marriage se JanuaryFour gay upl say nied basic fundamental rightsModi ernment has opposed same-sex marriageCase seen as key tt for Modi ernmentNEW DELHI, Dec 19 (Rters) - Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such a historic verdict 2018, India's top urt crimalised homosexualy by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex.

GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Dpe the 2018 lg, members of India's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny pla about a lack of acceptance and discrimatn agast gay people Indian activists say that while 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, they are still prived of legal backg for same-sex marriag, a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married three Supreme Court filgs seen by Rters, the upl say that whout legal regnn of beg married, they are nied rights such as those lked to medil nsent, pensns, adoptn or even simpler thgs like club memberships for upl. "In tth, they have no rights at all, " the filg four gay upl want a Supreme Court lg that modifi or terprets laws a way that allows same-genr marriag, the urt filgs is a sensive subject the socially nservative untry of 1.

4 billn people, where speakg openly about homosexualy is taboo for pleas have already triggered a bate on prime-time TV news and generated edorials newspapers whether the time has e for the world's largt mocracy to jo roughly three dozen untri where such marriag are Uned Stat this month approved legislatn that provis feral regnn to same-sex marriag a bid to further safeguard gay Indian Supreme Court s, which follow many lawsus filed lower urts where no cisn was reached, will be a key tt for Modi's Hdu natnalist ernment and his Monday, a feral lawmaker om Modi's party appealed to lleagu the upper hoe of parliament to oppose legal regnn of marriage between same-sex upl. "Backg the upl are high-profile lawyers cludg one of India's former Attorney Generals and another unsel named Srabh Kirpal, who is openly gay and an terview last month acced Modi's ernment of layg his elevatn as a state judge due to his sexual and Modi's office did not rpond to a requt for ment on those remarks. Government of NCT of Delhi se, the Delhi High Court crimalized nsensual same-sex relatnships, statg that Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which crimalized homosexualy, vlated fundamental rights.

GAY MARRIAGES IN INDIA: LEGAL RECOGNITION OF SAME SEX BY LAW

However, is sential to note that crimalizg homosexualy do not tomatilly grant same-sex upl the right to marry. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

On Monday, the Supreme Court of India said a five-judge bench will start hearg fal arguments over grantg legal regnn to same-sex marriag on April 18, proceedgs of which will be livtreamed on s webse and the urt l favour of legalizg same-sex marriage, will be a landmark moment for LGBTQ people India and the entire majory of the 32 untri and terrori that have already enacted marriage equaly laws are the Ameris and Europe — and, when to relign, are predomantly Christian — so a posive oute India uld fluence laws elsewhere the the seChakraborty and Dang were one of two upl who ially petned the Supreme Court to change the law — the other is Parth Phiroze Mehrotra and Uday Raj Anand, a gay uple New Delhi — but the number of petners has sce grown, and the Supreme Court has also transferred several s om other high urts, cludg those Delhi and petn argu that India's Special Marriage Act, 1954 should allow same-sex upl to have the same legal right to marriage as oppose sex upl and that nyg them that right vlat several articl of India's Special Marriage Act solemniz marriage outsi of the relign or fah of eher spoe, as opposed to unns registered unr laws related to relig unns, such as the Hdu Marriage Act, It HappensTennsee law rtrictg drag is the 1st of many such proposed bills the U. Sgapore to repeal lonial-era law banng sex between menPri celebratns happeng war-torn Kharkiv as LGBTQ muny fights for rights"The urts are not bound by popular opn, " said Shep Sgh, the founr and director of the Indian onle LGBTQ magaze Gaylaxy. "WATCH | LGBTQ muny India marks 2018 crimalizatn of homosexualy: Gay sex ban overturned IndiaCBC News spoke to members of the Indo-Canadian muny to fd out what the historic lg means to of rights brgs bra draPolil and societal chang haven't happened quickly enough for many LGBTQ Indians, who have opted to rettle more progrsive untri.