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- EXPLAED | HOW WE GOT HERE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LGBT RIGHTS AND LAWS INDIAFROM ANCIENT INDIA TO THE 21ST CENTURY, THE LGBT MUNY HAS FOUND REPRENTATN, FACED OPPRSN MANY FORMS.VISHNU GOPATHPUBLISHED: 06 SEP 2022, 12:39 PM ISTEXPLAERS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
EXPLAED | HOW WE GOT HERE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LGBT RIGHTS AND LAWS INDIAFROM ANCIENT INDIA TO THE 21ST CENTURY, THE LGBT MUNY HAS FOUND REPRENTATN, FACED OPPRSN MANY FORMS.VISHNU GOPATHPUBLISHED: 06 SEP 2022, 12:39 PM ISTEXPLAERS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
* gay rights history india *
Jt 30 years before this, the same India that now allows people to take lovers of the same sex, was an India that persecuted openly gay people and an India where if you me out as gay or queer, you uld lose your, how did the untry make this transn? But today, on the anniversary of India's own LGBT rights day, we walk you through a brief history of LGBT laws Ancient & Medieval IndiaBefore the imposn of lonial-era laws unr Brish le, India had s own texts, which tailed the practice of homosexualy and same-sex terurse. The Manmri, for example, tailed punishments like shavg the head of a woman or cuttg off her fgers, as punishment for engagg lbian om the texts, the walls of ancient archecture are the send source of rmatn about ancient India's thoughts on sexualy, wrote thor and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik a 2008 article tled 'Did Homosexualy exist ancient India?
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay rights history india *
The two together would lay the groundwork for the legal chang of the next 20 Dawn of a New Millennium for LGBT RightsIndian LGBT activists holdg an LGBT rights 2009, the Delhi High Court, Naz Foundatn vs NCT of Delhi, led that Sectn 377, which crimalised same-sex relatnships, was unnstutnal, and stck the law down, crimalisg homosexualy India for the first time.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Dog so was also found to fall foul of the right to equal treatment (Article 14) and the prohibn of discrimatn (Article 15) verdict, which was hailed as a victory for LGBT rights, was challenged by several anti-gay rights groups on relig, polil, and social grounds, who claimed that the right to privacy did not clu the right to m an offence, and that crimalisg homosexualy would affect the stutn of marriage. "This cisn would lead to protts across the untry, wh the Aam Aadmi Party, the Indian Natnal Congrs, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), makg the crimalisatn of homosexualy a part of their electn manifto the 2014 general Assembly to 2018, and a five-judge SC bench, which clud the then-Chief Jtice Dipak Misra, would pass a historic orr. (File photo: Getty Imag)Ne years after the Delhi High Court crimalised homosexual acts among nsentg adults by readg down Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC), the Supreme Court today began hearg the matter.
GAY RIGHTS
A bunch of petns challenged the wordgs Sectn 377, "whoever voluntarily has rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh any man, woman or animal" sayg vlated the rights of a sectn of society reprented by lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs (LGBT). The nth chapter of the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana -- posed around 4th century BC, talks about oral sexual acts (Auparistaka), homosexualy and also of siar activi among transgenrs (triya prakri). Later the eveng, Bobby explas that India homosexualy is characterized, as often is Asia, by the classil try: crimalizatn, social disapproval, and the police’s nonenforcement of the law.