A landmark judgment by India’s hight urt has overturned a lonial-era law that crimaliz nsensual gay sex
Contents:
- INDIA'S ANTI-GAY SEX RULG CASTS LIGHT ON OTHER COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
- SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- INDIA’S LGBT MUNY REACTS TO SECTN 377 GAY SEX LG
- DELHI HC LIKELY TO GET FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
- INDIA'S TOP COURT HAS JT MA GAY SEX LEGAL
INDIA'S ANTI-GAY SEX RULG CASTS LIGHT ON OTHER COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
The U.K.'s anti-gay "buggery laws" were exported to all s loni, cludg India. Other untri have adopted harsh anti-gay laws more recently. * gay justice india *
's anti-gay "buggery laws" were exported to all s loni, cludg India. Other untri have adopted harsh anti-gay laws more recently.
WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
After a groundbreakg lg overturng a ban on gay sex, India's hight urt restated the regrsive ban. * gay justice india *
Published December 12, 20139 m readIndia's Supreme Court on Wednday rtored a lonial-era law banng gay sex, overturng a 2009 lower urt lg that emed the 1861 law unnstutnal—and igng ntroversy around the Indian jtic led that a lower urt had overstepped s bounds and that only Parliament uld rcd the law crimalizg "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh man, woman or animal. "But 's the same kd of law which crimaliz homosexual nduct. The law was broaned 1892 to clu all male homosexual acts unr the term "gross cency.
SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
A judge who uld pave the way to legalizg gay marriage India took charge Wednday as chief jtice at a time when Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Hdu-natnalist agenda domat polics and throws up challeng for the urt. * gay justice india *
"The law was changed aga the mid-20th century, when labeled gay men as "crimal sexual psychopaths" and "dangero sexual offenrs. Canada crimalized homosexual activy 1969; Klippert was released two years former Brish loni like Canada, Atralia, New Zealand, and others repealed the buggery laws the 1960s and 1970s, a large majory of natns Ai, the Caribbean, and South Asia have kept theirs on the books.
While enforcement is rare, their existence furthers LGBT stigmatizatn, acrdg to Grace Poore, regnal ordator for Asia and Pacific Islands at the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (IGLHRC). "Police and other officials n e the laws to blackmail people, even if crimal prosecutns don't take place, acrdg to Brish loni are not the only untri that crimalize homosexual sex.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
Homosexualy is not a crime India anymore and is not a mental disorr, five Supreme Court judg clared on Thursday a spectacular leap for gay rights the untry and a rabow moment s history. The Supreme Court overled s own 2013 cisn and partially stck down Sectn 377, a ntroversial Brish-era law that banned nsensual gay sex. The ban is irratnal, fensible and maniftly arbrary, the judg said. "Take me as I am," said Chief Jtice of India Dipak Misra, toastg gay pri." emprop="scriptn * gay justice india *
Dpe posive recent velopments for LGBT people the Uned Stat and other parts of the world, nsensual same-sex relatns rema a crime at least 76 untri, acrdg to a Uned Natns report released followg eight natns have recently adopted or have pecially harsh anti-gay laws. Cameroon"Homosexual nduct is crimalized 38 stat Ai, and many, laws are beg stricter, " said Dtrich. "In several of the untri, LGBT people are beg arrted and taed, sentenced to prison by the judge, simply bee they are gay.
Homosexual nduct there is punishable wh a fe and up to five years jail.
INDIA’S LGBT MUNY REACTS TO SECTN 377 GAY SEX LG
A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. * gay justice india *
Broar hostily toward homosexualy is on the rise the untry. Homosexuals, pecially gay men, are regularly prosecuted Cameroon, and sometim tak as ltle as a text msage to another man exprsg love or havg an appearance perceived as overly effemate to be put behd bars. JamaiJamai is one of 11 former Brish loni the Caribbean that still have the Brish buggery laws on the books prohibg male homosexual relatns.
Jamai's anti-gay laws (formally, the Offens Agast the Person Act) were stuted 1864.
UgandaIn Uganda, home to some of the harsht anti-gay laws Ai—wh sentenc for homosexualy rangg om 14 years to life imprisonment—some polil forc have been seekg to pass an even harsher anti-homosexualy the bill clus such headle-grabbg provisns as the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexual nduct, " the spe of the proposed law is what has many gay activists most worried, said Human Rights Watch's clse the legislatn stat that anyone, cludg fay members of LGBT people, n be prosecuted for not notifyg thori wh 24 hours if they know someone who is gay, wh sentenc of up to three years prison.
DELHI HC LIKELY TO GET FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
Indian Supreme Court Jtice Dipak Misra quoted Shakpeare as he read out the unanimo lg of five judg to legalize gay sex. * gay justice india *
Another clse stat that Ugandan cizens n be prosecuted for homosexual activi that take place outsi the natn's rponse to ternatnal cricism, the bill has been tabled for now. BundiIn April 2009, Bundi's lower hoe of ernment passed a law outlawg homosexual activy, wh prison sentenc for the nvicted rangg om two months to three years.
State Department found that no one Bundi had been arrted or prosecuted unr the anti-gay law that year, feedg the spicns of the print's crics that the move was a polil some of the more vic crackdowns on LGBT muni are takg place sub-Saharan Ai's poort untri is not a cince, said the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn's Jsi Stern, sce the attentn they generate n sometim provi a eful distractn om other prsg prri.
"IranUnr the penal of the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted after the 1979 revolutn, ath is a potential punishment for homosexualy. Internatnal human rights groups have llected evince that Iran has executed men on homosexualy charg, and documented s of arrts, imprisonment, and physil abe of LGBT persons based on their sexual orientatn or associatn wh other members of the LGBT updatg of Iran's penal May 2013 crimalized homosexual inty, rather than specific acts, makg punishable by 31 to 74 lash. Homosexualy was scribed by the secretary general of Iran's high uncil for human rights as "an illns and malady, " and by former Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad as somethg that "we don't have our untry.
INDIA'S TOP COURT HAS JT MA GAY SEX LEGAL
The Supreme Court recent years has stck down a ban on nsensual gay sex. A lg favor of legalizg gay unns would make India an outlier Asia. * gay justice india *
" A Tehran journalist who terviewed several Iranian homosexuals to show that they do ed exist received 60 lash and a four-year jail term. QatarQatar's anti-homosexualy laws have e unr creased scty as prepar to host the 2022 World Cup. Qatari law nsirs homosexualy a crimal offense punishable by up to seven years jail (or a life term when one of the parti is unr 16 years of age) wh the civic penal , Islamic Sharia law is on the books Qatar, though appli only to Mlims.
It dictat ath for homosexual acts mted by married persons and floggg for homosexual acts by unmarried dividuals.
Sgapore and MalaysiaAs former Brish loni, both natns still have Sectn 377 laws outlawg gay sex between men. In 2007 Sgapore modified s laws to perm oral and anal sex between heterosexuals and lbians, but male homosexual sex remas crimalized.
The Supreme Court llegium has remend the elevatn of senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge the Delhi high urt, rejectg the Unn ernment’s prelimary objectns agast his proposed elevatn. | Latt News India * gay justice india *
In 2009, when a lower urt led agast a law banng homosexualy, was a moment of pri, of triumph, of rilience for Indians around the world.
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Stori of gay pri paras, g out stori and even posive pictns pop culture were years later, that groundbreakg lg was shattered.
India’s Supreme Court restated the lonial-era law makg homosexualy a crime. If there are major global movements to boytt Rsia over s gay rights, what will happen wh India?