India's top urt lifted a lonial-era ban on gay sex on Thursday, a landmark judgement activists hope will improve rights for the LGBT muny the untry.
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- INDIA'S TOP URT LEGALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
- GAY UPL PETN INDIA'S SUPREME COURT OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS PRIME MISTER NARENDRA MODI GIVEN ADLE TO RPOND
INDIA'S TOP URT LEGALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
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An Indian supporter of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny tak part a pri para Bhopal on July 15, 2018.
- Supreme urt of India is hearg petns for the protectn of the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo cred should read -/AFP/Getty Imag)- | AFP | Getty Imag India's top urt scrapped a lonial-era ban on gay sex on Thursday a landmark judgement that activists hope will uphold the right to sex is nsired taboo by many socially nservative India, and was restated as a crimal offence 2013 after four years of crimalisatn.
"Any nsensual sexual relatnship between two nsentg adults - homosexuals, heterosexuals or lbians - nnot be said to be unnstutnal, " said the Chief Jtice of India, Dipak Misra, as he read out the sex had been punishable by up to 10 years jail. "It is not only about crimalisg but regnisg our fundamental rights, " Akhilh Godi, one of the petners the se, told Rters shortly before the judgement was judg the se had prevly said that gay people India faced ep-rooted trma and live fear.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
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. * indian courts gay *
A law known as "Sectn 377" had prohibed "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh any man, woman or animal" - which was wily terpreted to refer to homosexual sex.
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.
JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
"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.
GAY UPL PETN INDIA'S SUPREME COURT OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS PRIME MISTER NARENDRA MODI GIVEN ADLE TO RPOND
Through floods of tears, he me out to her as gay. " 18 upl have petned the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage Dai's reactn to her son tellg her he was gay was so remarkable that her phone number quickly circulated among members of Mumbai's LGBTQ+ muny. Some of India's biggt silver-screen stars have played queer rol, cludg Rajkummar Rao, who played a gay police officer the 2022 film Badhaai Do, and Sonam Kapoor, who played a lbian 2019's Ek Ladki Dekha Toh Aisa Laga.
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