Four upl are petng India's Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage : NPR

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE DIA
• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA
• FOUR UPL ARE PETNG INDIA'S SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

GAY MARRIAGE DIA

/ 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?

: 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) 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. "I'm very optimistic and have great fah the judiciary, " Ms Guswamy, whose team is reprentg six same-sex unn s urt, told the of her optimism e om readg the December 2018 judgement that crimalised gay sex - "the thg that stck me most was that the urt emphasised the right to choice of partner and that mak me very optimistic", she said.

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

"Homosexualy is not a disease, " the IPS said, addg that discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people uld "lead to mental health issu them" IPS statement rri some heft - a siar statement supportg crimalisg gay sex 2018 had been referred to by the Supreme Court s judgement. 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.

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.

MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA

"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.

FOUR UPL ARE PETNG INDIA'S SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

India's Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison but has yet to legalize same-sex marriag. India crimalized gay sex five years ago Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy.

After s of grassroots activism and tense lobbyg at policy levels, the Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. Sce the law India only regniz heterosexual marriag, children of gay upl lose out on legal regnn for both parents. A powerful right-wg figure has exprsed support for LGBTQ rights Sce there is no legal regnn of same-sex marriage, gay upl whose fai threaten them wh vlence bee they are opposed to gay relatnships have no protectn unr the law.

Earlier this year, Bhagwat said that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. In December 2021, the Uttarakhand High Court orred a gay uple to be protected by the police. In November 2019, the Punjab and Haryana High Court orred the police to protect a gay uple threatened by their fai.

A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the most powerful Hdu natnalist anizatn, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, said an terview that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to.

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.