India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday.
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INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn. * india legalizes gay sex *
India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn. Thursday’s historic lg is the culmatn of a lengthy and often ght legal battle for equaly a untry where homosexualy remas taboo.
* india legalizes gay sex *
In 2009, the Delhi High Court led that the ban on nsensual gay sex vlated fundamental rights.
India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday. * india legalizes gay sex *
In s 2013 lg, the Supreme Court said that only a “mcule actn of the untry’s populatn nstute lbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenrs” and was therefore “legally unstaable” to repeal the act. Durg the latt heargs, lawyers reprentg more than a dozen gay and lbian Indians qutned the nstutnal basis of that earlier lg. In an terview earlier this year, lawmaker Subramanian Swamy, a proment member of the lg Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), scribed the legalizatn of gay sex as a “danger to natnal secury” and “agast Hdutva.
Out of the timated 48 former Brish loni that crimalize homosexualy, 30 still have laws based on the origal lonial anti-LGBT legislatn, acrdg to Lus Mendos, -thor of the 2017 Internatnal LGBTI Associatn “State-Sponsored Homophobia” report.