India's Supreme Court is hearg arguments the historic se this week, years after crimalized gay sex. India uld bee the send place Asia to allow marriage equaly, after Taiwan.
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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. In 2009, the Delhi High Court led that the ban on nsensual gay sex vlated fundamental rights.
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.
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 *
The group, named “Tst, ” provis unselg, support and sexual health servic to gay and transgenr persons.
India crimalized gay sex five years ago.
Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy.
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 *
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.
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.