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Contents:
- INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
- INDIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW IS HISTORY. NEXT CHALLENGE: TREAT LGBTQ PATIENTS WH RPECT
- LGBT INDIANS DARE TO HOPE AS SUPREME COURT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW
- INDIA GAY SEX BAN IS STCK DOWN. ‘INFENSIBLE,’ COURT SAYS.
- GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- INDIA'S ANTI-GAY SEX RULG CASTS LIGHT ON OTHER COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
A landmark judgment by India’s hight urt has overturned a lonial-era law that crimaliz nsensual gay sex * india gay law *
Even though Hdu and Mlim groups cid to stand back and not legally challenge the petn, members om all relig groups have vociferoly fend their anti-gay stand speech and media appearanc.
INDIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW IS HISTORY. NEXT CHALLENGE: TREAT LGBTQ PATIENTS WH RPECT
India's LGBT+ muny on Friday celebrated the first anniversary of a historic judgment that crimalized gay sex, but mpaigners warned major hurdl lay ahead wh same-sex marriage still "many years" away. * india gay law *
" 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.
NEW DELHI (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - India’s LGBT+ muny on Friday celebrated the first anniversary of a historic judgment that crimalized gay sex, but mpaigners warned major hurdl lay ahead wh same-sex marriage still “many years” ’s Supreme Court last year stck down Sectn 377, a lonial-era law that outlawed same-sex relatns, sparkg hop of equaly for the untry’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr populatn. Hundreds of stunts wh rabows pated on their fac scend on a New Delhi llege on Friday and others held parti major Indian ci to memorate the overturng of the ban on gay even those beatg dms and dancg warned that the fight for equal rights, cludg same-sex marriage and servg the ary, had not been won. 5 ln gay rights activists say the te figure uld be far higher and want thori to spread awarens about gay rights to prevent last year’s verdict om fadg to lg elevated the ncerns of LGBT+ people but has not brought about acceptance, said Simran, a trans-woman who heads the LGBT+ rights group Impulse New Delhi and only one name.
Not a chance, ” Simran are llg for anti-discrimatory laws to help LGBT people ga accs to jobs, healthre, tn and onle petn llg for genr-ntral legislatn, cludg a rape law that would also protect men, transgenr and tersex people has gaed more than 9, 000 has been phg for more rights for transgenr people but the ernment has remaed largely silent on gay opposn Congrs party on Friday posted a short vio on Twter that showed a pilatn of pro-LGBT+ ments ma by s lears the Social Jtice and Empowerment Mistry and the Natnal Human Rights Commissn did not immediately rpond to a requt for Julka, a 20-year-old stunt at the rally Delhi, said the scrappg of Sectn 377 embolned her to e out.
LGBT INDIANS DARE TO HOPE AS SUPREME COURT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW
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 gay law *
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. 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.
INDIA GAY SEX BAN IS STCK DOWN. ‘INFENSIBLE,’ COURT SAYS.
The lg is a landmark victory for rights advot, cludg dozens of gay petners who joed the se spe the threat of prosecutn. * india gay law *
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. When someone who is openly gay do vis a doctor, the doctor often prcrib so-lled "nversn therapy, " which unselors try to "nvert" someone om beg gay, says Vay Chandran, a peer unselor and director of Swabhava, an LGBTQ support group. Now that homosexualy is no longer a crime India, health anizatns need not worry about breakg the law when they promote safe sex and distribute ndoms to high-risk groups the LGBTQ muny.
GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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 gay law *
India is currently one of 75 untri the world that mak beg gay a crime, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, which tracks how many untri stute such laws.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTViotranscripttranscriptIndia Celebrat Gay Rights W: ‘We’re Fally Free To Be Who We Are’The Supreme Court stck down a lonial-era ban on gay sex that had been ed to blackmail, harass and sexually asslt L. 6, 2018NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimoly stck down one of the world’s olst bans on nsensual gay sex, a groundbreakg victory for gay rights that buried one of the most glarg vtig of India’s lonial weeks of liberatn by the urt and s of stggle by gay Indians, Chief Jtice Dipak Misra said the law was “irratnal, fensible and maniftly arbrary.
Wh rtrictns on gay rights topplg untry after untry, the lg India, the world’s send-most-populo natn, may enurage still more natns to act, she, however historic the lg of the urt, nsired a liberal unterweight to the nservative polics sweepg India, gay people here know that their landspe remas treachero. “History ow an apology to members of the muny for the lay ensurg their rights, ” Jtice Indu Malhotra Guswamy, one of the lead lawyers reprentg gay petners, said that the urt’s extensn of nondiscrimatn prcipl to gay people had laid a “very powerful foundatn.
INDIA'S ANTI-GAY SEX RULG CASTS LIGHT ON OTHER COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
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 marriag. * india gay law *
” The law was ually enforced s of sex between men, but officially extend to anybody ught havg anal or oral recent years more gay Indians have e out, and acceptance of gay, lbian and transgenr people has grown to some gree, the fact that timate behavr was still crimalized created much heargs July, lawyers argued that the law was out of sync wh the tim and legally nsistent wh other recent urt lgs, cludg one ma last year that guaranteed the nstutnal right to poted to siar hoary laws that had been toppled the Uned Stat, Canada, England and Nepal, India’s smaller and poorer neighbor.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
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And they went beyond classic legal Guswamy spoke of the s-long relatnship between two olr petners, Navtej Sgh Johar and Sunil Mehra, and the sacrific they had ma their personal and profsnal liv to keep their partnership Guswamy enuraged the judg to thk of all the young gay people who did not want to follow that same road and spend their liv hidg who they really were.