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• 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

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. " 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.

INDIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW IS HISTORY. NEXT CHALLENGE: TREAT LGBTQ PATIENTS WH RPECT

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.

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. 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.

LGBT INDIANS DARE TO HOPE AS SUPREME COURT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW

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.

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.

INDIA GAY SEX BAN IS STCK DOWN. ‘INFENSIBLE,’ COURT SAYS.

“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.

” 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. 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. ”Intertgly, India’s leadg policians, who ually never rist an opportuny to weigh on a hot issue, have mostly stayed out of the Sgh for The New York TimPrime Mister Narendra Modi has said very ltle about gay rights, spe the nservative stance of his erng Bharatiya Janata Party on many social issu.

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

Some gay people shared stori about beg raped by police officers and then threatened wh jail time if they ever me several years, Sectn 377 was the cross hairs, wh the urts gog back and 2009, a urt New Delhi led that the law uld not be applied to nsensual sex.

In 2016, five gay and lbian Indians submted a wr petn challengg Sectn 377 on the basis that vlated their rights to equaly and ial group of petners the latt challenge clud Mr. Mehra, a journalist; Ru Dalmia, a celebry chef; Ayha Kapur, a bswoman; and Aman Nath, a the Supreme Court prepared to hear the se, more than 25 other Indians wh varied social and enomic backgrounds joed those to file a petn was Anurag Kalia, 25, an engeer livg Bangalore, who was once so aaid to say the word “gay” that he practiced dog so ont of the mirror. Uganda says no plan to brg bill punishg homosexualsNovember 04, 2019 4:30 pmEsther Mbayo, the mister charge of the princy, said a statement Monday that the ernment "do not have any plans of retroducg the anti-homosexualy bill on the floor of Parliament.

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. 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.

INDIA'S ANTI-GAY SEX RULG CASTS LIGHT ON OTHER COUNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

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. "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. Even though homosexualy and queer inti have been accepted by the prent Indian youth, but wh the boundari of fai and hom, acceptance remas a nstant stggle for the people of the muny.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

This sectn was challenged for the first time 2001, when the Naaz Foundatn, an NGO, approached the Delhi High Court and filed a public tert ligatn, seekg legalisatn of homosexual activi between two nsentg adults.

The gay rights activists said that sectn 377 nied a person’s digny and crimalised his re inty solely on the acunt of his sexual preference and th vlat Article 21 of the nstutn. The Bench s 105-page judgement allowg the plea held that Sectn 377 ni a gay person of the right to full personhood which is implic notn unr Article 21 of the Indian Constutn. 6th September, 2018, beme one of the most important day for the LGBTQ muny as the Supreme Court of India stct down Sectn 377 and led that, nsensual homosexual activi between two people would no longer be nstuted as a crime.

Although the untry terpreted Article 15 of the Constutn and prohibed any form of discrimatn agast the homosexual, many other legal provisns have not been provid for which clus same-sex marriage. 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.