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• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE DIA
• MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA
• GAY MARRIAGE DIA

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

Over the years, acceptance of homosexualy has also grown India. "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. "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.

GAY MARRIAGE DIA

On Monday, the Supreme Court of India said a five-judge bench will start hearg fal arguments over grantg legal regnn to same-sex marriag on April 18, proceedgs of which will be livtreamed on s webse and the urt l favour of legalizg same-sex marriage, will be a landmark moment for LGBTQ people India and the entire majory of the 32 untri and terrori that have already enacted marriage equaly laws are the Ameris and Europe — and, when to relign, are predomantly Christian — so a posive oute India uld fluence laws elsewhere the the seChakraborty and Dang were one of two upl who ially petned the Supreme Court to change the law — the other is Parth Phiroze Mehrotra and Uday Raj Anand, a gay uple New Delhi — but the number of petners has sce grown, and the Supreme Court has also transferred several s om other high urts, cludg those Delhi and petn argu that India's Special Marriage Act, 1954 should allow same-sex upl to have the same legal right to marriage as oppose sex upl and that nyg them that right vlat several articl of India's Special Marriage Act solemniz marriage outsi of the relign or fah of eher spoe, as opposed to unns registered unr laws related to relig unns, such as the Hdu Marriage Act, It HappensTennsee law rtrictg drag is the 1st of many such proposed bills the U. Sgapore to repeal lonial-era law banng sex between menPri celebratns happeng war-torn Kharkiv as LGBTQ muny fights for rights"The urts are not bound by popular opn, " said Shep Sgh, the founr and director of the Indian onle LGBTQ magaze Gaylaxy. "WATCH | LGBTQ muny India marks 2018 crimalizatn of homosexualy: Gay sex ban overturned IndiaCBC News spoke to members of the Indo-Canadian muny to fd out what the historic lg means to of rights brgs bra draPolil and societal chang haven't happened quickly enough for many LGBTQ Indians, who have opted to rettle more progrsive untri.

He referred to a 2014 World Bank se study, tled The Enomic Cost of Homophobia, that timated India may be sacrificg up to 1. Conservative phback expectedA urt cisn allowg same-sex marriage is not likely to benef everyone the same way, utned Sgh, of the magaze Gaylaxy. "Shep Sgh, the founr and director of the Indian onle LGBTQ magaze Gaylaxy, says a urt cisn allowg same-sex marriage is not likely to benef everyone the same way, pecially women who are poor.

MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA

(Submted by Shep Sgh)Women, pecially those who are poor, face different stggl Indian society, Sgh said, while men "whether gay or straight, they have a lot of leeway. The Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison, and is now hearg arguments a se to legalize same-sex marriage. They had even taken him to a Hdu fah healer who promised to rid the boy of his homosexualy — by any means possible.

"My son and I have always been close and I thought, given how difficult he found to tell me, what mt children homophobic and transphobic fai be gog through?

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She answered their qutns about homosexualy. "I told the uncle that if he was so nvced the fah healer, then to ask the mystic to turn him gay, too, then heterosexual aga.