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Contents:

• WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA
• MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA
• INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• BT GAY DATG APPS DIA

WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA

Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was.

There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home. Through our own viss and those of the handful of LGBTQ+ tour operators who lead trips there, India is hospable and welg to all visors – cludg gay or lbian upl or groups.

We terviewed several gay tour operators cludg Bryan Herb om Zoom Vatns (listed as a rource below), Robert Sharp om Out Adventur, and Zach Mos om HE Travel, who have equently traveled to India, and they all report feelg credibly wele. They believe will take a long time to change regrsive attus towards three gay people om ral India tell their Kumar, 28, northern state of Uttar PrashI am really happy wh the urt's cisn.

MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA

No matter how nice I am or how much I help people, once they fd out I am gay, they n om people sympathise wh but they still thk 's a disease that needs to treated. A landmark judgment by India’s hight urt has overturned a lonial-era law that crimaliz nsensual gay sex, a hard-fought victory for the LGBTQ muny. The urt verdict is a major tone for LGBTQ-intifyg people across the untry, where homosexualy remas a social taboo and gay people face enmic discrimatn.

” India jos 17 Commonwealth natns that have overturned laws crimalizg homosexualy, a legacy left behd most of the natns by the former Brish lonial lers.

INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

New Delhi’s High Court crimalized homosexualy among nsentg adults 2009, only to be later overturned by the untry’s Supreme Court 2012, followg appeals om relig groups. 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.

NEW DELHI: In a gay relatnship sce 2012, Vaibhav and Parag got married Texas 2017 and wh a recently-adopted four month old baby hand, they through senr advote Geeta Luthra on Tuday plead wh the Supreme Court to make Foreign Marriage Act genr gay partners, seen tendg the baby, appeared through virtual mo the proceedgs before a five-judge Constutn bench head by CJI DY Chandrachud, who on Monday had disapproved advote Mathews Nmpara for potg at a woman petner to rm the urt she had e five tim to seek early hearg of her petn. 7% of the GDP gets affected by non-regnn of gay marriage as the bt of the gay bras leave the untry to fd eedom of choice of partners and marriage other advote Anand Grover said the LGBTQIA+ muny members nnot wa for Parliament, which will take s own time, for regnn of their right to marriage, ak to that of heterosexual upl.

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

Over the years, as Indian society beme more acceptg of homosexualy and much of the untry’s LGBTQ muny began celebratg their sexualy openly, the uple cid to make their relatnship known to their iends and fay.

BT GAY DATG APPS DIA

If legalized, India would bee the send enomy Asia after Taiwan to regnize same-sex marriage, a signifint right for the untry’s LGBTQ muny more than four years after the top urt crimalized gay sex. The historic lg 2018 that stck down a lonial-era law that had ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison expand nstutnal rights for the gay muny.

”India’s Supreme Court has, however, signaled uld challenge the ernment’s January, s llegium — prisg the Chief Jtice of India and two Jtic — said the ernment was opposg a gay judge’s nomatn part bee of his sexual orientatn. Gay upl and LGBTQ activists argue that by refg to regnize same-sex marriage, the ernment is privg homosexual upl of their right to equaly enshred the nstutn and opportuni enjoyed by married heterosexual upl.

Many such upl believe that legal regnn of same-sex marriage would not jt be a val step toward equaly but also rult more people g out as homosexuals and strengtheng their relatnship wh the state.

Acrdg to a Pew survey, acceptance of homosexualy India creased by 22 percentage pots to 37% between 2013 and many same-sex upl ntue to face harassment many Indian muni, whether Hdu, Mlim or December, India’s LGBTQ muny found support om an unexpected quarter. Mohan Bhagwat’s ments, which uld force the ernment to reasss s posn, were a parture om the group’s long-held views on homosexualy, which has a tangled history India, even though some of Hduism’s most ancient texts are acceptg of same-sex upl. 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.

"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? " 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.