India's Supreme Court strik down law that punished gay sex | AP News

Contents:

• INDIA'S TOP URT LEGALIZ GAY SEX HISTORIC VERDICT
• INDIA TO REVIEW LG ON LAW BANNG GAY SEX
• INDIA’S SUPREME COURT STRIK DOWN LAW THAT PUNISHED GAY SEX

INDIA'S TOP URT LEGALIZ GAY SEX HISTORIC VERDICT

The world's largt mocracy jt stck down a ban on gay Thursday, India's top urt clared parts of Sectn 377 unnstutnal, a historic cisn that fally brgs to end a lonial-era ban many have long fought to dismantle and that may herald a change untri across the world. "History ow an apology to LGBT persons for ostracisatn, discrimatn, " she verdict was greeted wh scen of jubilatn, as gay people across the untry hugged, cried, danced and waved activists of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny celebrate Bangalore, India after hearg the Supreme Court verdict strikg down a lonial-era law crimalizg gay sex on Sept.

INDIA TO REVIEW LG ON LAW BANNG GAY SEX

"People Bangalore, India celebrate after hearg the Supreme Court verdict legalizg gay sex between nsentg adults on Sept. Five Supreme Court judg Mumbai repealed a lonial-era law (sectn 377) crimalizg gay sex a landmark lg.

Jagah NV/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockIt's not jt India that is affected by the origal law had reverberated far beyond India, cludg untri where gay people still stggle for acceptance, Jsi Stern, the executive director of the New York-based rights group OutRight Actn Internatnal, told the Associated Prs. "India's relatnship wh homosexualy has changed over time. "A member of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny celebrat India's Supreme Court cisn to strike down a lonial-era ban on gay sex, Mumbai on Sept.

INDIA’S SUPREME COURT STRIK DOWN LAW THAT PUNISHED GAY SEX

"His parents had taken him to hospal where they gave him shock treatment to try and 'cure' him, " she New Delhi celebrate India's Supreme Court cisn strikg down a lonial-era ban on gay sex Mumbai on Sept. The law's ban on gay sex was stck down by the Delhi High Court 2009, then restated as a crimal offense 2013 by the Supreme Court, which said that only a “mcule actn of the untry’s populatn" would be affected and reprimand the high urt for "overreachg" s "anxiety to protect the so-lled rights of LGBT persons.

"Dalmia and her partner had been together for a long time, but they uldn't be married, their health surance wouldn't accept the other as fay, and they uldn't get jot bank now, she said, a new chapter the fight agast such jtice was celebrate the Supreme Court cisn to strike down a lonial-era ban on gay sex, Mumbai, India on Sept. ”And that's why activists mt prepare for the uphill battle that batg homophobia will prent, said Iyer, the activist.

India’s top urt is to review a cisn that upheld a lonial-era law which crimalis gay sex, a victory for rights mpaigners at a time when the untry is navigatg a path between tradn and morny.

The supreme urt on Tuday asked a five-judge bench to rensir s 2013 lg that only parliament n change the 1860 law, which impos a 10-year sentence for gay sex. If unsuccsful, any future cisns to lift the ban will rt wh policians, who are largely nservative and opposed to supreme urt ma a surprise lg 2013 that restated the ban on gay sex after a four-year perd of the hearg, gay rights activists outsi the urt sang: “We will be succsful.

”The human rights group Amnty Internatnal India weled the urt’s review, sayg the law puts gay people unr physil, mental and legal threat.

”Polls show about three-quarters of Indians disapprove of gay sex and are eply tradnal about other issu of sexualy, such as sex outsi of is one of 75 untri where gay sex is illegal, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.