India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn.
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- INDIA JT STCK DOWN A LAW BANNG GAY SEX
- INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
- MR GAY WORLD INDIA 2017: WNER SAMARPAN MAI TALKS ABOUT ERADITG DISCRIMATN
INDIA JT STCK DOWN A LAW BANNG GAY SEX
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India’s hight urt has jt stck down a more than century-old prohibn on gay sex, llg the Victorian-era law “irratnal, fensible, and maniftly arbrary.
The lg reprents a hard-fought victory for gay-rights activists India, who have been battlg the law for more than a .
INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
Sectn 377 was nsistently enforced, but police and others sometim weaponized the law to harass, blackmail, or extort transgenr or gay people — pecially men. Gay rights advot said also terred victims of sexual asslt om reportg crim over fears of prosecutn.
The fight to crimalize gay sex India. Fally, 2009, the Delhi High Court overturned the ban on gay sex, but the lg only applied that specific jurisdictn, not across the untry. That early gay rights victory almost immediately faced a setback.
Proponents of Sectn 377 took the challenge to India’s Supreme Court, which fully restated the ban on gay sex 2013.
MR GAY WORLD INDIA 2017: WNER SAMARPAN MAI TALKS ABOUT ERADITG DISCRIMATN
In that 2013 cisn, the urt said that gay people ma up a “mcule actn” of India’s populatn, and left up to India’s Parliament to change the laws. And a year later, India’s hight urt strengthened that prciple when stck down the law crimalizg gay sex.
India’s gay rights advot won a major victory on Thursday — but there’s still more to do. The end of Sectn 377 won’t necsarily be embraced across India, and there’s still a lot of skepticism about gay rights outsi major urban centers and among nservative relig Hdu, Mlim, and Christian groups.
Those who wanted the law to rema place argued that sexual orientatn wasn’t nate, and that crimalizg gay sex would lead to the spread of HIV, acrdg to the New York Tim. Still, many advot terpreted this lg as layg the groundwork for a greater acceptance of gay, lbian, and transgenr people India.