Meet the gay uple that asked the Kerala High Court to legalise gay marriage- Exlive

Contents:

• KERALA'S 1ST GAY COUPLE WHO GOT MARRIED IN A TEMPLE MOVE HIGH COURT TO GET MARRIAGE REGISTERED
• MEET KERALA'S FIRST GAY UPLE TO GET 'MARRIED'
• THE FIRST ‘MARRIED’ GAY UPLE MOV KERALA HIGH COURT FOR REGNN OF HOMO-SEXUAL MARRIAG.
• KERALA GAY UPLE MOV HC SEEKG NOD FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE
• MEET THE GAY UPLE THAT ASKED THE KERALA HIGH COURT TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE

KERALA'S 1ST GAY COUPLE WHO GOT MARRIED IN A TEMPLE MOVE HIGH COURT TO GET MARRIAGE REGISTERED

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.

MEET KERALA'S FIRST GAY UPLE TO GET 'MARRIED'

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. (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. Nived and Rahim would probably be the first gay uple om the State to get married after the Constutn Bench of the Supreme Court.

THE FIRST ‘MARRIED’ GAY UPLE MOV KERALA HIGH COURT FOR REGNN OF HOMO-SEXUAL MARRIAG.

” In s epoch-makg judgement, a five-member Bench of the apex urt crimalised nsensual sex between adults of same urt held that the sectn would not apply to nsensual same-sex acts between homosexuals, lbians, and other sexual mori. Every day, we get phone lls om gay people who are facg unimagable societal and faial prsure to get married to a woman, ” he lbian marriagNo lbian marriag have taken place Kerala so far.

KERALA GAY UPLE MOV HC SEEKG NOD FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE

Nikh and Sonu, the first married gay uple om Kerala who got married 2019 have now filed a petn the Kerala High Court seekg to legally register their marriage. In their petn, they argued that the refal to register homosexual marriag unr the Special Marriage Act 1954 vlat the prcipl of equaly, non-arbrars, non-discrimatn, dividual digny and personal tonomy unr Articl 14, 15(1), 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Constutn of India. “The stutn of marriage affords certa rights and privileg to the persons matrimony the society and due to the aforaid excln, the homosexual upl like the petners are nied an opportuny to enjoy siar rights and privileg.

Though the Supreme Court had 2018 scrapped Sectn 377 and crimalized homosexualy the verdict stopped short of makg gay marriag legal. However, I kept this feelg to myself, bee of the taboo nature of the matter, ” wrote Nikh Usha Phkaran on his viral social media post while gog on to expla how normal is to be a homosexual, and reveal that Sonu M S and he have been livg as a “married uple” for a year.

“There are many gay upl Kerala who are leadg secret liv and I thk is meangls. However, is important to legalise gay marriage as right now we are jt livg as partners ont of the society.

MEET THE GAY UPLE THAT ASKED THE KERALA HIGH COURT TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE

The first married ‘gay’ uple has moved to the High Court of Kerala to challenge the provisns of Special Marriage Act of 1954 as they don’t ver and regnise the registratn of a homosexual marriage. The petner has add that the non-regnn of homosexual marriag Special Marriage Act, 1954 and the discrimatory provisns of the Act are agast Articl 14, 15(1), 19(1) (a) and 21 of the Constutn of India. The act of homosexualy was crimalized after the Judgment pronounced  Navtej Sgh Johar v.