Indian gay upl beg legal battle for same-sex marriage | AP News

Contents:

• INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA
• GAY MARRIAGE INDIA
• GAY MARRIAGE DIA
• NEPAL URT REJECTS MARRIAGE REGISTRATN APPLITN OF GAY UPLE
• A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Argug agast legal sanctn to gay marriag, the centre yterday termed such requts as "mere urban elist views for social acceptance".

MARRIED TEXAS, GAY INDIAN UPLE SEEKS RIGHTS INDIA

"No Absolute Concept Of Man, Woman": Supreme Court In Gay Marriage HeargThe centre aga today opposed the Supreme Court hearg of requts seekg legal sanctn to same-sex marriag, statg that only the Parliament n ci on the creatn of a new social relatnship.

"No Absolute Concept Of Man, Woman": Supreme Court In Gay Marriage HeargThe centre aga today opposed the Supreme Court hearg of requts seekg legal sanctn to same-sex marriag, statg that only the Parliament n ci on the creatn of a new social Advote Mul Rohatgi tak the bench through a seri of judgments If you do not have full enjoyment of life you will not have digny. The people- ll them queer, gay- if they go to plac, people look at them.

A nstutn bench of the Supreme Court begs hearg the batch of petns seekg legal regnn for same-sex marriage bench hearg the petns pris Chief Jtice DY Chandrachud, Jtice Sanjay Kishan Kl, Jtice Ravdra Bhat, Jtice Hima Kohli, and Jtice PS Regnisg Gay Marriage Will Mean Virtual Judicial Rewrg Of Law: CentreA urt orr regnisg same-sex marriag would mean a virtual judicial rewrg of an entire branch of law, the centre argued yterday and said the urt mt rea om passg such "omnib orrs". Except no one else knew about the gay uple’s was 2008. Homosexualy was yet to ga a gree of acceptance eply nservative India, wh many gay upl facg stigma and isolatn.

GAY MARRIAGE INDIA

So Saxena and Kotia took their time, watchg om a distance how people’s acceptance of homosexualy was changg. 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. Three other gay upl have filed siar petns that will be heard by the untry’s top urt March.

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.

GAY MARRIAGE DIA

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. The cisn was seen as a landmark victory for gay rights, wh one judge sayg would “pave the way for a better future.

”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.

NEPAL URT REJECTS MARRIAGE REGISTRATN APPLITN OF GAY UPLE

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. Gay and lbian upl are not allowed to have children born wh the help of an Indian surrogate mother. 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.

Homosexualy has long rried a stigma India’s tradnal society, even though there has been a shift attus toward same-sex upl recent years. India now has openly gay celebri and some high-profile Bollywood films have alt wh gay issu. 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.

A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

We have always wrten about (homosexualy), talked about , and discsed , ” said Vana. Followg the crimalisatn of homosexualy 2018, several wr petns seekg legal regnn for same-sex marriage were filed at the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Kerala. And the landmark Navtej Sgh Johar se, the urt not only crimalised homosexualy but also asserted that the ‘fact that the LGBT persons nstute a “mcule actn” of the untry’s populatn nnot be a ground to prive them of their Fundamental Rights’ the recent Deepika Sgh v Central Admistrative Tribunal, the urt also regnised atypil faial relatnships, cludg queer relatnships.