Is there gay marriage India?

Contents:

• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• FAY KARMA’S BIG, GAY INDIAN WEDDG IS WHAT I’VE ALWAYS WANTED
• ‘FAY KARMA’ STAR AMR KAPAI: PLANNG A BIG, GAY INDIAN WEDDG IS ‘NOT EASY’
• GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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

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. They had even taken him to a Hdu fah healer who promised to rid the boy of his homosexualy — by any means possible. "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?

She answered their qutns about homosexualy. "I told the uncle that if he was so nvced the fah healer, then to ask the mystic to turn him gay, too, then heterosexual aga. Through floods of tears, he me out to her as gay.

" 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.

FAY KARMA’S BIG, GAY INDIAN WEDDG IS WHAT I’VE ALWAYS WANTED

Some of India's biggt silver-screen stars have played queer rol, cludg Rajkummar Rao, who played a gay police officer the 2022 film Badhaai Do, and Sonam Kapoor, who played a lbian 2019's Ek Ladki Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. In 2020, a Pew Rearch Center study reported that 37% of rponnts India said that "homosexualy should be accepted by society, " up om 15% 2014. REUTERS/Anhree FadnavisSummarySupreme Court to hear gay marriage se JanuaryFour gay upl say nied basic fundamental rightsModi ernment has opposed same-sex marriageCase seen as key tt for Modi ernmentNEW DELHI, Dec 19 (Rters) - Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such a historic verdict 2018, India's top urt crimalised homosexualy by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex.

‘FAY KARMA’ STAR AMR KAPAI: PLANNG A BIG, GAY INDIAN WEDDG IS ‘NOT EASY’

Dpe the 2018 lg, members of India's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny pla about a lack of acceptance and discrimatn agast gay people Indian activists say that while 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, they are still prived of legal backg for same-sex marriag, a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married three Supreme Court filgs seen by Rters, the upl say that whout legal regnn of beg married, they are nied rights such as those lked to medil nsent, pensns, adoptn or even simpler thgs like club memberships for upl. "In tth, they have no rights at all, " the filg four gay upl want a Supreme Court lg that modifi or terprets laws a way that allows same-genr marriag, the urt filgs is a sensive subject the socially nservative untry of 1.

4 billn people, where speakg openly about homosexualy is taboo for pleas have already triggered a bate on prime-time TV news and generated edorials newspapers whether the time has e for the world's largt mocracy to jo roughly three dozen untri where such marriag are Uned Stat this month approved legislatn that provis feral regnn to same-sex marriag a bid to further safeguard gay Indian Supreme Court s, which follow many lawsus filed lower urts where no cisn was reached, will be a key tt for Modi's Hdu natnalist ernment and his Monday, a feral lawmaker om Modi's party appealed to lleagu the upper hoe of parliament to oppose legal regnn of marriage between same-sex upl.

"Backg the upl are high-profile lawyers cludg one of India's former Attorney Generals and another unsel named Srabh Kirpal, who is openly gay and an terview last month acced Modi's ernment of layg his elevatn as a state judge due to his sexual and Modi's office did not rpond to a requt for ment on those remarks.

GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL

India's Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison but has yet to legalize same-sex marriag.

India crimalized gay sex five years ago Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy. After s of grassroots activism and tense lobbyg at policy levels, the Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018.

Sce the law India only regniz heterosexual marriag, children of gay upl lose out on legal regnn for both parents.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

A powerful right-wg figure has exprsed support for LGBTQ rights Sce there is no legal regnn of same-sex marriage, gay upl whose fai threaten them wh vlence bee they are opposed to gay relatnships have no protectn unr the law. Earlier this year, Bhagwat said that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. In December 2021, the Uttarakhand High Court orred a gay uple to be protected by the police.

In November 2019, the Punjab and Haryana High Court orred the police to protect a gay uple threatened by their fai. Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the most powerful Hdu natnalist anizatn, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, said an terview that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to.

As their ltle one grows, 's Am's hope that "we won't be talkg about gay upl like we do now. "We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " Adya adds. Season 3 of Fay Karma, a Miami-set seri followg a close-kn group of well-heeled Indian Amerins, nclud on Sunday night wh a Big Fat Gay Indian Weddg.