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India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday.

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INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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

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"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. 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.

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.

THIS INDIAN GAY UPLE SAID ‘I DO’ GIBRALTAR

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.

Except no one else knew about the gay uple’s was 2008.

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

Homosexualy was yet to ga a gree of acceptance eply nservative India, wh many gay upl facg stigma and isolatn. 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.

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