• Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Indian court legalises gay sex

People belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community celebrate after the Supreme Court’s verdict of decriminalizing gay sex and revocation of the Section 377 law, at an NGO in Mumbai, India

By: Eastern Eye Staff

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday (6) struck down a ban on gay sex after a decades-old campaign against a colonial-era law used to hold back LGBT rights. Members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups held tearful celebrations in cities across the South Asian nation of 1.25 billion people as the historic verdict was read out. “The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community,” said chief justice Dipak Misra as he quashed the cornerstone of Section 377, a law introduced by British rulers in 1861. “Any discrimination on the basis of sexuality amounts to a violation…

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