Setback for gay community, which argued that penal code undermined their rights by failing to protect sexual preferences.
India’s supreme court has refused to hear a petition challenging a law criminalising gay sex, in a setback for activists battling in the country’s courts to get the ban (...)
In 1895, during the trial of Oscar Wilde, the German socialist Eduard Bernstein wrote a few articles in the German Social Democratic press on the issue. While confused by today’s standards, Bernstein made a few cogent points. On the view that same sex relations were unnatural, Bernstein (...)
India: ‘Section 377 must be scrapped’ - Muslim progressive voices
December 16, 2013
URGENT: Press release
‘Section 377 must be scrapped’
We, the undersigned, are shocked by the Supreme Court verdict which, instead of affirming the fundamental constitutional principle of non‐discrimination (...)
For Immediate Release 14th December, 2013
Apex Court verdict re-criminalizing consensual same sex relationships unconstitutional and inhuman
NAPM demands legal recognition of the natural right to life and love of lakhs of gender diverse individuals
New Delhi, December 14 : As lakhs of (...)
New Delhi, Dec. 13: BJP president Rajnath Singh today said his party “unambiguously” endorsed the re-criminalisation of gay sex — the first conclusive statement from the party that makes the legislative option difficult for the UPA.
“We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we (...)
Protesters gather in Delhi to denounce ruling overturning high court’s decision in 2009 to decriminalise homosexual relations.
First there was surprise, then shock, then anger. By nightfall thousands across India had taken to the streets in spontaneous protests against an unexpected supreme (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Supreme Court verdict on Sec 377 (11 Dec 2013)
We are deeply disappointed at the decision of the Supreme Court in Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation. The decision by overturning the historic Delhi High Court judgment which recognized that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, (...)
We are deeply disappointed at the decision of the Supreme Court in Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation. The decision by overturning the historic Delhi High Court judgment which recognized that LGBT persons are full citizens of India, attempts to stem the tide of history. By overturning the (...)
The Peoples’ Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses deep disappointment at the Supreme Court ruling making homosexual relations between consenting adults an offence. In an affirmation of the rights of Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) persons, the Delhi High Court in a landmark (...)
The decriminalisation of homosexuality in India is allowing writers to be out and proud.
A transgender Sikh comes to terms with a vagina, a Maharashtrian motorcycling champion tells of her hidden sexuality, and an unwitting lesbian is drawn into the Mumbai underworld.
Until three years ago, (...)
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