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The Delhi High Court is hearing a PIL that seeks marriage rights for the gay community under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.
New Delhi: Same-sex marriages are neither a part of “our culture” nor a part of the law, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Delhi High Court Monday, opposing a petition (...)
Orissa HC also extends protection to the ’woman partner’ in the relationship under the domestic violence law to secure her rights in case of a separation.
New Delhi: In a first, the Orissa High Court has allowed a same-sex couple to have a live-in relationship, and also extended protection of (...)
Assam becomes the seventh state in the country to have such a welfare board.
Guwahati: A six-member transgender welfare board has been set up by the Assam government and members from the state’s transgender community have now been incorporated into the welfare board. This was confirmed by a (...)
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019. These two legislations, which have been bought into Parliament this Winter Session, are rarely spoken of in the same breath. But they should be. Both these Bills have been adopted by the Parliament (...)
Trans community rejects new law
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, was moved in the Rajya Sabha by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot on November 20, globally recognised as Transgender Day of Remembrance for all those murdered as a result of (...)
The new version of the Transgender Rights Bill is undeniably an improvement over its predecessors. It has a comparatively expansive definition of the term ‘transgender’, and has done away with problematic provisions requiring a screening process and criminalising begging. Nevertheless, the new (...)
Indian diplomats are hesitating between cautious promotion of LGBT rights at the UN level, or continuing their abstention on the issue when it is raised in international forums. More pressure from LGBT groups and other progressives could push the country towards a more constructive position in (...)
Though LGBT voter numbers are unlikely to change the electoral outcome, CPI(M) candidate Kaninika Bose (Ghosh) made time to meet members of the queer community.
Kolkata: Around twenty people have assembled on a hot Sunday afternoon inside the Lokayat Samaj Trust auditorium at Ripon Street in (...)
A landmark ruling legalised gay sex in the country in 2018, yet the LGBT community still face stigma and violence
When India’s supreme court announced it was legalising gay sex, people hugged in twos and threes on the lawns outside the Delhi courthouse. They draped themselves in rainbow flags (...)
Art work by Katerina Gribkoff
In four separate and combined judgments on September 6, 2018, in the Navtej Singh Johar case a constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India ruled that the section 377 of Indian Penal Code (a colonial era provision from 1860) was discriminatory to the extent (...)
Radical Socialist welcomes the Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 IPC. This is an important victory for the LGBTIQH community in India. We do not see the victory as a gift from the judiciary, but as the result of decades of battles, on the ground, in grassroots organising, as well as in (...)
No epic war – and the victorious struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in India is certainly one – is complete without a cast of characters who bring to the battlefield qualities such as heroism and cowardice, innocence and guile, loyalty and treachery.
Homosexual relations were criminalised in India for (...)
Cheers from campaigners as colonial-era law is struck down after decades of uncertainty
India’s supreme court has decriminalised homosexual sex in a landmark judgment for gay rights.
A five-judge bench of the country’s highest court ruled on Thursday that a 160-year old law banning sex “against (...)
Celebrities among those speaking out against 1861 law and how it ruins their lives
As the Indian supreme court begins a landmark hearing on homosexuality on Tuesday, gay men and women and human rights activists hope they are finally on the last leg of a 20-year legal battle to decriminalise (...)
Public consultations with the community were held, however, the government dropped some of the vital inputs of prominent community groups from the final draft.
The Supreme Court in NALSA vs Union of India (April 2014) guaranteed a plethora of rights, including the right to self-identity, (...)
Colonial legislations, such as the Telangana Eunuchs Act, 1919, continue to criminalise queer persons.
On February 27, 2018, the Andhra Pradesh high court issued notice to the state of Telangana on a writ petition filed by three transgender activists challenging the Telangana Eunuchs Act of (...)
“People think there are like ten queer people in Ahmedabad, but we want to show there is a whole community.”
On February 18, Ahmedabad will host a locally-organised, official queer pride parade, which some are describing as the city’s first ever pride parade. The event is organised by QueerAbad, (...)
Indian cities, such as New Delhi and Mumbai, are on a par with Bangkok and Manila when it comes to businesses that are open to the gay community.
The latest Open For Business report, released in Davos earlier this week, reflects the diversity in engagement and the stark contrasts with which (...)
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 (...)
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