It’s party time for the gay community in the city. The Delhi High Court judgment that legalised homosexual acts among consenting adults has been termed as historic.
Friday , 3 July '09
Even as the verdict on Section 377 is being hailed by the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in the city, dissenting voices are preparing to rise and drown out the cheers.Friday , 3 July '09
They lived in the shadow of Section 377, always careful, ever watchful, and only danced with abandon at a couple of “gay-friendly” nightclubs that would let the two men enter as a couple on some nights.Friday , 3 July '09
Drums kept up the tempo as painted bodies danced in the streets around Vakola market, rainbow streamers waving ecstatically through the air.Friday , 3 July '09
The breakthrough judgment of the Delhi High Court on homosexuality was announced on Thursday Morning, but Anindya Hajra spent a sleepless night.Friday , 3 July '09
In the well-guarded confines of a man-made normal world, we either cringe in denial or crack ‘queer’ jokes. Just like we’ll never get over Sardar jokes or mad Bushisms.
Friday , 3 July '09
Expanding the scope of an Indian citizen’s rights by equating “sexual orientation” with the Constitutionally protected identities of gender, caste, religion and race...Friday , 3 July '09
Ironically, a court ruling that underlined Nehru, inclusion, discrimination, fundamental rights...Friday , 3 July '09
During the hearing, the High Court found two contradictory stands taken by the Government of India...Friday , 3 July '09
The controversial law on homosexuality goes back 149 years when Lord Macaulay, who chaired the First Law Commission...Friday , 3 July '09
Vikram Seth is saying “Thank God” in Salisbury, England. The writer has just read the 105-page judgment of the Delhi High Court...Friday , 3 July '09
You seem to have gathered much evidence that homosexuality is not a disease...
Friday , 3 July '09
There come moments in the life of a nation when it has to confront its deepest prejudices and fears in the mirror of its constitutional morality.Friday , 3 July '09
A day after the Delhi High Court’s ruling decriminalising homosexual relationship between two consenting adults...
Thursday , 2 July '09
With Delhi HC legalising gay sex, India became the 127th country in the world to decriminalise homosexuality while 80 nations still consider it as an offence.
Thursday , 2 July '09
In a breakthrough judgement, the Delhi High Court legalised gay sex among consenting adults holding that the law making it a criminal offence violates fundamental rights.
Thursday , 2 July '09
Homosexuality is not a disease or a disorder and is just another expression of human sexuality, said Bench of Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar.
Thursday , 2 July '09
Congress was cautious in its reaction to the judgement of the Delhi High Court legalising gay sex among consenting adults.
Thursday , 2 July '09
A chronology of the eight year-long legal proceedings which ended with the Delhi High Court legalising gay sex among consenting adults.Wednesday , 1 July '09
The Catholic Church in Kerala is up in arms against the proposal of the Congress-led Central Government to de-criminalise homosexuality....