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India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex in historic ruling

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NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Thursday overturned a 157-year-old law criminalizing gay sex in a landmark victory for gay rights in the world’s largest democracy.    


A panel of five judges issued a unanimous judgment striking down the provision and affirming the right to equality and dignity.


“Respect for individual choice is the essence of liberty,” Dipak Misra, India’s chief justice, told a packed courtroom. “This freedom can only be fulfilled when each of us realizes that the LGBT community possesses equal rights.”


Activists have struggled for more than a decade to invalidate Section 377 of the Indian penal code, a provision that dates to the colonial era. The law prohibited consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.” 


The Washington Post, September 6, 2018

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5 years ago

Sitting here laughing at the old fashioned language.... "Carnal intercourse against the order of nature" hahahahahaha!!