Tag: LGBT

Why India’s LGBT movement fizzled out after Supreme Court ‘read down’ Section 377

Source:- counterview.net In United Kingdom, four schools have joined the Parkfield Community School at Birmingham to halt equity lessons on ‘Diversity and LGBT issues’ following complaints by parents. Earlier, five Birmingham schools suspended teaching the award winning ‘No Outsiders’ equality and LGBT rights programme, run by the Leigh Trust. The project taught tolerance of diverse groups, including

The world’s biggest democracy just decriminalised sex between gay couples

Source – qz.com The supreme court of India today (Sept. 06) scrapped section 377 ofthe Indian penal code that criminalised homosexuality. A bench consisting of chief justice Dipak Misra and justices DY Chandrachud, AM Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra, and Rohinton Fali Nariman, in separate but concurring judgments, ruled that India’s LGBTQ community has the same sexual rights as everyone else. The supreme

IITians move Supreme Court for scrapping of Section 377

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Days after hotelier Keshav Suri, who runs the Lalit group of hotels, approached the Supreme Court for decriminalising gay sex, a batch of 20 current and former students of Indian Institutes of Technology has filed a petition in court saying criminalisation of sexual orientation resulted in a sense of shame, loss of self-esteem and