Tag: sexual orientation

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

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