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Topic: Homosexuality

Supreme Court junks Centre’s plea to defer hearing on petitions against Article 377

PTI -
In 2013, the court had overturned a historic Delhi HC order decriminalising consensual sex between homosexuals.

Supreme Court to hear tomorrow pleas seeking to decriminalise homosexuality

Ritika Jain -
The bench is going to hear two pleas filed by six noted personalities seeking to quash the criminalizing homosexuality.

Educational qualification of Indian politicians should matter, not sexual orientation

Falgu Mukati -
The only thing that will help our society accept a queer politician is awareness and time.

The homophobic, anti-abortion preacher making the rounds of South India’s science colleges

Sandhya Ramesh -
Abhishek Clifford, who heads the NGO Rescue 108 is believed to be of British origin and claims to be known by many names.

Meet the Gujarati woman helping gay couples live the arranged marriage dream

Nandita Singh -
While homosexuality is criminalised, it turns out that there is no law in India regarding marriage between people of the same sex.

How Ranveer Singh conquered the nepotistic world of Bollywood

Divya Narayanan -
From being an outsider in the film industry to being excited to see who his on-screen bisexual lover will be, actor Ranveer Singh talks about it all.

I only wish homosexuals across India would be able to come out: Vikram Seth

Rohini Swamy -
Author hails SC judgment on the right to privacy, especially the part that says sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy.

Why don’t Indians have a problem when heterosexuals have oral sex—even though 377 bans it?

Shreya Ila Anasuya -
Remember that Section 377 doesn’t criminalise ‘gay sex’ — it is the product of a homophobic mindset that targets queer people.

In Parliament, Shashi Tharoor’s valiant fight to change section 377

Apurva Vishwanath -
The Congress MP had tried to slip in a change through an amendment to the government’s bill to repeal 104 old laws, but Lok Sabha rejected it in winter session.

Supreme Court had decided to revisit section 377 two years ago as well

Apurva Vishwanath -
A bench headed by then chief justice T.S. Thakur had also agreed to hear a curative writ petition in June 2016, seeking to decriminalise homosexuality.
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