On 17 October 2023, the Supreme Court rejected the plea for queer persons' right to marry. A year later, a discussion on lawyer Rohin Bhatt’s book discloses what went wrong.
Revised forensic medicine curriculum had reinstated topics like classifying sodomy & lesbianism as 'unnatural sexual offences', and definition of virginity, defloration removed in 2022.
Petition filed by four members of queer community lays out arguments against SC’s 17 October verdict which held that right to marry was not fundamental.
Both advocated for right to form ‘unions’ for non-heterosexual couples, State's recognition of 'entitlements that flow from such a relationship' & adoption rights for queer couples.
The dance form was created in the 1980s by the Latino and Black queer community in New York. It has transcended space and time to become a symbol of expression and resistance.
The festival was organised on campus over Friday, Saturday and Sunday by the institute’s queer resource group, Saathi, and had ‘40-50 people present at every programme’.
Following in footsteps of its Delhi & Chennai counterparts, IIT-Bombay to organise 'Rangavali', an effort to make campus 'a safe space for students of all genders & sexual identities'.
The Malayali trans community says that trans-friendly doctors exist in the state. But they all work at private hospitals and are difficult to hold accountable.
Conversion therapy is a practice that queer people are subjected to in order to ‘cure them’. NMC told Madras HC it had issued a notification banning the practice last month.
Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.
Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector.
In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
The issue is that India does not have a common civil code. So this is not about one law being changed, it is one per religion, plus special marriage act. And if it is religion based what is the authority of the Supreme Court of any country to decide what is allowed for a religion. Hence the dilemma. In order to do this, there should be a uniform civil code that gives the courts the authority to decide on this or issues like this in a denomination non specific manner
The fact that there are no comments here shows that this isn’t a subject too many people care deeply about, as opposed to the west, where it has been co-opted by one side of their cuture wars. I think the most sensible thing would be to have a civil union kind of thing which disregards sex and orientation. But can the court mandate that it exist to safeguard queer rights under India’s constitution? Governments may just ignore the court, as they have before. The time for this idea has just not come yet in India.
The issue is that India does not have a common civil code. So this is not about one law being changed, it is one per religion, plus special marriage act. And if it is religion based what is the authority of the Supreme Court of any country to decide what is allowed for a religion. Hence the dilemma. In order to do this, there should be a uniform civil code that gives the courts the authority to decide on this or issues like this in a denomination non specific manner
The fact that there are no comments here shows that this isn’t a subject too many people care deeply about, as opposed to the west, where it has been co-opted by one side of their cuture wars. I think the most sensible thing would be to have a civil union kind of thing which disregards sex and orientation. But can the court mandate that it exist to safeguard queer rights under India’s constitution? Governments may just ignore the court, as they have before. The time for this idea has just not come yet in India.