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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicSection 377

Topic: Section 377

For or against? No one knows Modi government’s stand on decriminalising homosexuality

Govt hasn't stated its position so far even though some BJP members have made statements on Section 377 in the past.

Who are the 6 gay people who have challenged the SC ruling criminalising homosexuality

From a chef, Bharatanatyam exponent to a journalist and a writer-historian, meet the motley crew helming the fight against Section 377.

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

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

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

Behind Grindr India lies a world of sexual assualt, rape and blackmail

Caught between hope of love and Section 377, victims of sexual abuse, extortion on Grindr rather keep mum than go to the police.

Who would have thought being gay is as Indian as the IIT?

20 IITians have petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of an informal LGBT group. One can just imagine the court saying ‘Et tu IIT? Then fall, 377’.

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

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

India not the only nation where colonial-era anti-gay law still exists

36 of the 52 Commonwealth countries share the remnants of Britain’s legalised homophobia in the form of Section 377 in their penal codes.

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

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

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.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.