Tag: India
UAE bans Indian gay rom-com «Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan»
Bollywood gay romantic comedy was touted as India’s first gay male romantic comedy.
India: Transgender Bill Raises Rights Concerns
A proposed law to protect the rights of transgender people in India falls short of the country’s human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said today.
Rainbow Riots & Sushant Divgikar – «Love Is Love»
The international LGBTQ organisation Rainbow Riots’ founder, Swedish musician and activist Petter Wallenberg has been in Mumbai for nearly two years, writing and producing music featuring India’s first openly gay, lesbian and trans singers, rappers and dancers.
Reaction: World’s most significant gay law reform
Indian Supreme Court ruling decriminalising homosexuality.
India: Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law
India’s landmark Supreme Court decision that criminalising consensual same-sex conduct is unconstitutional is a major victory for human rights and the LGBT people’s rights to privacy and non-discrimination in the world’s second most populous country, Human Rights Watch said today.
India’s Colonial-Area Ban On Same-Sex Relations Is Repealed
Today the Supreme Court of India made the historic decision to repeal the ban on same-sex relations. The colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code made sexual behaviour «against the order of nature» illegal and punishable by imprisonment and served as a model for similar laws across the British Colonial Empire.