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Following up on a story I wrote about Monday, the Delhi High Court has ruled to decriminalize consensual gay sex, noting that the "crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution. ... "This legal remnant of British
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Even as hundreds of people from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender community in India has welcomed the verdict of the Delhi High Court, which on Thursday, decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults, overturning colonial-era legislation
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"This legal remnant of British colonialism has been used to deprive people of their basic rights for too long," Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, ...
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So it has stuck down Section 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) as far as it criminalizes gay sex among consenting adults. Homosexuality will therefore remain a crime for non-consensual and non-vaginal sex. ...
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That is how the film and fashion fraternities have hailed Thursday's Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising gay sex. Hailing India as great, they said the verdict would give more independence to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT) ....
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There are states in the United States that have made marriage between homosexuals as having the same legal sanctity as that between a man and a woman, there are other states where this is a matter of huge debate and controversy (with the Catholic and