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India's gay community scrambling after court decision recriminalises homosexuality
Andrew Buncombe Author Biography
Delhi
Sunday 23 February 2014
Back in 2009, Lesley Esteves was dancing in the streets after judges in Delhi decriminalised homosexuality. When the Delhi High Court suspended the draconian Section 377 of the Indian penal code which dated from the days of British rule, India?s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community thought there was no turning back.
Five years on the euphoria has gone. In December, the country?s highest court overturned the lower court?s ruling, once again making gay sex a crime punishable by up to ten years in jail and putting tens of millions of Indians at risk of prosecution or harassment. Last month, that court ? which had said gay people in India were just a ?minuscule minority? ? upheld its decision against an appeal and said it was up to the government to change the law.
But there is little chance for that...
India's gay community scrambling after court decision recriminalises homosexuality
Andrew Buncombe Author Biography
Delhi
Sunday 23 February 2014
Back in 2009, Lesley Esteves was dancing in the streets after judges in Delhi decriminalised homosexuality. When the Delhi High Court suspended the draconian Section 377 of the Indian penal code which dated from the days of British rule, India?s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community thought there was no turning back.
Five years on the euphoria has gone. In December, the country?s highest court overturned the lower court?s ruling, once again making gay sex a crime punishable by up to ten years in jail and putting tens of millions of Indians at risk of prosecution or harassment. Last month, that court ? which had said gay people in India were just a ?minuscule minority? ? upheld its decision against an appeal and said it was up to the government to change the law.
But there is little chance for that...