India Decriminalizes Homosexuality
July 13, 2009 by James
A petition 8 years in the making finally resulted in the High Court of Delhi legalizing consensual sexual relations between gay couples. This ruling overturned a law, existing for almost 150 years in the Commonwealth country, on the basis that such a prohibition contravened India’s Constitution, protecting the fundamental rights of Indian citizens.
“We have finally entered into the 21st Century” exclaimed Anjali Gopalan, director of the Naz foundation, the gay rights lobby which launched the petition 8 years ago. This petition argued that the archaic law, equating homosexuality to paedophilia and residing with animals, was not only giving justification to rampant police homophobia, but ultimately leading to the vastly increased suicide rate existing amongst the Indian LGBT community.
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