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Top cases on the United States Supreme Court's docketThe U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing significant cases. These cases cover voting rights, presidential authority, immigration policies, and g...
Same sex marriage verdict: Supreme Court empathises but falls shortIndia+ has come a long way since a scornful verdict designed to drive people back into the closet. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, for all it...
The rainbow flag flies with pride in IndiaIn countries like Middle East, former Soviet Union and Africa, rights are curtailed & change seems unlikely.
High Court’s 1995 ruling offers hope to Jammu and Kashmir's LGBT communityLegal opinion is divided on whether the high court needs to make an order that the Section in Ranbir Penal Code.
Section 377: The papers and the fight that finally got us herePaper in books and files lugged in capacious canvas bags and wheeled metal trolleys that legal interns keep pulling through the corridors o...
Supreme Court verdict on validity of criminalising consensual gay sex likely tomorrowA five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had reserved its verdict on July 17 after hearing various stakeholders,...
Section 377: Government leaves decision to the wisdom of the Supreme CourtSubmitting affidavit in the apex court, ASG Tushar Mehta told the five-judge constitution bench that the Centre will leave the matter of co...
Supreme Court seeks government’s views on plea against Section 377The government has so far been reluctant to take a firm position on the case -- either before the Delhi High Court or the Supreme Court.
View: Strike down Section 377 as it has no place in today's IndiaWith most of the world accepting LGBT people into regular aspects of life, India is an increasingly awkward fit with the mostly fervently r...
Indian student wins US fellowship for LGBT researchShakthi Nataraj, who grew up in Chennai has been awarded with 'The Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship.
US monitors gay rights situation in India, equal rights for LGBT personsWith about 80 countries worldwide criminalising homosexuality, LGBT persons around the world remain vulnerable to arbitrary arrest and hara...
Gay sex: SC agrees to consider curative petition in open courtThe SC had on December 11, 2013 set aside the Delhi HC judgement decriminalising gay sex and put the onus on the Parliament for amending th...
- Gohil to represent LGBT members from Gujarat in Delhi meeting
"We will discuss and chalk out our strategies as to how to fight for their (LGBT) cause," Gohil told reporters at airport here tonight.
Why Supreme Court's verdict on Section 377 is wrongSC has actually told the LGBT community that they are second-class citizens; they cannot exercise freedom expressing the core of their pers...
Companies won’t junk inclusive LGBT policy after SC rulingIndia Inc's diversity programmes involving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are unlikely to be affected after th...
SC ruling on homosexuality: There is still room for reviewAmong the repercussions of SC's ruling is that HIV/AIDS patients among LGBT persons may not any longer be able to access public health faci...
SC ruling on homosexuality: Steps by India Inc to end discrimination may be hitThe top court pronounced that gay sex is illegal, overturning a 2009 Delhi High Court judgement that had decriminalised homosexuality.
Opposes any action that criminalise consensual same sex: US'LGBT rights are human rights. We call on all governments to advance equality for LGBT individuals around the world," State Department spok...
SC ruling on homosexuality: Curious case that sets India back to Victorian daysWhy would a judge with no fear of red lights suddenly have reservations with rainbow flags, the symbol of the LGBT rights movement?
Gay activists shocked with with SC verdict, a "black day"Calling it a "black day' for the LGBT community, gay activists vowed to carry on the fight.