SC 2018 Arguments – media
We would like to archive media coverage of the Sec 377 trial in the Supreme Court as completely as possible. If you find some article missing, please do let us know. We would also like to state that inclusion of an article in this page does not imply endorsement of its views by Orinam.
Editorials and Opinions in the media
- The Hindu: Section 377 and beyond
- Economic Times: Will Supreme Court now fulfil its responsibility as guardians of the Constitution?
- The Hindu: A redemptive moment
- Scroll: Rape laws: Why the Supreme Court must read down Section 377 – but not strike it down in its entirety
- The Wire: Modi Govt to SC: Stick to Reviewing 377, Don’t Look at Other Rights for LGBT Community
- The Hindu: Unnatural section
- The Wire: Section 377: A Call to Conscience
- Hindustan Times: SC to begin hearing Section 377 petitions today: ‘minuscule fraction’ stands up for its dignity
- OpIndia: Today is indeed a historic day in the long fight for the rights of the LGBT community
Articles in the media
- July 18, 2018 and after
- India Today: Independence Day Special: Pride & Prejudice – Vivek Divan
- Times of India: We’ll strike down any law that violates rights, says SC
- The Hindu:
Accept gay relationships, says SC judge - Telegraph: SC: Will scrap gay law if it violates rights
- India Times: As #Section377 Is Likely To Be Scrapped, Queer Muslims Gear Up To Explore Their Faith & Identity
- The Wire: At Supreme Court, All Three Religious Groups Backing Section 377 Are Christian
- Quartz: “Not an aberration but a variation”: What India’s supreme court judges have said about homosexuality
- Daily Pioneer:Validity of Sec 377 shall remain intact: SC
- July 17, 2018
- First Post: Supreme Court reserves judgment on pleas challenging constitutional validity of Section 377
- National Herald: Section 377: Apex court reserves verdict on consensual same sex relations
- NDTV: Can’t Wait For “Majoritarian Government” To Act: Top Court On Section 377
- Times of India: Supreme Court reserves verdict on Section 377
- Economic Times: Homosexual relationships do not lead to STDs like AIDS: SC
- Economic Times: Court’s duty to strike down law if it violates fundamental right: Supreme Court
- NDTV: Can’t Wait For “Majoritarian Government” To Act: Top Court On Section 377
- July 14-16, 2018
- Times of India: Homosexuals in city battle social stigma, health issues
- DNA: Section 377 debate: A natural trap LGBTQ fall for voluntarily
- The Hindu: How the LGBTQ rights movement in India gained momentum
- Times of India: Rainbow-makers from Gujarat
- Independent UK: India on brink of biggest gay rights victory as Supreme Court prepares to rule on gay sex ban
- Indian Express: Beyond Section 377
- Times of India: Reconsidering Section 377 is a welcome move: LGBT
- NDTV: “Injurious To Health”: Muslim Law Board Member’s Shocking Take On Gay Sex
- Gaylaxy: Section 377 and Modi Government’s Poker Face – Court Should Call the Government’s Bluff
- Indian Express: Give all love the power to speak its name
- India Legal Live:
Section 377: Somewhere Over the Rainbow … - Times of India: Sexual minorities demand freedom from fear of ‘section 377’
- Sunday Guardian: Physician, heal thyself
- Economic Times: How Trinidad and Tobago played a key role in India’s ongoing LGBT hearing
- Indian Express: Section 377: ‘When I came out, my parents took me to a psychiatrist… today my father called in a shaking voice’
- July 13, 2018
- The Hindu: Indu Malhotra, lone woman judge on Bench, makes a strong case against Section 377
- NDTV: Won’t Oppose Scrapping Homosexuality Ban, Says Muslim Law Board
- Economic Times: Section 377: Sooner or later, the government will have to deal with homosexual lives
- The Hindu: ‘Stop seeing it as mental disorder’
- The Hindu: SC defends govt. stand on Sec. 377
- Indian Express: Muslim Personal Law Board will not contest if SC scraps Section 377
- Daily O: Fight against Section 377 is about dignity, reducing it to ‘gay sex’ is unfortunate
- Down to Earth: ‘Section 377’s repeal no silver bullet for India’s AIDS problem’
- Jagran Josh: Once criminality under section 377 goes, discrimination against LGBTQ will go: SC
- The Print: Section 377: Words of Supreme Court judges that have sparked hope in India’s homosexuals
- The Print: How Arun Jaitley persuaded Narendra Modi to soften his stand on homosexuality in India
- Free Press Journal: Why does most of Bollywood remain silent when it comes to Section 377 and LGBT rights, questions Onir
- Times of India: Section 377 verdict to be decided on law, not majority view
- Deccan Chronicle: Gay stigma has to go, says Supreme Court
- Indian Express: Being gay is variation, not an aberration: Supreme Court signal on Section 377
- One India: Section 377: Here is what the lone woman judge on the SC Bench had to say
- July 12, 2018
- She the People: Meet The Woman Fighting Section 377: Menaka Guruswamy
- News Bytes: These arguments made in favor of Section 377 are appalling
- Telegraph: Delhi loses nerve on gay sex
- National Herald: Menaka Guruswamy: LGBT Indians deserve protection of their court, their constitution, their country
- The Hindu: Homosexuality not an illness: Indian Psychiatric Society
- Times of India: Constitution for equality, but Section 377 denies the right
- India Today: Supreme Court on Section 377: LGBT individuals are forced to marry opposite sex
- Hindustan Times: ‘Section 377 validates violence against LGBTQ community’
- Indian Express: SC on Section 377: On Day 3, key observations on LGBTQ rights
- Scroll: Section 377 hearing: Homosexuality not an aberration but a variation, says Supreme Court
- Business Standard: No discrimination against LGBTs once Section 377 declared unconstitutional: SC
- Money Control: Will Right to Privacy judgment influence SC verdict on Section 377?
- Inuth: India’s Sex Life Is Still Tied To A 16th-Century Bed
- Economic Times: Section 377: Day 3 of hearing concludes, next hearing on Tuesday, July 17
- Outlook: Once Criminality Under Sec 377 Goes, Stigma Against LGBTQ Will Too: Supreme Court
- Indian Express: SC hearing on Sec 377 LIVE: Proceedings end for the day, will resume on Tuesday
- Business Standard: Discrimination against gays will go if criminality of section 377 is removed: SC
- India Today: Supreme Court on Section 377: LGBT individuals are forced to marry opposite sex
- News 18: Keep Religion Out of Section 377 Debate, Centre Urges SC During Hearing on Gay Sex Law
- First Post: Section 377 Supreme Court hearing Day 3: SC shouldn’t have re-criminalised IPC section in 2013, argues Shyam Divan
- The Hindu: Fall of Sec. 377 will embolden LGBTQ people: CJI
- July 11, 2018
- The Hindu: Section 377: Change in centre’s stand a huge step, say gay rights activists
- Scroll: Why it doesn’t matter if LGBT people are ‘born that way’
- NDTV: “Try Men, Will Be Fun”: Living With Section 377, Stigma In Small Towns
- The News Minute: No stand on Section 377, Centre tells SC: but dont rule on marriage, ASG adds
- Times of India: ‘We don’t want 2 gay men holding hands walking on Marine Drive to be arested’, says SC on Section 377
- Indian Express: Right to sexual orientation not a fundamental right, right to choose sexual partner is: Supreme Court
- Scroll: Why the Centre wants Supreme Court to stick only to sexual rights of LGBTQ community
- The Print: Gay Modi fans can finally shut the liberals up if Section 377 is decriminalised
- India Times: Seven Weird Reason People Gave To Prove That Homosexuality Should Not Be Legalised In India
- DNA:
Section 377: Nakuul Mehta defends LGBTQ community with grace, here’s how - Times of India: SC hearing on Section 377: Who said what
- News 18: SC Hearing on Section 377: Justice to Indian LGBT Long Overdue, Says Celina Jaitly
- Times of India: Section 377 about freedom, not sex: Shashi Tharoor raps BJP
- The Hindu: Fall of Section 377 will embolden LGBTQ community: CJI Dipak Misra
- Asian Age: CJI Dipak Misra hints in favour of decriminalisation of Section 377>
- The Hindu: Section 377: Change in centre’s stand a huge step, say gay rights activists
- NDTV: ‘Try Men, Will Be Fun”: Living With Section 377, Stigma In Small Towns
- Money Control: SC hearing on Section 377: What happened in court today
- The Print: Section 377 exposes BJP and Congress’ doublespeak on homosexuality
- India Today: Section 377 hearing: This is what Centre told Supreme Court on decriminalising gay sex
- ANI: Section 377 arbitrary, unconstitutional: lawyer Menaka Guruswamy
- FirstPost: Section 377 Supreme Court hearing: Centre defers to ‘wisdom of court’; Menaka Guruswamy says IPC section violates Article 15
- IndiaTV: We leave validity of Section 377 to wisdom of Court: Centre to Supreme Court
- The Economic Times: Section 377: Govt submits affidavit in SC, leaves the issue to court’s wisdom
NDTV: Is Gay Sex A Crime? Centre Says “Leave It To Wisdom Of Supreme Court” - Hindustan Times:Section 377, Islam form a double bind for queer Muslims
- TimesNow: Section 377 Supreme Court hearing: ‘Homosexual conduct between two adults not against order of nature’
- Free Press Journal: Section 377: Homosexuality a danger to national security, says BJP leader Subramanian Swamy
- July 10, 2018
- The Hindu: Section 377: Partner can be from the same sex, says Justice Chandrachud
- Gaylaxy Magazine: Modi Government May Oppose Scrapping of Section 377, Reports NDTV
- Times of India:SC judges differ on scope of examining Section 377 of IPC
- Indian Express: What is Section 377 of the IPC?
- Economic Times: Gay sex unnatural, should not be celebrated: Subramanian Swamy
- Times of India: On Day 1, SC sets rapid pace for hearing on Section 377
- The Economic Times: Section 377: I’m not appearing in case as the centre has different stand, says K. K. Venugopal, Attorney General of India
- Deccan Herald: Sec 377 a curb on human rights: SC
- The Print: For or against? No one knows Modi government’s stand on decriminalising homosexuality
- FirstPost: Subramanian Swamy’s homophobic remarks will drag BJP down, even as party tries to walk a fine line on Section 377
- HuffingtonPost India: India’s Queer Community Has Fought A Long Battle Against Sec 377 And It’s Supreme Court’s Turn To Do The Right Thing
- National Herald: Section 377: Modi Govt has to spell out stand as SC refuses adjournment
- Economic Times: Supreme Court to resume hearing on Section 377 on Wednesday
- July 9, 2018
- DNA: Homosexuality against Hindutva, we need to find its ‘cure’, says Subramanian Swamy as SC begins hearing on Section 377
- First Post: Section 377 Supreme Court hearing updates: IPC section eclipsed by privacy verdict, must be struck down, says lawyer
- First Post: As SC hears pleas against Section 377, Indian Psychiatric Society says homosexuality is a sexual variation, not mental illness
- Economic Times: Centre’s plea to defer hearing on Section 377 rejected
- The Print: Who are the 6 gay people who have challenged the SC ruling criminalising homosexuality
- Times of India: Homosexuality not a crime, says Indian Psychiatry Society
- Hindu: Constitution Bench to start hearing pleas against Section 377 IPC today
- Times of India: Supreme Court refuses to delay tomorrow’s Section 377 hearing rejects Centre’s plea for more time to file
- Times of India: Gender activist files plea in SC against Section 377, cites religion relics and texts
- DNA: Section 377: Supreme Court to hear pleas on homosexuality from today
- Scroll: Supreme Court to begin hearing pleas challenging law that criminalises homosexuality
- The Wire: In the Fight Against 377, Queer Politics Needs to Move Beyond Privacy