A Bad Day for Law and Love: writing 11-12-13
Write to us (prose, poetry, short, long) about what you went through when you learned about the Supreme Court’s Dec 11, 2013, judgement that rendered LGBT people in India criminals again.
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Write to us (prose, poetry, short, long) about what you went through when you learned about the Supreme Court’s Dec 11, 2013, judgement that rendered LGBT people in India criminals again.
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Sec 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) criminalizes same-sex behavior. In a huge setback to LGBT rights, The Supreme court of India on Dec 11th declared it is constitutional and can only be changed by the Indian parliament.
ToI article “Banker murdered by gay lovers” (Chennai ed. Oct 21, 2013) misleadingly reports young men sexually abused as children by adult man as “gay lovers”
“Marz, ya Lat”: in her Urdu short story Lihaf (The Quilt) written in the 1940s, Ismat Chugtai conceptualized same-sex desire as both medical condition and as excessive habit, notions that co-existed in the colonial India of her time.
Gujarat’s first LGBT Pride will be held in Surat on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Read post for details.