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India Has Decriminalized Gay Sex!

India Has Decriminalized Gay Sex

Well it’s about damn time!
Possibly the world’s longest-running gay rights battle has now been won, as the nation of India on Thursday morning officially decriminalized gay sex throughout the country. YES!!!!!
Related: Disney Alum Garrett Clayton Comes Out As Gay
The Supreme Court of India had been hearing testimony since July on a 157-year-old colonial-era law called Section 377, which forbid any sexual activity other than heterosexual sex as being “against the order of nature.”
That law is history now, though, as the five-judge panel on the country’s highest court delivered A UNANIMOUS VERDICT through four concurrent judgments about how Section 377 was arbitrary, and prevented equal rights for those in the LGBT community.
As you might expect, celebrations have erupted all over India — both in the streets, and on social media (below):


https://twitter.com/fayedsouza/status/1037559682326581248


Amazing!!
And so great that India finally took the long-overdue step of making this right!!
Such great news today!!!
[Image via WENN.]

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Sep 06, 2018 07:48am PDT