India decriminalized homosexuality

India legalizes homosexual relations after 157 years of repression

GAYLES.TV.- The failure of Supreme Court of India It has been historic: homosexuality in the Asian country will no longer be a crime. Unanimously, homosexuality is decriminalized and an end to a prohibition of the British colonial era dating from nineteenth century. The court decision declared that the Article 377 that criminalized consensual adult sexual acts in private «violates the 14, 15, 19 and 21 articles of the Constitution»Which refer to the exercise of self-determination, discrimination, dignity and freedoms of citizens. Yesterday the country was filled with freedom and color.

Dipak Misra, president of the Supreme Court, I affirm that "the law had become a weapon of harassment against the community LGBT»And quoted Goethe when reading part of the ruling: «I am who I am. So accept me as is«. The previous legislation established that the “carnal access against nature with a man, woman or animal, will be punished with life prison, or with imprisonment for a term or that may be extended to 10 years and a fine”. The new ruling dictates that “Sexual relations between homosexual adults in private does not constitute an offense " and adds that any standard that pursues these practices is "Discriminatory and a violation of constitutional principles".

La International Association of Gays and Lesbians (ILGA) figure in about 1.500 the people who were arrested in India under section 377 in 2015. The homosexual activist Bharat Bhushan, one of the organizers of the gay parade of New Delhi, underlined the importance of the road ahead: «is a new beginning, (the LGBT community) can have a normal life, now it can demand more, to begin with, more human rights«.