2015: Understanding the Impact of the Supreme Court judgment on Section 377 on LGBT communities
Section 377 of The Indian Penal Code (IPC Sec. 377) criminalized consensual anal sex by deeming it unnatural and “against the order of nature”. The British introduced this law in 1860, based on Victorian morals, to criminalize any “not procreative” sex. On July 2, 2009, The Delhi High Court read down IPC Sec. 377 on grounds that it violated Articles 21, 14 and 15 of The Indian Constitution which grants every citizen right to life” and “equal opportunity, regardless [...]