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Gay Rights

The Madras High Court judge who banned gay conversion therapy spoke of fighting his own biases

Judge Anand Venkatesh described his quest to tackle his ‘ignorance and prejudice’ about same-sex relationships.

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Jun 10, 2021 · 07:30 pm
China has a Three No’s policy on homosexuality: No approval, no disapproval and no promotion

While gay sex has been legal in the country since 1997, couples aren’t allowed to marry. Now, the LGBTQ+ community is ‘marrying’ using a legal loophole.

Xu Chen and Wilfred Wang, The Conversation
· Oct 07, 2019 · 11:30 pm
How a cake came to be at the centre of a legal row over gay rights in UK

The UK Supreme Court recently ruled in a case filed by a man whose request to have ‘support gay marriage’ written on a cake was turned down.

Jonathan Seglow, The Conversation
· Oct 13, 2018 · 08:30 pm

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