Delhi HC issues notice on plea seeking separate public toilets for transgender people

The petition submitted that absence of designated toilets violated the right to privacy of transgender people and put them at a risk of sexual harassment.

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· Jul 26, 2021 · 08:03 pm

Same-sex marriages: Delhi HC issues notice to Centre on petition seeking legal recognition

The petitioners argued that laws in India must recognise marriages between consenting adults ‘irrespective of the gender, sex and sexual orientation’.

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· Jul 06, 2021 · 01:39 pm

Interview: ‘The role of mental health systems in pathologising homosexuality cannot be discounted’

A conversation with Vidya Dinakaran, the clinical psychologist who counselled Justice NA Venkatesh of the Madras High Court on the recent LGBTQ+ case.

Smitha Nair

· Jun 18, 2021 · 11:30 am

Same-sex marriage pleas: ‘Nobody is dying because they don’t have certificates,’ Centre tells HC

The court adjourned the hearing till July 6 even as lawyers argued that the case affected the daily lives of lakhs of citizens.

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· May 24, 2021 · 01:22 pm

Failure to recognise same-sex marriage is ‘unconstitutional’, says Japan court in landmark verdict

The LGBTQ community in Japan has welcomed the ruling.

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· Mar 17, 2021 · 02:18 pm

Centre opposes same-sex marriage, says it ‘can’t be compared to Indian family unit’

In its response to a batch of petitions, the government told the Delhi High Court that same-sex marriage was not a fundamental right in the country.

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· Feb 25, 2021 · 05:31 pm

Allahabad HC reinstates man fired in Bulandshahr due to his sexual orientation

The court said that treating sexual orientation as an offence interfered with the person’s right to privacy.

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· Feb 10, 2021 · 11:05 am

‘Cannot deny legitimate right,’ says Kerala HC on Centre’s objection to allowing transgenders in NCC

The court was hearing a plea filed by a Kerala University student against her exclusion from NCC for being a transwoman.

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· Nov 13, 2020 · 12:16 pm

Pope Francis’ support for same-sex unions doesn’t change Catholic doctrine – and yet it matters

Some Catholics, including the pope, are thinking imaginatively about reconciling the church with the modern world.

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· Oct 23, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Kerala Bishops’ Council says no change in stand on same-sex marriage after Pope’s remarks

The Catholic body called reports of Pope Francis justifying same-sex marriages as ‘baseless’ and ‘misleading’.

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· Oct 23, 2020 · 11:14 am

Pope Francis backs civil union laws for same-sex couples, says ‘they are children of God’

The pope added that ‘nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it’.

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· Oct 21, 2020 · 10:32 pm

Same-sex marriage: Delhi HC seeks Centre’s response on two petitions, says ‘laws are gender neutral’

The petitioners said that the Special Marriage Act and the Foreign Marriage Act should be interpreted to also apply to the marriages of same-sex couples.

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· Oct 14, 2020 · 03:52 pm