LGBT

“They have gone back to their families after securing the job. Seeing them placed in respectable and well-paying jobs in a city as big as Bengaluru, their parents have become more accepting. What can matter more than that?”

“My only qualification for writing this book is that I am a human being,” wrote Shakuntala Devi in 1977, calling for “full and complete acceptance, not just tolerance and sympathy.”

For the first time, Indians will celebrate love irrespective of gender and other differences. This Valentine's Day, #LoveMovesForward.

About a month ago, in what can only be described as a liberating order, the Apex Court de-fanged the British era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which deemed that gay sex is a punishable offence. With the passing of the order, people from the LGBTQ+ community in India are now under no legal threat.

“We want to show society that same-sex couples can also lead normal lives.”

The injustice meted out to the LGBTQ community and the roller coaster ride of this movement needs to be understood from the elongated slow march it has undertaken.

"When I was 20, I dropped out of college for a semester amidst a deep bout of depression and repression. That summer, in my childhood bedroom, I finally realised what had plagued me for so long—I liked girls."

"Sexuality is a part of your identity and not your identity. Everyone takes their own time to accept themselves thereafter its a journey of self-awareness and owning your personality traits."

"Section 377 is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary."

“I am what I am. So take me as I am. No one can escape from their individuality”, CJI Dipak Misra declared in the Supreme Court, striking down Section 377 as illegal and arbitrary.