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The Delhi High Court on Thursday legalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults by overturning a 149-year-old law which describes a same-sex relationship as an “unnatural offence”. Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence. The Indian media has hailed the ruling. More here, here, here, here.

Designer Wendell Rodricks, who celebrated his silver jubilee with his French partner last year, on why the court verdict isn’t just about gays. In the Indian Express:

I never ever thought of myself as a criminal. In fact quite frankly, I do not think about myself at all. I go about my work, enjoy traveling, mingle with friends who are from all walks of life and embrace life as a huge learning curve. Along the way, I learnt that I could be a criminal in the eyes of the law. A certain section in the Indian Penal Code was a dragon that could awaken from its slumber and put me in trouble.

People who talk against amending Section 377 have not even read the law. They call it a gay law which it isn’t. It pertains to all Indians, clubbing together paedophiles, rapists, gays and ordinary couples who indulge in “sex against the law of Nature”. That means that married couples who have oral sex, or anything other than what the missionaries ordained, are criminals. Even if they do this in the privacy of their bedrooms. More:

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