India Supreme Court to hear case seeking to legalize same-sex marriage

[Lourdes]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221125-india-s-top-court-to-weigh-same-sex-marriage-recognition

New Delhi (AFP) – India's top court decided Friday to proceed with a case weighing legal recognition of same-sex marriages, four years after the same institution struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex.

The case, brought by a gay couple who informally exchanged vows last year, could pave the way for India to become the second jurisdiction in Asia to recognise same-sex marriage after Taiwan.

Petitioners Abhay Dange and Supriyo Chakraborty told the New Indian Express newspaper after their wedding ceremony that they hoped "to live in a world with no closets". They are now asking the Supreme Court for the same marital rights as straight couples.

A bench led by chief justice Dhananjaya Chandrachud asked the government to file its response within a month.

Any court ruling in favour of the couple's petition would trump opposition from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration, which has resisted previous attempts to formally recognise same-sex relationships in lower courts.

[SnowLabrador]

Good to see that India's going in the opposite direction as we are.

[TDAS04]

A uniform civil code would be helpful.

[It's Perro Sanxe wot won it]

If the court rules in favor of this couple, a third of humanity will live under jurisdictions that allow same-sex marriage. Just twenty years ago only the Netherlands did so! The worldwide progress on marriage equality has been astonishing, even if there is still a long way to go.

[CumbrianLefty]

If it happens, will be in spite of Modi and the BJP. No surprise.

[Blue3]

India's supreme court once legalized gay sex, and it was then overturned a couple years later, and only recently over-overturned. So we'll see.

[PSOL]

I believe in my heart india will put the heaviest nail in the coffin yet, do it my love.