India’s Top Court Begins Hearing Same-Sex Marriage Case
The two women fought their families, survived beatings, put up with death threats and were forcibly separated before they could live together as a couple.
Now, they are fighting for their right to get married in India. “It will give us legal proof, and I can show it to my parents, who are still opposed to our relationship,” said Bhawna, who like her partner, Kajal, goes by one name.
On Tuesday, the couple, along with more than a dozen others, got their day in India’s Supreme Court, which began hearing arguments in a case to legalize same-sex marriage.
In recent years, the court has held up individual freedoms, including striking down a ban on consensual gay sex, granting rights to India’s marginalized transgender community and declaring privacy as a constitutional right of all Indians.
