Marriage equality ruling looms over Pride celebrations in India
The LGBTQ and intersex community around the world is celebrating Pride month; a month for celebrating identity, raising awareness about equal rights and promoting inclusion.
This year’s Pride month has brought some setbacks and some success globally. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on May 29 signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act with a death penalty provision for “aggravated homosexuality,” but the LGBTQ and intersex community is looking towards India, the world’s largest democracy, with great expectation the country could extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.
During this Pride month, the Indian LGBTQ and intersex community is hopeful because the Supreme Court’s marriage equality arguments have ended and a ruling is pending.
India in 2018 decriminalized homosexuality, but same-sex marriage remains illegal. The Supreme Court on April 18 began hearing marriage equality cases, and it reserved the decision after the intense hearing.
