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Posted: July 5th, 2009 | Author: NB | Filed under: Blog | Tags: Article 377, christian, gay, Hindu, Homosexuality, India, legality, morality, Muslim, religion, Sunil Gupta | No Comments »
SOURCE: CNN-IBN
The Delhi High Court has reinterpreted a 149-year old colonial law and held that a homosexual in India is no longer a criminal. In a historic judgement the court held that “Section 377 of the Indian penal Code insofar as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private violates personal freedom and liberty.
So does the attaining of legal sexual freedom by homosexuals mark progress and social reform in India, or is the court upholding values that the majority of Indians simply do not identify with?
CNN-IBN debates on issue on a special show Gay and Indian with renowned Indo-Canadian photographer, HIV positive and gay, Sunil Gupta, gay rights activist and lawyer Aditya Bandhopadhyay, actor Samir Soni, Editor, Manushi Madhu Kishwar, Delhi Catholic Archdiocese spokesperson Dominic Emmanuel and All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Kamal Farooqui.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009 | Author: NB | Filed under: Blog | Tags: gay, Homosexuality, Islam, Karachi, Lahore, Lesbian, Muslim, Pakistan, Politics, Punjab, sexuality, Sufism | No Comments »
A new magazine aims to spark a debate about sexuality in the Muslim country.
Andrew Buncombe reports from Lahore
Friday, 3 April
SOURCE: The Independent
Pakistan’s first magazine about sexuality, Chay, is just three issues old yet already it is creating ripples within this conservative, buttoned-down and overwhelmingly Muslim society. And if those behind the new publication, currently only available online, fulfil their dream of producing a print edition, then those ripples may even turn to waves.
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