Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Rekha Basu: In India, absurd sex laws return

The world's largest constitutional democracy last week relapsed into being one of the most officially and deliberately homophobic. India's Supreme Court upheld a Victorian-era prohibition against gay sex, which calls for 10-year prison sentences for so-called "carnal intercourse against the order of nature." The court's decision to overturn a 2009 Delhi High Court decision and uphold Section 377 of the Indian penal code, which criminalizes gay sex, has brought shock and

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