Indian LGBTQ activists cheer the high court's decision that legalises gay sex without restriction in India for the first time since the British colonised the country. The ruling puts pressure on other South Asian nations which still take a hard line on gay rights. The Delhi High Court decriminalised gay sex in 2009, but the Supreme Court reinstated the ban in 2014 after an appeal by religious leaders. "This is the first step of the history of a lot of other countries that first decriminalised gay sex, allowed civil unions and then marriage," said Suri. "For the first time since independence the gay community in the country is experiencing freedom in the real sense," Gohil told AFP.

Source: Bangkok Post September 06, 2018 19:41 UTC