Gay Rights

FIFA 2022 World Cup: Transgender and gay fans 'welcome' but they need to respect our customs, says Qatar

A top Qatari World Cup official has said that transgender and gay fans would be welcomed to the 2022 tournament, but stressed that visitors would have to respect Qatari customs.

Botswana HC decriminalises homosexuality, overturns colonial-era law punishing gay sex up to seven years in prison

Botswana’s ruling comes after Kenya’s high court upheld its law banning gay sex, keeping same sex relations punishable by 14 years in jail, drawing strong criticism from the United Nations and rights activists.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte sparks outrage after claiming 'beautiful women cured him of being gay'

Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is notorious for his foul-mouthed speeches that include insults, threats to perceived enemies and references to rape that he casts as jokes.

Mumbai Pride 2019: First march post-Section 377 verdict sees city's queer community, allies celebrate

Mumbai witnessed its 14th Pride Parade on Saturday, 2 February 2019. It was the city's largest pride march yet, also its first after the September 2018 judgment decriminalising homosexuality.

UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet cites Indian Supreme Court's ruling on homosexuality, urges more countries to amend laws

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, during the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual and Intersex (LGBTI) Core Group event — 'Violence against LGBTI Individuals: Extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions' — on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly here on Tuesday, said that change is happening around the world.

After Section 377 verdict in India, Singapore DJ files court challenge against law banning gay sex

Buoyed by the recent landmark ruling on homosexuality in India, a Singaporean DJ filed a court challenge against a law in the city state banning gay sex.

Uttar Pradesh and Kerala top list of cases registered under Section 377 of Indian Penal Code

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), as many as 2,195 gay sex cases were registered under Section 377 in 2016, 1,347 in 2015 and 1,148 cases in 2014.

Section 377 verdict: SC restores inclusiveness, liberates LGBTQ community from 'societal pariah and dereliction'

While the 2009 judgment should be lauded for ensuring the ‘inclusiveness’, it is Thursday’s judgment by the highest court of the land that established individual liberty as the bulwark of democracy and made the widest possible interpretation of ‘morality’ and ‘freedom’.

Section 377 verdict: Country's first transgender college principal calls it a 'new dawn' for LGBTQ community

The Section 377 judgment would enable every community member to claim his/her rightful place in the society, she told PTI.

Sec 377 hearing in Supreme Court: Long battle for individual freedom, mainstream discussion nears conclusion

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra will pronounce on Thursday the verdict on a batch of petitions seeking decriminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1861.