Indians protest gay sex ruling

Hundreds of gay rights activists have gathered in the Indian capital to protest against a decision by India’s top court to uphold a law that criminalises gay sex.

Hundreds of gay rights activists have gathered in the Indian capital to protest against a decision by India’s top court to uphold a law that criminalises gay sex.

India’s supreme court last week reversed a landmark 2009 lower court order that had decriminalised gay sex. The country’s gay community is demanding that the government take immediate action to remove the colonial-era law banning same-sex relations.

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