{"id":164,"date":"2018-09-12T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:07:54","slug":"reflections-on-indias-lgbtq-rights-ruling-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on India&#8217;s LGBTQ Rights Ruling in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/indias-sodomy-ban-now-ruled-illegal-was-a-british-colonial-legacy-103052\">The Conversation<\/a> about India&#8217;s historic ruling in favor of LGBTQ rights!<\/p>\n<p>From<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/indias-sodomy-ban-now-ruled-illegal-was-a-british-colonial-legacy-103052\"><strong> India\u2019s sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial\u00a0legacy:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Indian Supreme Court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/wipolex\/en\/text.jsp?file_id=201592\">legalized homosexuality<\/a>, overturning a 157-year ban on consensual gay sex.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a nearly 500-page unanimous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.gov.in\/supremecourt\/2016\/14961\/14961_2016_Judgement_06-Sep-2018.pdf\">decision<\/a> issued on Sept. 6, India\u2019s highest court affirmed that \u201cwhenever the constitutional courts come across a situation of transgression or dereliction in the sphere of fundamental rights which are also the basic human rights of a section, howsoever small part of the society, then it is for the constitutional courts to ensure that constitutional morality prevails over social morality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gay rights advocates <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/news\/viewfinder-celebrating-indias-landmark-lgbt-victory\">worldwide<\/a> celebrated the legal victory, which came after nearly a decade of contentious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/12\/opinion\/indias-reversal-on-gay-rights.html\">court battles<\/a> against a <a href=\"https:\/\/factly.in\/tracing-the-history-of-ipc-section-377\/\">British colonial law criminalizing homosexual acts<\/a>&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my piece in The Conversation about India&#8217;s historic ruling in favor of LGBTQ rights! From India\u2019s sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial\u00a0legacy: &#8220;The Indian Supreme Court has legalized homosexuality, overturning a 157-year ban on consensual &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}