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Violent attacks on transgender women end in two more tragic deaths
In India, police officers hurled abuse at a transgender woman and told her to “go die” before she was found engulfed in flames.
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Hundreds march in India to demand LGBT rights
The parade highlighted the continuing discrimination India’s LGBT community faces and demanded the repeal of a law criminalizing homosexual acts.
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India plans surrogacy ban for foreigners and gay couples
Single parents would also be banned under a proposed law intended to protect poor women from exploitation.
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Obama to welcome antigay leader of India
Narendra Modi refused to allow a gay American envoy enter his country, but he’s being welcomed here next week
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Sir Ian McKellen: ‘India needs to grow up’ about gays
“It is appalling and ironical that India would use a colonial law to oppress its homosexuals.”
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Married Man Insists He’s Pregnant After Having Gay Sex
A married father of two from India told his family about his secret sex life in the worst way possible.
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Will India’s Supreme Court make homosexuality legal again?
India’s gay community has had their civil rights upheld and then away by the Supreme Court. Today, the court will review their 2013 decision that re-criminalized gay sex.
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Teenager, bullied for being gay, sets himself on fire
A 15-year-old boy is in the hospital recovering from severe self-inflicted burns after being teased and harassed for being gay.
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LGBT rights activists march in New Delhi parade
Organizers said that while the pride parade celebrated the gains India’s LGBT community has made in recent years, they also wanted to highlight the continuing discrimination it faces.
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41 writers return Indian award, cite climate of intolerance
For example: In 2011, the state of Gujarat banned Joseph Lelyveld’s biography on Mohandas K. Gandhi, after reviews suggested Gandhi had a homosexual relationship.