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Leading Indian psychiatrist: Homosexuality is unnatural, gays should seek treatment
MUMBAI – The former head of the national India Psychiatric Society described homosexuality as “unnatural” and that “homosexuals uncomfortable with their sexuality should seek psychiatric help.”
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Global LGBT rights: Anti-gay laws, attitudes hold sway in many regions
While gay-rights activists celebrate gains in much of the world, their setbacks have been equally far-flung, and often sweeping in scope. Globally, the contrasts are striking… at least 76 countries retain laws criminalizing gay sex, including five where it’s punishable by death.
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Activists say India ruling criminalizing homosexuality hurts HIV fight
NEW DELHI — Gay rights activists and health workers in India are warning that a new Supreme Court ruling criminalizing homosexuality will undo years of progress in fighting AIDS by driving gay and transgender people underground.
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India government asks high court to review its decision on anti-gay law
NEW DELHI — India’s government asked the country’s Supreme Court on Friday to review a decision in which it upheld a colonial-era law that bans homosexual acts and makes them punishable by up to a decade in prison.
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India political party leader says gay U.S. diplomats should be ‘arrested, punished’
NEW DELHI, India — The leader of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that India should “arrest and punish” U.S. diplomats in India who have “same sex companions” as same-sex acts is illegal in the country.
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Indian gay activists protest top court’s ruling that criminalizes gay sex
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of gay rights activists gathered in India’s capital and other cities across the country on Sunday to protest a decision by India’s top court to uphold a law that criminalizes gay sex.
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Archbishop of Mumbai: Catholic church ‘never considered gay people criminals’
MUMBAI — The Archbishop of Mumbai and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, said Wednesday that the Church has “never considered gay people criminals.”
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India’s court ruling a dreadful new judicial low for international LGBT human rights
Wednesday’s Indian Supreme Court decision reversing a lower court and re-criminalizing same-sex sexual intimacy marks a dreadful new judicial low for international LGBT human rights. Even as we in the U.S. enjoy ever increasing visibility and protections for our community, life for many of our brothers and sisters in other countries is going from bad to intolerable. It is repellent that extremist religious opposition worldwide is such a corrosive impediment to basic human rights…
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India’s law minister: Government likely to review anti-gay sex law
NEW DELHI — India’s law minister said Thursday that the government has not abandoned efforts to make homosexuality legal, and that the country must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning same-sex relations.
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Top Indian court upholds colonial-era law criminalizing homosexuality
NEW DELHI — A colonial-era law criminalizing homosexuality will remain in effect in India, a top court said Wednesday, dealing a blow to gay activists who have argued for years for the chance to live openly in India’s deeply conservative society.