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Gay rights activists in India rally, demand end to discrimination
NEW DELHI — Gay rights activists sang songs and carried rainbow-colored flags while marching to the beat of traditional Indian drums Sunday, as they paraded through India’s capital to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays in the deeply conservative country.
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Same-sex marriage was a leading international concern throughout 2011
In terms of the news — international reporting — this was the year of same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage (or ‘marriage equality’ or ‘gay marriage’) was a leading international concern — whether in the West or raised as a chimeric threat, particularly in Africa.
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Police detain 133 in raid on ‘gay’ party in Mumbai citing indecent behavior
Police in the northern Mumbai suburb of Oshiwara staged a raid on a “gay” party at a beach house in the popular Versova Beach area early Sunday arresting 133 persons, including transgender Bollywood film star Bobby Darling on charges of “indecent behavior.”
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India’s health minister calls homosexuality a ‘disease’ that is ‘spreading’
India’s health minister on Monday called homosexuality is a “disease” that is “spreading fast” throughout the country.
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India gay couple succumbs to family pressure, separates one day after wedding
A same-sex couple who married at a public ceremony in India on Thursday amidst fanfare, have separated, reportedly due to pressure from their families. Dressed in a sleeveless white wedding gown, Nikhil Sharma married his companion of six years, Sandip Soibam, in Manipur’s first public gay wedding since the Delhi High Court decriminalized homosexuality last […]