Tag: Same-sex marriage

The survey also examined how attitudes of people vary by geography, demographic factors, political ideology and religion

This piece aims to explicate for the reader the juridical and political position of the institution of marriage. It further locates within these legal and political trends the case for same-sex marriage. The write-up dwells on the various instances where the State has intervened in the institution of marriage and how these interventions, accompanied by the laws and jurisprudence, lay the foundation for the current 18 petitions in the Supreme Court. This short article will also go on to explicate the understanding of same-sex marriage following the expansion of the Special Marriage Act of 1954.

Stigma and exclusion associated with identifying as LGBTQIA+ must be tackled legally and socially.

The strident opposition by the union govt, BCI, and “retired judges” suggest prejudice, with the goal being preservation of the heteronormative hegemony in Indian society

A Representative of Current Parents, Representative of Future Generations, Historian and finally, a common men’s mouthpiece – A Satire

As marriage equality hearings in the Supreme Court of India reveal a sharp rightward and patriarchial shift in the Indian state, during ongoing debates on the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, a Madras HC judgement from 2019 assumes significance. The reason is that the court in this case read the word ‘bride’ in the Hindu marriage Act, 1955 to include a transgender woman

The obdurate rejection of this right by the union of India throttles the very concept of constitutional morality in evolving jurisprudence

She wrote a letter to MP Sushil Modi after he opposed same sex marriages in his Parliament speech

HC refuses to accept the affidavit, applicant points to ‘objectionable comments’

Multiple petitions filed about different aspects of the recognition of wider rights of the LGBTQIA community