B-Town fights for gay rights
Homosexuals in India have always been vulnerable to crimes because, on approaching the police, they could find themselves booked under a 141-year-old law. Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code declares oral, anal and other non-procreative sex as being “against the order of nature”. So not only do homosexuals have to face persecution from the world, they have to constantly watch out for the law.
This vulnerability came shockingly to the fore when police recently crashed a private party on the ‘tip-off’ that homosexual activities would happen there. Police detained six people on the shocking crime of having stocked snacks, drinks and condoms!In a time when rapes and murders are going unsolved, we hear of a team of police officers planting spies, intercepting traffic and blocking roads to stop a private party!
Should laws pertaining to homosexuality be revised?
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