Ahead of the Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution Bench deciding the validity of same-sex marriages in India, the Indian Psychiatric Society on Sunday came out with a position statement in support of same-sex marriage, saying that LGBTQA spectrum individuals should be treated like all citizens of the country. The Indian Psychiatric Society’s position statement that homosexuality is not an illness had …
Mumbai: On Monday, during a PIL hearing for legalizing gay marriages in India, the solicitor general, Tushar Mehta, argued that “our laws, our legal system, our society, and our values do not recognize marriage, which is a sacrament, between same-sex couples”. “Many members of the LGBTQA+ community want the same marriage rights that heterosexual couples enjoy and denying same-sex couples …
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