India: Don't repeal Section 377: Homosexuals
TimesOfIndiaVasundhara Sanger
8/11/2008
Excerpt: A day after India's 61st Independence Day on 16 August this
year, a Queer Azaadi (Independence) March will be organised by the
queer community (homosexuals, lesbians, transgender, bisexual and all
those marginalised by society that labels them as 'strange') in Mumbai
to state that while the rest of India had achieved independence from
the British on 15 August1947, queer Indians were still bound by a
British Raj law (Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, introduced in
1860) and Victorian puritanism.
