Hundreds of activists on Sunday staged
a parade in New Delhi calling for the repeal of an Indian law that
criminalizes gay sex.
The law, Section 377 of the Penal Code,
a holdover from British colonial rule, makes gay sex punishable by up
to 10 years in prison.
In 2013, India's highest court
overturned a lower court's 2009 finding that intercourse between two
consenting same-sex adults is legal, effectively reinstating the ban.
India's Supreme Court said that only lawmakers could change Section
377.
Parliament, however, has failed to act.
“There has been a lot of change, and
we have gone back also,” Saurav Jain, an architect who attended the
parade, told
the AP.
Activist Rituparna Borah told the AP
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government does not support LGBT
rights.
“We have yet to have an inclusive
society,” she said.