Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published July 27, 2009.
The gay rights movement in India won a resounding victory earlier this month, when an Indian Court overturned a colonial-era law that defined gay sex as a criminal act.
While the ruling has been praised by the gay community in India and rights groups across the world, it is facing stiff resistance within the country from religious and nationalist groups. The ruling has been challenged in the Supreme Court and is the focus of a heated debate across the country. FSRN´s Bismillah Geelani has more from New Delhi.
