'We're not criminals anymore': Indians revel in the repeal of a 157-year-old law banning gay sex
by Shashank Bengali And Niha Masih, Los Angeles Times
Sep 06, 2018
4 minutes
NEW DELHI - She read in the morning paper that the decision was coming, so the 24-year-old master's student skipped classes Thursday and came to the Supreme Court building flanked by two friends. As they heard the court's landmark ruling that overturned India's colonial-era ban on same-sex intercourse, the young women hugged and one cried.
"We're not criminals anymore," she said.
But as dozens of activists celebrated on the lawns outside the court, the young woman wearing a short haircut and gold-rimmed spectacles remained in a corner with her friends, shooing news photographers away. She lives at home and
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