Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. Section 377 makes criminals out of consenting homosexual adults, or indeed anyone who engages in oral or anal sex. It is the legal abomination that deprives a section of adult Indian citizens of constitutional protections on the basis of their sexual activity; humiliates and denies them for loving in the way they love. It is sanction for police harassment, and provides a cover for discrimination in families, building societies, workplaces, medical and state institutions.

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