New Delhi Gay Pride: India's LGBT community hit capital's streets for Pride parade
by The Daily Eye Team December 15 2014, 4:07 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 46 secsHundreds of members of India’s gay and lesbian community marched in Delhi on Sunday in the capital’s first Gay Pride parade since homosexuality was recriminalized last year. The march saw a sea of colour make its way through the city’s centre, with marchers carrying balloons, rainbow flags and signs denouncing the law that was reintroduced in December 2013 Others danced while chanting “freedom” and “I’m gay, that’s OK”, in what was Delhi’s seventh ever Delhi Queer Pride parade. The law making gay sex illegal was reintroduced last year and saw those caught involved in homosexual acts running the risk of spending up to 10 years in prison. Following the decision, India’s homosexual community argued that this decision had made them second-class citizens in the country and added to the day-to-day discrimination they faced.