homosexuality as an unnatural act and is punishable with life imprisonment. It implies that people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender are criminals.I completely agree with the above statement. I believe sexual preference is one's personal choice and state has no business in interfering in it. This law may have been passed due to religious compulsions of british in those days and this explains such harsh punishment but this kind of primitive laws have no place in present society. There are few irrational laws in IPC as this, which have been inherited from the British, they need to be revised or scrapped.
They also say that what is considered 'against the order of nature' is actually just how some people express their love or sexuality.
Wednesday 17 August, 2005
Section 377 of IPC
There was a protest in Mumbai by human rights activists calling for a ban on section 377 of IPC. According to News source we have inherited this law from British in 1860 and we continue it even after British themselves had discarded it. As per the news item, this law terms:
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Most corporates have support groups for gays and lesbians now-a-days !
I don't know whether we have such groups in India but USA they have lot of support groups.
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