India's Pride marchers call for same-sex marriage rights

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 10, 2023 12:11 am

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people took part in the first Delhi Queer Pride march in three years on Sunday as pressure grows for legal recognition of same-sex marriage in India.

The South Asian's top court is due to hear in March a raft of petitions from gay couples seeking the same marital rights as heterosexual ones, five years after it struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex.

LOUD AND PROUD Gender rights activists and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community participate in the Delhi Queer Pride parade in India’s capital New Delhi on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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