India Legalizes Being Gay, In Related News, I'm Taking A Vacation To India
Source - India’s top court has legalized gay sex in the world’s second-most populous country in a landmark decision that partially struck down a 158-year-old colonial-era law.
After a decades-long legal battle, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has diluted Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was first enacted in 1860 and ranks gay sex alongside bestiality as a crime “against the order of nature.”
Reading out the judgment in a packed courtroom on Thursday, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said the law violated the right to equality enshrined in the constitution and was being used as a ‘weapon of discrimination’.
The Supreme Court’s decision will have a wide-ranging economic and social impact on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer citizens across the country of 1.3 billion people. The ruling will prevent discrimination of gay employees and their partners in India, where activists say members of the LGBTQ community are singled out and blackmailed.
What a week for India. First the tower, which I blogged about yesterday, and now the legalization of gay sex. Don’t get too excited though, they only legalized first base. They still have to legalize second base (blow jobs), third base (kissing), and fourth base (actually getting to know each other’s names.) We also don’t know how long it will take for the law to go into effect, so hold off on plane tickets if you were thinking about going to get some desi dick. Regardless, congrats to India for finally taking the leap into the twenty-first century. Just in time for #asseatinSZN too. Although I don’t know if the same rules apply in India because of the heat. Jungle swass is a year-round epidemic in the land of tolerance (ironic) and temples. All they have to do now is fix literally everything else about the country and they’ll be good to go.
I doubt India will become the next gay vacation hot spot like Mykonos, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they saw an increase in travelers. If they were smart they’d start marketing to the LGBT community considering the amount of disposable income they could shovel into the economy. They could raise the price of Vodka sodas from six rupees to six hundred and no one would bat an eye. Whatever the case, it’s a big week for India. The times, they are a changing.