Divorced from 377, gay couple in 'fearless' union

[cosmicone]

Source: Times of India

CHANDIGARH: This could just be the first real indication of a persecuted community's sudden faith in the law safeguarding their lives and loves post Article 377, and the beginning of a string of same-sex marriages in the country.

In perhaps the first gay marriage after the Delhi High Court in a landmark judgment read down Article 377, a law that made even consensual sex between adult homosexuals a punishable offence, two 18-year-old men, brushing aside protests from family and jeers from society, went to a temple near their house in Chandigarh and “got hitched for life”.

As a motley crowd of gays
and a few well-wishers cheered the newly married couple, Amrit held his partner Jeeta close and said their union was possible only because of the rethink on the anti-homosexual section of IPC.

“I was so delighted after the court's verdict that we both decided to get married,” said Jeeta, who fell in love with Amrit three months ago when he stayed in the latter's house in Kajheri, Chandigarh, as a tenant. “We had been facing discrimination in public, at the work place and at home. But things may look up for people like us now.”

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Gay-couple-get-married-in-temple/articleshow/4750966.cms

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Before this thread is turned into an India-bashing fest over outsourcing, I would like to congratulate India for a winning tradition of tolerance and coexistence.

This will be good for both the gay members and the straight members of society by removing one more issue that divides humans.

and yes, some might say it is not credible because it is from Times of India because it is a third-world rag and make it comparable to the National Inquirer but the story is positive nevertheless.

[PDJane]

1. Those 'third world rags' are sometimes the ones to watch.....

And I'm glad that they are feeling positive enough to do something with such a positive outcome for them.

[Fearless]

2. Rock on! K&R!

:yourock:

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Good for India...doubt this marriage lasts - they have known each other three months!

18 year old kids! Maybe they decided to get married just in case their rights get stripped away from them later as they were in Cali.

[InfiniteThoughts]

4. Is it legal ?

Sorry for the dampener but i don't think it is legal ... i wish it was made legal but these folks couldn't have married under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 , Christian Marriage Act 1872, Muslim Marriage Act as these clearly define Marriage as action between male and female.

However, i wish the couple all happiness. Maybe your act will the catalyst for reform of marriage act. May you get all the benefits & rights that we currently enjoy, that you deserve as much as us.

[bertman]

5. I'm glad the court decided to stand for the rights of gay people as humans deserving

equal rights under the law.

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