Khanna added: “Having said that, the queer community will continue to move forward in solidarity and with resilience, as we always have.” “But what we got today was a deeply divided judgment that was unclear about what the law could offer as relief to the challenges of our unequal and diverse queer lives.” “The hearings and the months thereafter had given us a lot of hope: that we were in the highest court of the country, and that our struggles were being heard and deliberated upon deeply,” she said. But while acceptance of homosexuality is growing, Indian society still remains largely conservative and there was resistance to opening up marriage to same-sex couples, who still face rampant discrimination and harassment in society.Īnkita Khanna, who was one of the petitioners in the case, said she was “deeply disappointed”.
In 2018 the supreme court scrapped a colonial-era law banning homosexuality in India.
