Inspired by a high
court decision that decriminalized consensual gay sex in New
Delhi last month, thousands took to the streets of
Mumbai on Sunday to celebrate growing freedoms in the largest
LGBT pride parade in India, reports
Agence France-Presse
.
The annual Queer Azadi
March Gay Parade Mumbai drew participants who contrasted the
jubilant mood with previous years when the focus of the event
was protest.
"The ball has
started rolling and now it's only going to get
better," Kumar Iyer, a gay makeup artist, told AFP.
In July, the Delhi high
court ruled that a British colonial-era ban on sodomy was
unconstitutional and violated individual rights in the
conservative country. The ruling, which applies only to the New
Delhi area, is being challenged by opponents in India's
supreme court, which is scheduled to deliver a
decision about decriminalizing sodomy nationwide in
September.
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