Cosmopolitan India

“A YEAR AFTER SECTION 377 WAS SCRAPPED…

“That I don’t hold hands in public unfailingly irks my partner. Last year, on 6th September, when the LGBTQIA+ Indians ‘awoke to life and freedom’ after the Supreme Court struck down Section 377, thus, decriminalising consensual sex between same-sex adults, my phone beeped with a teasing message: ‘Now, will you hold my hand?’.

Holding hands could be an excellent place to start, now that I have the permission from the highest law of the land. But it’s a difficult

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