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India Reconsidering Homosexuality Ban

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May decriminalize gay sex.

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India’s supreme court will meet to reconsider a law that criminalizes gay sex. The panel of judges ruled in 2013 to uphold the country’s ban on homosexuality, a move that triggered widespread campaigns to change that law. In agreeing to hear the case, judges called the issue a “matter of constitutional importance.”

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