TIME speaks to the lead petitioners in a case that could be a historic win for LGBTQ+ people in India
in 2020 found that 37% of people believed that same-sex marriage should be accepted in the country, up from 15% in 2014.
Nevertheless, the Indian government preemptively urged the Supreme Court to reject all pleas challenging the current legal framework, saying that there was a “legitimate state interest” in limiting the legal recognition “to marriage/union/relation as being heterosexual in nature,” according to the legal filing“Living together as partners and having a sexual relationship by same-sex individuals… is not comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife, and children,” the...
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