Decriminalisation of Section 377, 2018

In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on 6 September 2018 decriminalised homosexuality. The five-judge SC bench’s decision to make gay sex legal has restored the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) community members’ faith in the Indian judicial system.

• The Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality between consenting adults by declaring Section 377, the penal provision which criminalised gay sex, as “manifestly arbitrary”.