Activists in India find hope in U.S. sodomy ruling
The effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's Texas sodomy law ruling are widespread, in fact they're being felt all the way in India where activists are challenging their own anti-sodomy law in the Delhi High Court. "Judges read papers, lawyers read papers, people read papers," Vikram says. "The steady
drip-drip of tolerance on gay issues will end up making a difference." India's controversial sodomy law makes sodomy or any kind of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal" punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Pacific News
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