Law criminalizing homosexuality in former British colonies
Section 377 is a British colonial penal code that criminalized all sexual acts "against the order of nature". The law was used to prosecute people engaging in oral and anal sex along with homosexual activity. As per Supreme Court Judgement since 2018, the Indian Penal Code Section 377 is used to convict non-consensual sexual activities among homosexuals with a minimum of ten years imprisonment extended to life imprisonment. It has been used to criminalize third gender people, such as the apwint in Myanmar.[1] In 2018, then British Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged how the legacies of such British colonial anti-sodomy laws continues to persist today in the form of discrimination, violence, and even death.[2]
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^Rao, Rahul (2020). Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality. Oxford University Press. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9780190865535.
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Muslim. In 2013, the Supreme Court of India reinstated the controversial Section377 of the Indian Penal Code, which, among other things, criminalises homosexuality...
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revoked Section377 of the Indian Penal Code, an act which criminalised homosexual sex between adults. Gandhi had backed the repeal of Section377 of the...
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of the same sex under Section377 of the Indian Penal Code was clearly unconstitutional. The court, however, held that the section would apply to bestiality...
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