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13 February 2013
India: Police raid gay party and arrest 22 men 6 Police in Mumbai have raided a bungalow where a gay party was being held and booked 22 men for indecent behaviour and lacking permissions to hold a party.
26 January 2013
India: Report declares that ‘all sexual identities deserve protection’ 10 A committee lead by the former Chief Justice of India has declared that all sexual identities are deserving of protection, and has called for education about LGBT people in schools.
18 January 2013
India: Visa regulations block gay surrogacy to foreigners 6 The Indian Home ministry has circulated rules to embassies which prevent unmarried or gay people travelling to become surrogate parents.
4 December 2012
Norway: Princess took secret India trip to care for gay palace employee’s newborn twins 15 Norway's Crown Princess secretly travelled to India to care for infant twins born to her gay friend, and employee's surrogate mother, after his travel visa was delayed.
25 November 2012
India: Gay pride parade takes place in New Delhi 5 Hundreds of LGBT activists in New Delhi have marched in a Pride parade.
25 April 2012
India: Man arrested for allegedly murdering friend who ‘forced him into a gay relationship’ 7 Police in New Delhi have arrested a 20-year-old man, identified only as Wasim, who is accused of murdering a friend who he claimed continually forced him into a homosexual relationship.
9 April 2012
India: Gay couple get married, but in uncertain terms 6 A gay couple who were married according to Hindu rites, and had their marriage registered in Uttar Pradesh last month, have fled home, as their marriage has been discovered to be registered under the Hindu Marriage Act, which does not permit same-sex unions.
29 March 2012
Police in Delhi shut down gay photography exhibition 16 A photographic exhibition celebrating gay life which opened in Delhi last week has been closed by the police following an anonymous complaint that its content was obscene.
27 March 2012
Indian Supreme Court reserves verdict on anti-gay petitions 1 The Supreme Court of India has reserved a verdict concerning a batch of appeals that challenged the Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults.
24 March 2012
India’s attorney-general blames Victorian Britain for anti-gay laws 77 In an apparent change of heart from the position it adopted three years ago, the Indian government has said that homosexuality was tolerated in pre-colonial India, and it was only the British who imposed their Victorian values of morality on what was a largely liberal land.
28 February 2012
India: Supreme Court rebukes ministers for conflicting gay views 5 Supreme Court judges hearing the case for reintroducing a ban on gay sex in India have warned the government for making contradictory statements about homosexuality.
16 February 2012
India: Supreme Court hears arguments for anti-gay law 22 A challenge of the decision to decriminalise homosexuality in India has begun at the country's Supreme Court this week.
29 July 2011
Indian lesbian couple win police protection after death threats 14 A lesbian couple in India have been granted 24-hour police protection after family members allegedly threatened to kill them.
26 July 2011
Indian lesbian couple ask court for protection from anti-gay family members 25 A newly-married lesbian couple in India have asked a court to protect them from homophobic family members.
5 July 2011
India’s health minister calls homosexuality a ‘western disease’ 234 India's health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has caused uproar by referring to homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the west.
27 May 2011
India celebrates second gay film festival 11 India's second annual gay film festival is underway in Mumbai.
13 April 2011
Indian minister says declining female birth rate means ‘we’ll all become gay’ 67 An Indian minister says he is concerned that the whole population will become gay if gender balance trends continue.
15 November 2010
Mumbai multiplexes ban gay film 7 India's answer to Brokeback Mountain has reportedly been banned by some of Mumbai's multiplexes for its gay content.
12 November 2010
Delhi eunuchs to be given pensions 7 All adult eunuchs in Delhi, India, will be given pensions of 1000 rupees (£14) per month in recognition of their low status, the local government has announced.
22 October 2010
Facebook ads can ‘out’ gay users 12 Facebook 'outs' gay users through some of its targeted ads, researchers have discovered.

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