Homesexuality

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  Love, Equally: Homosexuality No Longer A Crime, Says Supreme Court

  Homosexuality is not a crime in India anymore and it is not a mental disorder, five Supreme Court judges declared on Thursday in a spectacular leap for gay rights in the country and a rainbow moment in its history. The Supreme Court overruled its own 2013 decision and partially struck down Section 377, a controversial British-era law that banned co...

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  Vatican Synod Ends with Opening to Divorcees, No Change on Homesexuality

  Roman Catholic bishops agreed on Saturday to a qualified opening toward divorcees who have remarried outside the Church but rejected calls for more welcoming language towards homosexuals.

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  Amid Outrage Over Goa Minister's Gay 'Cure', UN Chief Comments on Intolerance in India

  United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has accused India of fomenting intolerance with its ban on gay sex amid uproar over a Goa minister's plans for centres to "make homosexuals normal".

• Uganda president to sign anti-gay bill: official

  Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said on Monday.

• Supreme Court dismisses plea to hear armed forces on homosexuality

  The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea to make armed forces a party to the petitions supporting and opposing the Delhi High Court's ruling which decriminalised homosexual acts between two consenting adults in private.A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi dismissed the plea made by one Suresh Kumar Kaushal, who submitted that the defence forces shou...

• Carey shoots down bisexuality rumours

  Mariah Carey is amused by longstanding rumours that she is a bisexual and rubbishes the speculation saying it's not "reality".