Indians Go 'Gay for a Day' to Protest Supreme Court Ruling Criminalizing Gay Sex - Polidicks

[URL]http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201312122106-0023250[/URL] [quote=]Indians online are posting photos of same-sex affection to show their outrage over a Indian supreme court ruling that [URL="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/12/india-gay-sex-verdict-sparks-outrage-201312126547850167.html"]criminalises[/URL] gay sex. Thousands of Facebook users have joined the "Gay for a Day" campaign, which is [URL="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/gay-for-a-day-movement-catches-fire-on-facebook-day-after-sc-ruling/1/330774.html"]soliciting[/URL] photos of people kissing someone of the same gender. Though many in India still [URL="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Brunch/Brunch-Stories/Is-this-a-confused-generation/Article1-809961.aspx"]disapprove[/URL] of homosexuality, online users joined the pro-LGBT rights campaign after the decision was announced on Tuesday[/quote] [IMG]http://stream.aljazeera.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_big_thumbnail/455100253.jpg[/IMG] [quote=]A gay rights activist in front of Academy of Fine Arts during a protest after India's Supreme Court reinstated a ban on gay sex on December 11, 2013 in Kolkata, India.[/quote]

Is the President trying to revoke this ruling because I'm getting awfully confused here

T'was a jolly and gay day, t'was!

I regret reading the comments on the Al Jazeera article.

[QUOTE=DogGunn;43168806]I regret reading the comments on the Al Jazeera article.[/QUOTE] Is that a standard for Al-Jazeera articles?

[QUOTE=DogGunn;43168806]I regret reading the comments on the Al Jazeera article.[/QUOTE] The diffrence between a gay article comments on Al-Jazeera and on a typical news website from my country is that nope, there are none from what I can see

Surprisingly progressive of India. But then again, their economy has been growing fairly fast, and the big cities are becoming very metropolitan in their sensibilities. I'm very happy to hear of the backlash - Hopefully the Supreme Court sees sense.

[QUOTE=ironman17;43169386]Is that a standard for Al-Jazeera articles?[/QUOTE] It's the standard for every news site with comments enabled ever.

[QUOTE====;43171601]It's the standard for every news site with comments enabled ever.[/QUOTE] the few comments I read were a bit above average, some of the usual twits about but lots of people defending gaydom with real arguments then there was this guy [img]http://i.imgur.com/3edScIU.png[/img] honestly I expected it to be more a bunch of people calling AJ a terrorist network

that girl in the picture is frickin gorgeous. anyway, on topic: so they outright criminalized gay sex? How does that work? what does it define? What if, I went to india and my (non-existant) girl decided "hey fuck me in the stankhole", would we be arrested?

Gay sex was/is outlawed in a few states in the US I believe. I oft wondered how they would enforce such a law.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;43175614]Gay sex was/is outlawed in a few states in the US I believe. I oft wondered how they would enforce such a law.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing by raiding gay bars and places like that.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;43175614]Gay sex was/is outlawed in a few states in the US I believe. I oft wondered how they would enforce such a law.[/QUOTE] They don't/can't, unless you're sucking dick in the middle of the street or some shit.

[QUOTE=LSK;43176169]They don't/can't, unless you're sucking dick in the middle of the street or some shit.[/QUOTE] couldn't* since all laws banning gay sex were struck down by the supreme court. Well I guess they still could do something about you sucking someone's dick in the middle of the street but I think that's a different law :v:

[QUOTE=Kyle902;43175614]Gay sex was/is outlawed in a few states in the US I believe. I oft wondered how they would enforce such a law.[/QUOTE] Yeah it is illegal here in North Carolina, not that it has stopped me...

[QUOTE=Kyle902;43175614]Gay sex was/is outlawed in a few states in the US I believe. I oft wondered how they would enforce such a law.[/QUOTE] This law has apparently been used by police to harass gay people more than it has been actually enforced [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Rika-chan;43177801]Yeah it is illegal here in North Carolina, not that it has stopped me...[/QUOTE] Weren't those laws all struck down in 2003 though?

When I read the title, I assumed people were having a bunch of gay sex in protest. All I could imagine was some guy going, "No, No! It's not gay, I'm just protesting, " in some sort of thinly veiled excuse to have gay sex when he says he's straight.

[QUOTE=archangel125;43171497]Surprisingly progressive of India. But then again, their economy has been growing fairly fast, and the big cities are becoming very metropolitan in their sensibilities. I'm very happy to hear of the backlash - Hopefully the Supreme Court sees sense.[/QUOTE]The thing is, the Supreme Court can't do shit about it. The law is the law, fuck all they can do about it. It's up to politicians to repeal the law.