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India Weighs An Historic Expansion of Marriage Rights

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Gay Marriage

In 1861, when the British took over rule of India, that is when the law was codified and drafted to make homosexuality a crime. Hindu mythology is very, very open when it comes to sexuality. Even for the many hundred years of Mughal, Muslim rule in India, erotic, homo-erotic poetry, same sex, love, none of it was criminalized. A ruling could come as early as this summer or this fall.

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