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India Weighs An Historic Expansion of Marriage Rights

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What's Next for the Gay Community in India?

Aditi Anand and her partner are among several same-sex couples who petition the court for the right to marry. India's size and its political and economic influence in Asia means the ruling will be felt well beyond its borders. It's built up from a decades-long fight to first decriminalize homosexuality in India, which came to pass only in 2018. For more than 150 years it was a crime to openly declare that you were gay in this country.

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