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    India and the Global Fight for LGBT Rights

    Jan 22, 2019 4 minutes
    By Frank Mugisha

    IN SEPTEMBER 2018, LGBT people in India celebrated after the country’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex. It was an important moment for LGBT rights that not only reversed a relic of British oppression but also ordered that LGBT Indians be accorded all the protections of their constitution. This was a welcome victory, but it does not necessarily mean that LGBT people in India are fully free or perceived as equal among their fellow citizens—and it underscores how much work remains to be done in the rest of the world to overturn antiquated and repressive anti-gay laws.

    Let’s be clear: Criminalizing same-sex relations makes

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