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India: Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Decision Legalizing Being Gay

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

India Supreme Court and HomosexualityA challenge of the decision to decriminalise homosexuality in India has begun at the country’s Supreme Court this week.

In 2009. the Delhi High Court overturned Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalised “carnal intercourse against the order of nature”.

The law was ruled to violate fundamental citizens’ rights under the Indian constitution. Requests to the Supreme Court to stay the judgement were denied and the law, introduced 150 years ago, was lifted.

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Group Challenges Anti Gay Law in Northern Cyprus

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

A case has been lodged at the European Court of Human Rights against Turkey today to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Cyprus.

The move, by the Human Dignity Trust, follows reports that Northern Cyprus’s anti-gay law continues to be employed despite assurances given by its leader that it would be repealed.

Cyprus was required by the ECHR to decriminalise consensual sex between consenting adults in 1993, but in the Turkish-occupied part of Northern Cyprus, homosexual acts are still illegal.

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Australia: Member of Parliament Challenges Gillard Ban on Overseas Gay Marriages

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

A South Australian gay MP says he will challenge the country’s ban on gay marriages abroad.

Upper house MP Ian Hunter and his partner of 22 years, artist Leith Semmens, intend to tie the knot in New York, following that state’s legalisation of gay marriage.

However, the federal government is refusing to issue gay couples with Certificates of Non-Impediment to Marriage (CNI), which show they are not already married.

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Australia: Human Rights Commission to Hear Complaint About Gay Marriage Ban

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) will hear a complaint challenging the Australian Government’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Community activist and International Lesbian and Gay Association representative for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, Simon Margan, submitted the complaint on Wednesday.

Margan told the Star Observer he had been working on the complaint for some time, and that due to a lack of broad legislation covering sexuality discrimination he was challenging the ban from a sex discrimination angle.

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DC: What’s Next for Gay Marriage Law

Monday, July 26th, 2010

In yet another important win for marriage equality, the District of Columbia’s highest court ruled July 15 that the city government acted lawfully when it rejected a local minister attempt to place a referendum before voters that sought to roll back equal marriage rights for gay couples in the nation’s capital.

The ruling leaves intact marriage equality legislation, in effect in the District City Council since early March. But the ruling may not be the end of the battle for Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court and Congress may have the final word.

There were two questions before the D.C. Court of Appeals, which is the equivalent of a state supreme court. First, whether the proposed ballot measure was discriminatory or not, and second, whether the D.C. City Council had the authority to restrict a ballot initiative that violated a provision of city’s Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on the basis of sexual orientation and other categories.

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MA: Arguments Begin in new DOMA Challenge

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Opening arguments in a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) began Thursday before a federal judge in Boston, the AP reported. The Boston-based gay rights group Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the gay rights advocacy group at the center of the gay marriage debate in New England, is representing seven gay married couples and three surviving spouses from Massachusetts who have been denied federal benefits because of the 1996 law that defines marriage as a heterosexual union for federal agencies.

GLAD lawyer Mary L. Bonauto called the law an unconstitutional intrusion on a matter previously left to states. “All the federal government has ever cared about is that the person is married at the state level,” she argued before US District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro. “For the first time ever, DOMA departed from that.”

Bonauto asked Tauro to rule in the group’s favor without a trial.

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MA: Federal Court in Boston to Hear DOMA Court Challenge

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman is slated for its first court hearing.

Gay couples say the Defense of Marriage Act denies them access to federal benefits given to other married couples.

A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments Thursday on the government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and the same-sex couples’ request to rule in their favor without a trial.

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