In a historic decision, the Supreme Court abolished the section 377 of the IPC that criminalised consensual homosexual sex in India. LGBTQ community across the nation celebrated the landmark gay-rights victory.
There was a special message to the Indian gay community from Netflix's Queer Eye. The Fab 5 — Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness took to Instagram to express their happiness on the landmark judgement.
The Instagram Stories starts with the note: "THE FAB FIVE have a message for India"
Following that Karamo shared his excitement. He said: "Hey India! Love wins. I am so happy for you guys."
Bobby shared: "Congrats on the equality. I am so happy for you. Keep loving love."
"I am so happy that the day is finally here. Congratulations," Tan stated.
Meanwhile, senior advocate Arvind P Datar, Arvind Datar, the attorney for the petitioners, told Bloomberg Quint, what made the judgement possible.
He said: "We should give a lot of credit to the judgement of the Delhi high court from 2009 which had the vision and foresight to say that look you can't criminalise same sex relationships. If you look at that judgement, it took trouble of getting into detailed medical evidence and said that there is nothing criminal about this. It said you are putting this in the chapter which has rape, murder and other heinous crimes. The Delhi High Court made it very clear that there was nothing."'
"Luckily for us the privacy judgement came, and they talked of personal autonomy and the right to choose partners. So with all those observations it gave impetus to the case. We then mentioned it to the Chief Justice and it was referred to five judges but with one condition that we'll only stick to decriminalisation of Section 377. It was made very clear that the section 377, which punishes sex with minors and animals, will continue to be a crime. On this narrow point it was referred to the five judges," he added.
