{"id":5843,"date":"2009-07-02T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T13:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5843"},"modified":"2009-07-02T05:56:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:56:39","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the law has changed.  Congrats to at the activists in India that made it happen! Our hats off to you.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/\/090702\/photos_ts_wl_afp\/a2c5671deba591a5dcf6ee76f8169b54\/\"><img class=picture border=0 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/indiagay1_1.jpg\" width=399 height=268><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<p><center><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/\/090702\/481\/de55800f745e42d5a41f48f36d9b1032\/\" target=_blank><img class=picture border=0 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/indiagay2_1.jpg\" width=400 height=257><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p>In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi&#8217;s highest court decriminalized homosexuality. <\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;Discrimination is antithesis of equality,&#8221; the judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision that is the first in India to directly guarantee rights for gay people. &#8220;It is the recognition of equality which will foster dignity of every individual,&#8221; the decision said.<br \/><br \/>Homosexuality has been illegal in India since 1861, when British rulers codified a law prohibiting &#8220;carnal intercourse against the order of nature.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/03\/world\/asia\/03india.html?ref=asia\">Link<\/a>]\n<p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the law has changed. Congrats to at the activists in India that made it happen! Our hats off to you. In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/progress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,10,2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}