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India's Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban On Gay Sex

The landmark decision overturns a long-standing provision in the country's penal code that dates back to British colonial rule and outlawed all anal and oral sex.
A Pride Walk in Kolkata, India, in December 2016.

India's Supreme Court today struck down a long-standing ban on gay sex in a unanimous decision that marks a watershed in the socially conservative country of 1.3 billion people.

It is a landmark ruling in a nation where attitudes about gays and lesbians are beginning to change – and the decision points to more questions of

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