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    Gay sex ban, overturned in India, remains in many former British colonies

    by Shashank Bengali and Simon Roughneen, Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 2018 4 minutes

    MUMBAI, India - When India's Supreme Court last week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried a 157-year-old law introduced during British colonial rule.

    The decision was a landmark - not least because civil rights activists hope it will galvanize the repeal of similar anti-gay laws that remain on the books in dozens of other former outposts of the British Empire.

    Britain decriminalized homosexuality half a century ago, but the vestiges of its Victorian-era morality laws linger from Antigua to Zambia. About 35 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, made up mostly of former colonies,

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