India REcriminalizes homosexuality

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11 points·ashray··7 comments

And people wonder why we need LGBT+ activism still....

It is worth baring in mind that this incidentally will affect a lot of people in Europe and North America. India is a primary area for companies to outsource not just their technology to, but also entire business processes. This includes HR document processing, which will result in personal information clearly relating to LGBT issues being processed by staff working in a culture hostile to LGBT people

Well, that's your problem with decriminalising it in court. A future court might ignore the precedent.

What does this have to do with hacking?

Are you kidding? India and technology are highly related.

I know I won't be travelling to India on business anymore because of this. I don't want to be arrested.

Seriously? How are you going to be arrested unless you go yelling in public that you are homosexual?

Go to India on business trip, fall in love with someone, get arrested. Same things have happened in Dubai.

Actually Dubai is worse, if you are caught having sex with your girlfriend you can get jail time because you're not married.

What does Dubai (a city) have to do with India (a country)? Plus, you're comparing homosexual to heterosexual relations.

Having lived in Dubai, I know of plenty of people who had sexual relationships without being married (not that I approve of that), and they were never arrested. The only cases I have heard of where arrests did happen were in cases where they happened in public.

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