SC: Members of LGBTQ entitled to equal citizenship

‘Non-recognition Of Marriages Violates Rights’

- Dhananjay.Mahapatra 

They said the SC had also ruled in the Johar judgment that “members of the LGBT community are entitled, as all other citizens, to the full range of constitutional rights, including the liberties protected by the Constitution”.

The SC had also said, “The choice of whom to partner, the ability to find fulfilment in sexual intimacies and the right not to be subjected to discriminatory behaviour is intrinsic to the constitutional protection of sexual orientation. Members of LGBTQ are entitled to the benefit of an equal citizenship, without discrimination, and to equal protection of law.”