“We are here to celebrate ourselves.” More than 2,000 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters returned to New Delhi streets on Sunday to press for equal marriage rights after a three-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dancing to drumbeats, they carried rainbow flags, balloons and placards as they walked for more than an hour to the Jantar Mantar area near India’s Parliament.
Their hopes have been raised by India’s Supreme Court hearing petitions on granting legal recognition to same-sex marriage.
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