The Indian government's HIV/Aids control body has backed calls for homosexuality to be legalised.
The National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) said that infected people were being driven underground and efforts to curb the virus were being hampered.
Naco supported a court motion filed by an Aids charity on Wednesday seeking to end a law criminalising homosexuality. [More on the story here]
The development is related to the legal case that has been making its way through the Indian court system. The last word on the case was the Indian Supreme Court's ruling that Indian society was, basically, not "ready" for the legalization of homosexuality, and sent the case back to the Delhi court for reconsideration. It is in this court that NACO has now agreed to join the petitioners wanting to eliminate Section 377. HomoFOBia is cautiously optimistic...
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