Anguished with SC’s decision to uphold ban on same-gender sex, celebrities feel that such an ‘apex misjudgment’ will push India back to stone-age
Members of the LGBT community attend the 5th Delhi Queer Pride parade in New Delhi. |
Here’s what they said
• Amir Khan: “I am most disappointed with this judgment. It feels very intolerant and violative of basic human rights. It’s a shame.”
• Madhur Bhandarkar: Just when we thought we are looking into the future, comes a judgment that treats us like we are in the stone-age. The disappointment is justified.
• Chetan Bhagat: What?! Consensual gay sex ruled illegal in 2014? Shows you how badly India needs new young leaders with a modern outlook.
• Shruti Haasan: 11.12.13 a day that reminds us how blatant regressing and oppressing someone has become – plan b move bedroom to another planet and time.
• Sudhir Mishra: The decision declaring gay consensual sex illegal betrays a primitive Victorian mind. It is certainly not Indian.
• Kunal Kohli: On 11-12-13 Supreme Court goes back to the medieval ages with Section 377.
• Anupam Kher: We obviously don’t believe in equal rights even in the times when we send Mangalayan to Mars.
• Kalki Koechlin: Supreme Court’s job is to uphold the right and freedom of every individual, not to decide what is culturally acceptable or not. In this case they failed.
• Shruti Seth: So while the world is trying to legalise gay marriage, here’s what we’re doing as a nation. Such a disgrace!
• Riteish Deshmukh: Supreme Mis-judgement.
• Nikhil Advani: Welcome to the medieval ages! It was only a matter of time. Neha Dhupia: How can love be illegal?
• Rahul Bose: So much for those believing the judiciary is ‘the last bastion of common sense’ in this country.
• Vinay Pathak: Supreme Court – Straight or scared! Milap Zaveri: Nothing supreme about the court’s decision. Shocked and disappointed at the anti-gay verdict.
• Shirish Kunder: Personally, I’ve no problem with same-sex relationships, as long as it’s not compulsory.
• Vir Das: Today is 11.12.13. Unless you work in our Supreme Court, in which case it’s the year 1826.
• Sandhya Mridul: The courts are unfortunately only following the law of the land, which are as old as the dinosaurs. Blame the legislature more than Supreme Court!
• Hansal Mehta: Does India not have a single gay judge? Or does being gay mean that you can only be unfairly judged?
• Siddharth: India is a bigot nation. I pray that every person who tries to deny another person their rights gets IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome). Bigots beware.
• Richa Chadda: The Supreme Court criminalises love, again. Sad day.
• Nachiket Barve: The problems of this world are because of what happens ‘without consent’ rather than what happens between ‘consenting adults’! wake up! Celina Jaitly: I cannot believe Supreme Court’s decision. I have been in shock since it came. Such a contradiction of democracy.
