The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Kolkata on Sunday took part in the colourful Rainbow Pride Walk 2015 protesting against discrimination with the theme of the walk being 'Walking with Love and Solidarity'.
"Primarily, the LGBT community in India is criminalized and socially stigmatized. And we are also very strategically invisibilized. So, first thing is to create a visibility and what we could be a better way than hitting the streets to create a visibility that too in a very colourful, positive way. We have been doing this since long," Anish Roy Choudhury a regular participant of the walk told ANI.
Holding colourful banners and placards, the transgender community hit the streets of Kolkata by dancing and singing.
In 2009, the Delhi High Court ruled that Section 377 violated constitutional guarantees for equality, privacy and freedom of expression, ending the ban on same-sex relationships and sparking a new era in openness about homosexuality.
But the decision was challenged by religious groups, and the Supreme Court threw out that decision four years later saying that only Parliament could change Section 377.
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