Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court, while commenting on the US Supreme Court’s historic ruling recognising the constitutional right of same-sex couples of marry — in Obergefell v. Hodges — called the transcendent moment the victory of the “dignity” and “profound hopes and aspirations” of the many loving couples of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LBGT) community. The next day The New York Times carried the front-page headline “Equal Dignity”.
This same dignity of an individual’s core identity has been denied under Indian law for more than 157 years, solely on the basis of an individual’s
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