PICS: LGBTQ Community Covers Mumbai’s August Kranti Maidan To Opera House In Colours of Pride March

The LGBTQ community has called the bill "derogatory". Suresh Ramdas, Mr Gay India 2019, said, "Coming from Bangalore for my first Mumbai Pride March, I'm excited and proud to walk this pride celebrating my identity and first step towards freedom post Sec 377 being struck down. We have lot more work to do, and as Mr Gay India 2019, I would like to inspire and motivate people to be their authentic self." / PTI

On September 6 last year, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court had unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalises consensual unnatural sex. / PTI

The community is also opposing the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on December 17 last year. The bill seeks to define define transgenders and prohibit discrimination against them. / PTI

Such pride marches have been held by the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Trans-Queer community in different parts of the country since 2005. While the earlier demand was the decriminalisation of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, current demands include inclusion in workplace, education, marriage, adoption rights, protection against abuse and discrimination, they said. / PTI

Mumbai: Over 250 members of the LGBTQ community Saturday held a "pride march" from August Kranti Maidan to Opera House and back, in south Mumbai, to highlight issues facing them. / PTI