India’s Queers Have Right To Reimagine Marriage

“Voices from across the queer spectrum are uniting to demand a legal provision for marriage…for the ‘bouquet of rights’ one can access through marriage: adoption, inheritance, maternity leave, taxes, joint bank accounts, insurance coverage, pensions, provident fund etc. These civil rights create the framework fundamental to living a life of dignity and respect, that which Navtej recognises as an inalienable right of every queer individual. Considering queer marriage, and by extension these rights, as elitist concepts is itself elitism masquerading as class consciousness, denying working class queer individuals their right to full citizenship.”

Access the full article on the Outlook India website.