Supreme Court same sex marriage plea: "Our family is just like any other family"
While the Supreme Court of India reviews petitions recognising same-sex marriage, we speak to a Bengaluru-based couple to deepen our understanding of what a queer partnership is
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Mayank Kalra (R) and Sougata Basu(L) tied the knot in 2022 infront of their family and friends. Photo credits: Mayank Kalra and Sougata Basu
“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly,” said late Edith Windsor. The LGBTQIA+ activist was a lead plaintiff in the 2013 case in the Supreme Court of the United States, which yielded a landmark win for the same-sex marriage movement across the world. A decade has passed, and millions of queer Indians are waiting for what is their fundamental right to live an authentic life with dignity as the Supreme Court of India is reviewing petitions for the recognition of same-sex marriage.
While the abolishment of section 377 in 2018 was a watershed for the Indian LGBTQIA+ rights movement, the Central government filed an affidavit stating, “Living together as partners and having sexual relationship by same sex individuals [which is decriminalised now] is not comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children which necessarily presuppose a biological man as a ‘husband’, a biological woman as a ‘wife’ and the children born out of the union between the two – who are reared by the biological man as father and the biological woman as mother.”
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