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‘Not concerned whether I can marry; can I be eligible for a scholarship... that
Updated On: 07 May, 2023 12:46 PM IST | Mumbai | Shweta Shiware
There are radicals within radicals challenging the fight that India’s queer are waging against the establishment for equal marriage rights
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![Partners Ashish Mehta and Akshay Tyagi say they will be ecstatic if the court were to rule in favour of same-sex marriage in India, “but our solidarity [with the queer community] does not end at one sanction. There is more to be done for a fairer society [to exist]; our battle is constant.”](https://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/may/gay-may-seven-a_d.jpg "‘Not concerned whether I can marry; can I be eligible for a scholarship... that")
Partners Ashish Mehta and Akshay Tyagi say they will be ecstatic if the court were to rule in favour of same-sex marriage in India, “but our solidarity [with the queer community] does not end at one sanction. There is more to be done for a fairer society [to exist]; our battle is constant.”
If the 2018 Supreme Court (SC) ruling that decriminalised homosexuality was a “rainbow of hope”, the momentum for legal status of same-sex marriage in India could usher in greater acceptance for the queer.
When someone asks Akshay Tyagi and his partner Ashish Mehta, when they will marry, they find themselves tongue tied. “It is the strangest thing because it is our straight, married friends who are curious to know,” Tyagi laughs. It is not like the 36-year-olds are not in love. They have been a couple for five-and-a-half years, but they wonder what marriage specifically will bring for them. “We are out and proud. In all senses, we are already married; my parents and friends know Ashish as my partner, not flatmate. We like to think we are living human experiences rather than institutional ones,” Tyagi argues, adding that they have also decided not to have children.
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