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Its continued implementation has bought much anguish and persecution to same-sex relationships.

In some Indian states people have taken their own lives because they have found it too unbearable.

It is not just police harassment that is concerning human rights groups.

Anjali Ghopalan is a leading amateur group interracial sex
in HIV/Aids prevention. She claims that the law is preventing charities like hers from doing their work.

“The authorities hide behind the law,” she says.

“It is not uncommon for our outreach workers to be harassed by the cops casual nyc sex dating or as we have seen in recent incidents, two men being arrested for holding hands in a park - the law is being used to frighten people.”

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The US based Human Rights Watch has also expressed concern about India’s colonial law.

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They have written to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about their worries over the treatment of the gay community.

Various groups are now lobbying the government and the courts for a change in the law.

Ironically India has a long tradition of non-heterosexual relationships.

There is evidence of it in its literature, the arts and ancient texts that date back thousands of years. Modern day India though still refuses to legalise adult chat dating room service
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The support group Sangini is preparing for its role in the campaign to overturn the law.

Another one of the project workers, Aman, says that after facing years of prejudice and harassment by people who suspected he was gay - he has finally come out in the open to family and friends. “I finally feel relaxed,” he says.

He was forced to leave home but he says “I now hope I can have children and a life like the straight people I know. If the world’s largest democracy cannot recognise our rights - what hope is there ”