Rose Venkatesan has floated the Sexual Liberation Party of India, which she says, will be formed with like-minded people who believe in ‘sexuality as a basic right.'
Right from legalising Prostitution and Brothel centres to making necessary amendments to the Constitution, Ms. Venkatesan says, there are many reforms her party believes in.
The Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know the number of HIV-infected people in the country, and the number of homosexuals among them.
A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay asked the government to get all data on India’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) population, and sought the figures in “proper charts and figures” by the next hearing.
The Bench expressed unhappiness that the government had only a vague picture about the actual number of HIV-infected persons.
“How can identical number of people get HIV in two consecutive years? You should have done your homework before coming to the court,” the bench told Additional Solicitor General Mohan Jain, who represents the central government.
The authenticity of the government data faced further challenge when an anti-gay activist pointed out that the 73rd parliamentary committee report from the HRD ministry showed the total population of HIV-infected persons as 8.13 million, while NACO showed a far fewer number.
“There is a contradiction here,” the bench told the government counsel.
Asked about the mechanism of funding NGOs working with HIV positive people, Jain said NACO only allocated aid to state AIDS control societies, who distributed the money to NGOs. “It (distribution of funds) is completely controlled by the state principal secretaries,” the ASG said.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
After Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor, Gul Panag and Celina Jaitly, it is Mallika Sherawat's turn to use her celebrity status to draw more awareness to the LGBT community.
Sherawat recently shot for the NOH8 campaign demanding equality for homosexuals. She shared the picture from the campaign (above) as she tweeted: 'There should be NO DISCRIMINATION.'
The actress, who recently finished shooting for an item song Laila for Priyadarshan's thriller Tezz, has flown to the USA where she will an engagement party for her gay friends Rick Ferrari and his fiance Alex.
The Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know the number of HIV-infected people in the country, and the number of homosexuals among them.
A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay asked the government to get all data on India’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) population, and sought the figures in “proper charts and figures” by the next hearing.
The Bench expressed unhappiness that the government had only a vague picture about the actual number of HIV-infected persons.
A note presented by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), a department under the health ministry, had reached the “unlikely” conclusion that the number of people infected by HIV in 2009 and 2010 were exactly the same: 23.9 lakh.
The authenticity of the government data faced further challenge when an anti-gay activist pointed out that the 73rd parliamentary committee report from the HRD ministry showed the total population of HIV-infected persons as 8.13 million, while NACO showed a far fewer number.
“There is a contradiction here,” the bench told the government counsel.
Asked about the mechanism of funding NGOs working with HIV positive people, Jain said NACO only allocated aid to state AIDS control societies, who distributed the money to NGOs. “It (distribution of funds) is completely controlled by the state principal secretaries,” the ASG said.
“So how many in Delhi are infected with HIV? How much you are providing for state governments. Submit proper chart and figures,” the court responded.
The court asked the central government to explain its criteria for profiling the categories like migrants and truckers as “high risk groups”, and the source of the information on the basis of which it considered them “high risk”.
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Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
After Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor, Gul Panag and Celina Jaitly, it is Mallika Sherawat's turn to use her celebrity status to draw more awareness to the LGBT community.
Sherawat recently shot for the NOH8 campaign demanding equality for homosexuals. She shared the picture from the campaign (above) as she tweeted: 'There should be NO DISCRIMINATION.'
The actress, who recently finished shooting for an item song Laila for Priyadarshan's thriller Tezz, has flown to the USA where she will an engagement party for her gay friends Rick Ferrari and his fiance Alex.
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