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Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who won a landmark LGBTQ rights case in India, are two of the most influential people in 2019, Priyanka Chopra writes.
Jul 20, 2019 · India saw a new ray of hope, thanks to the leading ladies - advocates Menaka Guruswamy (44) and Arundhati Katju (36) - who argued against the discrimination and violence that the LGBTQ community faced every day. In an interview with Fareed Zakaria of CNN, the duo opened up about being in a relationship with each other.
In April 2016, Guruswamy along with a team of lawyers including Arundhati Katju and Saurabh Kripal filed a petition on behalf of five LGBT petitioners led by Navtej Singh Johar challenging the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
In the year 2019, in an interview with CNN Fareed Zakaria, Katju revealed that she was in a relationship with lawyer Menaka Guruswamy, with whom she convinced the Supreme Court in 2018 to decriminalise Section 377.
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Apr 19, 2019 · Supreme Court advocates Arundhati Katju & Menaka Guruswamy recall the day that the Supreme Court of India decriminalised homosexuality in their 2019 TIME 100 interview.
Sep 6, 2018 · Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju ’17 LL.M. were the prime architects of a creative, multi-year advocacy campaign to rid India of what Guruswamy called “a colonial stain on our collective national conscience”—an archaic law that sowed debilitating fear and stigma among sexual minorities.
This landmark judgment, overturning a 157-year-old law, was the outcome of a long-term campaign orchestrated by two amazing public-interest litigators, Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy.
The pair, who have become heroes of the LGBTQ community in their country, are currently spearheading a marriage equality case to be heard by the Supreme Court of India this spring. Guruswamy and Katju were named the 2023 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju are Indian lawyers who won a historic 2018 Indian Supreme Court case decriminalizing homosexuality. For the pair, who came out as a couple in the international media afterward, the ruling represented a personal triumph as well as a watershed victory for LGBTQ people in India.
