Satire Dual-Edged, but Spare
AMERICA’S LARGEST CIRCULATION GAY AND LESBIAN NEWSPAPER! NEWSTM YOUR FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER JULY 9-22, 2009 VOL. EIGHT, ISSUE 14 SERVINGGay GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANSGENDERED City NEW YORK • WWW.GAYCITYNEWS.COM ■ CRIME ■ HUMAN RIGHTS Surge In East Sodomy Victory Side Hate In India Crimes BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD BY PAUL SCHINDLER regional high court in India has overturned that nation’s sodomy our days after being attacked, A law, a vestige of British colonial beaten on the head with a gun, and rule. The High Court in the National F called “faggot,” Joseph Holladay’s Capital Territory in New Delhi ruled that forehead remained scarred with a large, Section 377 of the India Penal Code vio- blood-red gash, and his voice quavered as lates constitutional guarantees of pri- he recounted the experience. vacy, liberty, and equality in its crimi- “Suddenly, out of nowhere, I was nalization of private, consensual, adult attacked by some men, they were call- sexual conduct. ing me faggot,” he said at a July 1 press The ruling came on a test case brought conference. “They beat me hard, and by a non-profit advocacy group, the NAZ unconscious, leaving me laying in a pool of Foundation. The Times of India reported blood.” that the nation’s Supreme Court has The next thing Holladay, 36, remem- made clear that a ruling of this sort by bers is waking up in New York Presbyte- the High Court of any province or state rian Hospital, where he was treated in the on a constitutional question not previ- emergency room and given multiple stitch- ously addressed by the judiciary has es in his head.
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