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5 things you didn’t know about the rights of Same-sex Couples

The Delhi High Court has taken up two petitions dealing withmarriage equalityfor same-sex couples. The petitions seek that the Special Marriage Act (SMA) and Foreign Marriage Act (FMA) should apply to all couples regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation. The Court has asked the Primary government to respond to these petitions.

Is homosexuality a crime in India?

No, homosexuality is not a crime in our nation. In the landmark judgement ofNavtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, the Supreme Court said that homosexuality i.e., being sexually attracted to a person of the same sex, is not a criminal offence. Any two consenting adults are allowed to have sex. It doesn’t matter if the individuals having sex are both men, or both women, or belong to contrary sexes.

A ‘same-sex couple’ can allude to to a gay couple (two men) or a lesbian couple (two women).

The freedom of choice

The Supreme Court has said that when sexual orientation or choice is restricted, an individual’s natural and constitutional right

Same-sex couples living together in Australia

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Same-sex couples recorded as living together up by 50%

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The number of lgbtq+ couples recorded as living together in the UK rose by more than 50% in the three years to , official statistics show.

The Office for National Statistics says there were , in , compared with , in And more than a quarter of them were married.

There were also eight million people living alone, more than ever before.

And this has been driven by increases among women aged 45 to 64 and men aged 65 to 74 years.

The figures also uncover one in four to year-olds - million in total - was living with their parents.

And opposite-sex couples "increasingly choose to inhabit together before, or without, getting married".

Confidence

An ONS statistician said much of the increase in equal sex couples recorded as living together had been driven by the legislation introducing same-sex marriages, whether this meant more same-sex couples were living together or more felt comfortable to exclaim they were.

LGBT Foundation communications coordinator Joe Nellist said: "It is p

The top 10 neighborhoods where same-sex couples live after saying “I do”

will go down in history as the year that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized same-sex couples’ legal right to marry in any U.S. state through the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. And following the ruling, all married lgbtq+ couples were required to fulfill a familiar marital obligation: jointly filing federal tax returns.

In a fresh paper, Brookings Senior Fellow Adam Looney and the Treasury Department’s Robin Fisher and Geof Gee review data from these tax returns to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the patterns of America’s gay married couples in the years immediately following the court’s decision. The information provide some key insights, including that they are generally younger, higher income, and less likely to claim dependent children than their different-sex peers.

Additionally, Looney and his colleagues were able to identify patterns surrounding where married lgbtq+ couples choose to live—all the way down to which neighborhoods they favor. Though these neighborhoods vary widely in size a