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020			_a9780143467564
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a306.76 _bROH/UR
100			_aRohin Bhatt
245			_aURBAN ELITE V. UNION OF INDIA _b: Unfulfilled Constitutional Promise of Marriage (In)Equality
250			_a1
260			_aHaryana _bEbury Press- Penguin Books _c2024
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500			_aWhat does it mean to be a queer lawyer? How should social impact and public interest legislation be undertaken? Is the legal profession a safe space for queer lawyers? What goes through the mind of a queer lawyer when homophobia is masqueraded as a legal argument? Rohin Bhatt was studying law at the Gujarat National Law University when the Supreme Court gave its landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India. The apex court was asked to determine the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law which, among other things, criminalized homosexual acts as an ‘unnatural offence’. The verdict changed the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community in India, with activists and lawyers outside the court cheering as the news broke. But five years later, little has changed on the ground. The Urban Elite versus Union of India is a first-of-its-kind book on queer rights not just of the courtroom, but of the author’s own life. In this book, they present the legal history of the fight for the decriminalization of Section 377, the arguments of the petitioners pushing for their right to marry (and the vicious opposition) and to have families of their own, as well as a story from the frontlines of litigating queer rights by a queer person that presents their own perspective of what it is like to be both personally and professionally involved in a case that had the potential to change the social fabric of this country forever.
505			_a1. Queer Revolutions: The Personal, the Political and the Legal 2. Judicial Punch in the Gut and the Way Forward 3. Judicial Journey 4. Acerbity, Acrimony and Arguments 5. Macbre and Malice 6. Return Fire 7. Excluded but Not Condemned: Judgement and the Way Ahead
650			_aQueer Revolutions
650			_aLGBTQ
650			_aSocial sciences
650			_aSociology and anthropology
650			_aCulture and Institutions
650			_aSexual relations
650			_aSexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality
650			_aQueers
650			_aSection 377
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