ANALYSING THE LEGAL STATUS OF LGBT IN INDIA AND TAKING THE NARRATIVE FORWARD: LIVING FREE AND EQUAL

This research paper will help you understand about the human sexuality and talks about the various types of gender identities currently evolving in the Indian society. The emergence of legal status and rights of the LGBTQIA community has been mainly derived from the precedence and doctrines followed in the highest courts of the United States and its consequences can be seen in alleviating the conditions of the community all over the world. The experience of having an exclusive or nearly exclusive erotic preference for people of the same sex in fantasies and, typically, through the realisation of sexual intimacy with people of the same sex, is referred to as "homosexuality." It can be thought of in terms of identity, behaviour, and desire. The emotional reaction to same-sex attraction is homosexual desire. When people who are the same sex interact sexually, it is considered homosexual behaviour. The assumption of a self-label known as "homosexual identity" signifies the recognition of the predominance of homosexual desire and behaviour in one's self-composition. Contrary to homosexual identity, homosexual orientation is an affective state that is largely characterised by samesex erotic desire that is uncontrollable and unaffected by historical or social construction. Homosexuals mainly fear to share their identities due to homophobia and discrimination that they will face. This deals with the various laws and legislations and court rulings which have favoured the betterment of the community in INDIA.