NEW DELHI: With the gay community taking small steps out of the closet, the city took a giant leap of pride on Sunday. As a group of some 600-700 homosexual men, lesbians and transgender people marched the streets of central Delhi, cheering diversity and shouting slogans against section 377 of the IPC, a decent number of city people turned out to walk with and celebrate the community which has long been at the receiving end of the law as well as social scorn in this country. There was no active hostility in the heart of the Capital as a rainbow group of gay activists, NGO workers, expat professionals, foreign tourists, eunuchs and ordinary people joined a 2.5 km march from the Barakhamba Road to Jantar Mantar. Demanding equal treatment and basic rights, India's first national gay pride parade ended with a tribute to the victims of section 377, a colonial-era provision in Indian law that prohibits "carnal intercourse against the order of nature".
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