LGBTQI को शादी का अधिकार क्यो? | समलैंगिक विवाह क्यों ज़रूरी 15th May 2023 Discussion with queer feminist, activist and educator Chayanika Shah on the recent case of Legal Recognition For Same-Sex Marriages in India
Issue of marriage equality: https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=77&end=286 nalsa case: to include Trans people, and there are many types of trans. genders. Those who idenitfy themselef different from they have been determined at birth.
Why? Navtak Johar cASE: https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=287&end=558 Decrimanalising non hetero sex between adults. then if we form a "family" to live together and share our life, then it should be recognised by law and thereby also by society, in order to facilitiate seperation systems Why do we privilege hetero relationships and make discrimination between other types of decisions to live together..
What if religions are not in favour.. https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=559&end=822 Petition mainly in terms of Special Marriages Act which deals with Civil Unions between any people whatever their religions. Special Marriages Act 1954 Hindu marriages Act 1959. Anyway the Court is only looking into the Special Marraiges Act mariages..
If it is only a issues among the elite classes? https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=822&end=927
Backlash from Family members:https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=927&end=1046
https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=1046&end=1482 why marriages and not just live together . If marriage is given such an important place in social and legal and even economic life in hetero relationship, why not for those of two mutual consented . Even if one believes that the institution may bring about hierarchical relationships, one cannot deny it to those who need and want the protection of such institutions.
Non Conjugal unions https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=1482&end=1615 Right to sign as next-of-kin in medical cases.
Public Hearing: https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=1615&end=1685 on violence on queer from family
https://youtube.com/embed/rkRjInCKSKg?start=1687&end=2040 What about protective laws to women recognise as wife in marriages like in Domestic violence. These rights must be protected. The issues may not be worked out now, these can and will be sorted out later.. as we still need to figure out the power relations in these marraiges. There are also issues relating to other structural power relations, but these will be sorted out later..
Inheritance, yes, but as per Indian Succession Act and not as in personal laws.
Message to Society https://youtu.be/rkRjInCKSKg?t=2463
Supreme Court lawyer Nipun Saxena answers all these questions and more, with Bhadra Sinha and Apoorva Mandhani.
Brief History of SMA: https://youtu.be/pccW_8Z6keo?t=98