Beyond Labels: A Study of Social & Legal Rights of the LGBTQ Community

This research paper explores the conditions and rights of the LGTBQ community across some significant countries including India and the evolution of the how slowly and gradually the acceptance of this community came to be in countries across the globe. It studies how various factors such as political situations, socio-cultural and religious perspectives and how these factors shape not how the society views them but also the laws, policies and welfare schemes. By providing the evolution of homosexuality in the countries mentioned in the research, it helps us analyse the legal sanctions implied on the community across the globe and the implications of those sanctions. The landmark and significant cases are exclusively related to the rights of the community in India which has been discussed below in the paper in detail. These judgements reflect not only the legal perspective but also showcases the social perspective through the lens of the judges and how either by the judgments they can be shift towards either positive or negative light. These research paper exclusively focuses on Indian LGBTQ community, the difficulties faced by them in all walks of life along with how the landmark cases turned out to be major turning point towards hope for better life with dignity excluded of discrimination. The aim of this research paper is to focus is to show how far we have come as society and how much better we can do for each other as individuals. It is not just about acceptance and equal treatment or rights but also about a mere sexual orientation of a person changes the people’s perspective, and how often we as society uses such degrading and derogatory words to either make fun of them or address them which can be changed if we as society takes equal participation in understanding them as individuals, as a human and treat them with dignity and respect a right guaranteed to not only the heterosexual people but also the homosexual people as we are all part of the society and citizens of the country which guarantees such equal treatment to its all citizens irrespective of everything at large at least on paper whereas the ground reality seems to be far away even from the basic right of the individuals which is under article 21 of the Indian constitution. We need to change not only the laws which gives them equal treatment and rights but also a society we need to push for the change and accept them as part of this huge society.