It was couples, chronicles and cake cutting at the Humsafar Trust in Vakola, Santacruz East on Wednesday evening. The Trust, a gay community-based organisation established in the 90s, played host to a celebration of the fifth-year anniversary of the reading down of Section 377. The section was a colonial-era law that criminalised consensual sex between two same-sex adults.

Cerebral party

The meeting was a mix of celebrations with the cerebral. While there were good memories associated with the reading down of Section 377, there was also the inevitable question about the community awaiting a Supreme Court verdict after hearing a bunch of petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages.