(From left) Gautam Yadav and Yashwinder Singh from Humsafar Trust, and lawyer Suraj Sanap

Ashok Row Kavi, India's first person to publicly come out as gay in 1984, and still one of the foremost flag bearers of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement, has approached the Supreme Court, along with three other gay men and The Humsafar Trust (HST), to push for the decriminalisation of same sex relations. The petition was filed on April 30 and it was admitted on May 1. Kavi says, "I am pleasantly surprised at the speed at which it was admitted. Yet, this petition has been now been clubbed with various other petitions and will come up for hearing in July." The others who have filed the petition along with Kavi are Vivek Anand, chief executive officer, HST, and Gautam Yadav and Yashwinder Singh, who also work with HST.