Not Everyone Is Accomodating As Canada

India refuses to give Canadian gays diplomatic status
The Canadian Press
Friday, May 11, 2007

The federal government has refused to comment on a report that India has barred two Canadian homosexuals from receiving diplomatic status in that country.
Canadian officials have failed to persuade the Indian government that a gay man and lesbian woman married to Foreign Affairs employees should receive diplomatic-spousal status, an Indian newspaper reported.
While same-sex marriages are legal in Canada, the Calcutta Telegraph says the act of homosexual intercourse is listed as a serious crime in India.
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code -- which came into effect in 1862 -- provides for a life sentence for same-sex acts, the Telegraph reported last Sunday.
Indian police routinely arrest and punish gays and lesbians under the law, but lawyers and activists have filed a petition in Delhi High Court demanding its revocation, the Telegraph says.
Same-sex marriage is legal in seven countries and became law in Canada in 2005.
© The Ottawa Citizen 2007