Just got ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on July 17, 2018. Might be legal in Oct 2018. Section 377 of the Indian Criminal Code is being rewritten. The ban just got struck down today.

Indian LGBTQ couples are able to obtain some limited rights as a live-in couple. The August 2022 Supreme Court decision Deepika Singh v. Central Administrative Tribunal widened the definition of family.

Familial relationships may take the form of domestic, unmarried partnerships or queer relationships. A household may be a single parent household for any number of reasons, including the death of a spouse, separation, or divorce. Similarly, the guardians and caretakers (who traditionally occupy the roles of the “mother” and the “father”) of children may change with remarriage, adoption, or fostering. These manifestations of love and of families may not be typical but they are as real as their traditional counterparts.

Previously in 2020,the Uttarakhand High Court ruled same-sex couples have a right to unregistered cohabitation, although the ruling did not spread nationally. There was also limited minimal recognition in some jurisdictions of the nation.

In India, there are no laws restricting to discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 allows for transgender individuals to change their legal gender from male to female and vice versa. An option for third gender is available without surgery required under the 2014 Supreme Court ruling.

India's Supreme Court has ruled to recognize a third gender commonly known as hijra. Indian passports display this with the descriptor "O" (other), with other identification documents also availble with "T" (transgender) and "TG" (third gender).

Full discriminiation protections pending for transgender people. Sexual orientation discrimination protection through human rights institute.

Transgender discrimination protections pending. Sexual orientation discrimination protection through human rights institute. Full discrimination protections pending.

Full discrimination protection pending nationwide.

Same-sex couples are not permitted to adopt a child in India but single LGBTQ parents are.

Despite decriminalizing homosexuality the army still doesn’t allow openly LGBTQ+ people to serve in the military.

Illegal for gay Indians to openly serve in the military

Court decision pending.

On 7 June 2021, in delivering the verdict on this case, Justice N Anand Venkatesh prohibited Conversion Therapy with India becoming only the 2nd country in Asia to ban conversion therapy behind Taiwan

The Criminal Law Act of 2013 raised the age of consent for homosexual sex and heterosexual sex to 18.