{"id":80791,"date":"2018-09-08T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80791"},"modified":"2018-09-08T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:31:46","slug":"a-long-hard-battle-of-a-sri-lankan-activist-for-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/08\/a-long-hard-battle-of-a-sri-lankan-activist-for-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"A long &#038; hard battle of a Sri Lankan activist for gay rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Economic Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It has been a long and arduous road for the LGBT community in India, as it has been for practically all of us who have lived under the yoke of colonial-era laws that have criminalised and marginalised us for over a century<\/p>\n<p>Waking up on the morning of September 6, I thought I was facing yet another humdrum day in Colombo. Good news is always so few and far between when it comes to gay rights in our part of the world. Then came the news from India, the blaring headlines, the joy in activists\u2019 voices \u2014 this was a moment to cherish, and also a moment to reflect. In scrapping Section 377, India has done at last what should have been done many, many years ago. Better late than never, however. I can\u2019t applaud LGBT activi\u00a0..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-65736598,width-643,imgsize-1124867,resizemode-4\/gay-parade-india-bccl.jpg\" alt=\"Gay-parade-india-bccl\" width=\"643\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Read more at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/65736301.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/65736301.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Economic Times It has been a long and arduous road for the LGBT community in India, as it has been for practically all of us who have lived under the yoke of colonial-era laws that have criminalised and marginalised us for over a century Waking up on the morning of September 6, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}