A legal fight is looming for same-sex marriage in India.

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India’s Fight For Same-Sex Marriage

Across the world, in India, a lengthy legal fight over same sex marriage, it's about to start. India's Supreme Court will hear arguments in March about legalizing same sex marriage. If that happens, India would become the second economy in Asia, after Taiwan. To do so, legal experts expect a long court battle, homosexuality has been long stigmatized in India, and many same sex couples are often harassed and face prejudice. In recent years, though there has been some progress in this high court decriminalized gay sex in 2018.