Obviously they are getting the courage somehow, because society is evolving. While it’s tough, I think a larger number of people are doing it. Maybe they’re just braver than we were or maybe the situation has changed. I remember when I was coming out as a queer lawyer, there were a handful of people. You could count them on your fingertips.
That’s no longer true when we argued the marriage equality petition in the Supreme Court. The courtroom was full of queer lawyers, and that was a wonderful thing, really. As opposed to the arguments in Koushal’s case, when Justice GS Singhvi asked the Additional Solicitor General,
“Do you know any queer person? We don’t know anyone.”
No one said anything. And it was as though we were talking of abstract entities as opposed to the real lawyers who appear before judges every day. Things are changing.
Source: Barandbench
