for their attitude i feel that amending section 377 would help everyone as there are both guys and girls who end up getting married to closeted gays and lesbians which makes their lives miserable doing away with it will improve everyones life because of this reason i also hope that one day our surrogacy laws wont discriminate against gay couples and would help them have children rajashree rajuarts manager l in a universityi am 25 and i would call myself extremely privileged my mother was friends with some people in the queer movement and i grew up knowing that there are diverse sexual orientations and gender identities i was also aware of the fact that life was never going to be easy for a queer person in india even though i knew i was bisexual from the age of 13 i was not comfortable enough to come out to anyone even to close friends till i joined college miranda house college in delhi university and it was only after three years of college that i came out to everyone through a facebook post i feel that amending 377 will make a difference but there is much more work to be done for the queer movement in kerala to fight deep rooted transphobia and homophobia in the society the arguments used in court for scrapping 377 only refers to privileged gay men even though it is mostly transwomen and gender nonconforming people from marginalised communities who are harassed using this draconian section so it is clear that the legal system will always favour and protect the privileged so we queer activists would keep working towards breaking our own biases and move beyond waiting for the state to protect uszara sheikhahr professional in an mnc and first transwoman to be an it professional in the countryfrom age 10 i knew i was a woman but i was scared that i would be left with no shelter or support if i revealed my identity but three years ago i went for it and it was met with tremendous family and workplace oppositions but i never gave up and finally the company that i currently work for hired me as a normal woman employee this judgment will help in that people like me wouldnt have to weigh in ugly situations before telling the world whom we really are legal support is a big step towards societal acceptance aishwaryan kartisti have never publically come out but taking part in homomorphism the art show organised recently by queerala in kochi indirectly served as my platform i am from palakkad and am 32 years old and i am a trained visual artist who has lived all his life in bengaluru i always thought straight people arent declaring their orientation so why should i but now i feel it can help other gay people my family used to ask me about getting married but they dont anymore and have learnt to accept me at the moment i have