Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET
Celebrations by India’s LGBTQ community stretched into the night Thursday, after the country’s Supreme Court struck down a long-standing ban on gay sex in a unanimous decision that marks a watershed in the socially conservative country of 1.3 billion people.
It is a landmark ruling in a nation where attitudes about gays and lesbians are beginning to change — and the decision points to more questions of how India will extend equal protections to the LGBTQ community.
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