More than a dozen petitioners are asking the court for the same rights granted to heterosexual couples, such as eligibility to adopt, open joint bank accounts, and cover their spouse as part of their insurance.
The court reserved judgment but a ruling could come in the weeks ahead. Now, many look to their motherland with high hopes after the Indian Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case on legalizing same-sex marriage.
Mathoda is among many LGBTQ Indians who move or stay abroad where they can embrace their identity, find love, and live with more rights and little stigma. “Until that moment, we both wanted to move back to Delhi and live and build a life in India.” “It made me decide to stay back in the US,” she said. The families rejected the couple and their hostile response scared Mathoda - she did not feel safe going to India. When the couple reconciled, they came out to their families in India over email. She could not go back to India to start what she believed would be a false heterosexual marriage. She needed to live her truth and get back together with her girlfriend whom she had broken up with earlier. Rayman Mathoda was driving down Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles in the year 2000 when she decided that she had made a mistake.
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