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Section 377: SC hasn’t done anything great, gays should stop playing victim, says Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Sep 6, 2018, 7:10 PM IST

New Delhi: Noted thinker and senior fellow in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, is a strict believer in LGBTQI rights and is also 'out and proud'.

Iyer-Mitra spoke to MyNation on Thursday and decimated some myths about homosexuality in India. Iyer-Mitra called the judgment “nothing great” and noted that “actual homophobia doesn’t exist in India”. He stirred up the popular narrative of gays being victimised. Watch this MyNation special, with Iyer-Mitra at his menacing best.