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14 NUJS L. Rev. [i] (2021)

handle is hein.journals/nujslr14 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL NOTE TAKING NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR V. UNION OF INDIA TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION Kaira Pinheiro & Tanishk Goyal* I. INTRODUCTION When the Editorial Board of the NUJS Law Review put together Volume 13(3) as the Navtej Singh Johar Special Issue in 2020, it was a moment that signified the vindication of the LGBTQIA+ community's 'right to love' af- ter seventeen years of legal struggle and generations of majoritarian subjugation.' Put together after the dust had settled on the Navtej Johar verdict,2 the release of Special Issue by the NUJS Law Review was an attempt to initiate conversations on the lived experiences of those LGBTQIA+ individuals, who had been considered to be living 'against the order of nature' until then. The Navtej Singh Johar verdict had brought with itself, an affirma- tion that the values of individual dignity, autonomy and privacy were not just 'fro- zen concepts'3 which could be eroded at the altar of societal morality.4 This was a significant holding by the Court inasmuch as it set into motion the process of granting visibility to all those persons who had been living their lives under the shadows of §377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1862 ('IPC').i The grant of constitu- tional protection to these individuals, who had, for the most part of their lives been regarded as 'un-apprehended felons' was however just the beginning of the process of restoring their dignity.6 Members: Board of Editors, NUJS Law Review. Devashri Mishra & Aashesh Singh, Editorial Note: Navtej Singh Johar Special Issue, Vol. 13 NUJS L. REV., 3 (2020) ('Editorial Note 13(3)'); Shraddha Chaudhary, Navtej Johar v. Union Of India: Love In Legal Reasoning, Vol. 12, NUJS L. REV., 3-4 (2019). 2 Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, (2018) 10 SCC 1 ('Navtej Singh Johar'/'Johar'). 3 Same Sex Marriage, In re, 2004 SCC OnLine Can SC 80 (Supreme Court of Canada). 4 Navtej Singh Johar, ¶131. 5 Id., ¶453; See also, Oxford Union, Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju Full Address and Q&A, YOUTUBE, April 26, 2020, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lp6H4YYN-k (Last visited on June 4, 2021). 6 Edwin Cameron, Sexual Orientation and the Constitution: A Test Case for Human Rights, Vol. 110, SOUTH AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL, 450 (1993) (cited by Chandrachud, J. and Malhotra, J. in Navtej