Today, "New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality," the New York Times reports. The decision, which overturned an 1861 law banning "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal," marks the first decision from an Indian court to "directly address rights for gay men and lesbians."
Indians are intensely divided over the [...]

Wow. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the state's same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, striking "the language from Iowa code limiting marriage to only between a man a woman." The fight for gay marriage has been moving through the state courts since 2005. This is huge.