What is more uplifting is that in April, the judge himself had undergone an educational session with a psychologist to learn more about same-sex relationships. He exhorted people to become similarly informed. It is vital to disband myths and fallacies that foment ignorance and more dangerously hate and violence physical or mental abuse towards the community.

The cure or conversion therapy ban is much needed as we see gay people, cajoled, threatened, blackmailed into such ‘conversion’ treatments, that shockingly exist everywhere. It begins with the attitude that a leaning towards the same sex person is an adolescent fantasy and the said person will grow out of it and become what people abhorrently like to call ‘normal’.

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It is also heartening to see that the court recognises the importance of changing attitudes. While judgments and orders are one thing, change has to come on the ground, in daily life and that can only happen with a more sensitised society. Other states can take a cue from this one. There is a rainbow in the sky over Chennai.