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I was ostracised for fighting for LGBT rights: Celina Jaitly

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Actress Celina Jaitly, who has always spoken up for the rights of the LGBTs (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender), says she was ostracised by her colleagues, friends and family for fighting for their rights but this did not deter her and she kept going.
An ecstatic Celina called it a historic judgement by the Supreme Court, which on Thursday decrimanlised homosexuality between consulting adults by declaring Section 377, the penal provision which criminalised gay sex as “manifestly arbitrary”
Hailing the verdict, Celina told IANS in a message: “I waited every single day for last 15 years of my life as an lgbt activist with great hope and optimism and it’s finally happened, I as a true patriot always had one principle and that being .. I do not accept discrimination should be preserved as a tradition, or that violence should be treasured as a part of any culture.”
The actress, a United Nations equality champion who promotes its Free and Equal campaign, says she cannot imagine what the LGBT fellow citizens felt all these years being “victims of an archaic system, the immense ostracism and criticism I faced as a straight ally and LGBT activist is not even a patch on it.” (IANS)

“Today history is made, millions will breath the first breath of freedom.. Our apex courts have changed the course of regressive thinking to a progressive one with today’s decision.. I am so happy that years I had struggle for many will come to an end and my children will have the opportunity to belong to a country which catered to its each and every citizens rights,” said Celina, who won the Miss India title in 2001.

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