Human rights and LGBTQ+ rights activists around the world rejoice in light of India’s Supreme Court’s decision to decriminalize sexual acts between people of the same sex. As CBC’s Thomson Reuters reports, “gay sex is considered taboo by many in socially conservative India, and it was reinstated as a criminal offence in 2013 after four years of decriminalization.” His publication, titled ‘'We are no longer criminals': India's top court scraps colonial-era ban on gay sex,’ was one of the numerous posts covering this landmark event on September 6, 2018.