No to Section 377: Love and let love, please

Also read: Gay or straight, India: It's time we all come out

In the trailer of the upcoming Aligarh, about a gay professor at Aligarh Muslim University who killed himself after being caught having sex with a man in his house on campus, a series of screen shots runs demanding a variant on the words "Come out".

The screen reads: "Come out and Question." The last word flips and we see: "Come out and Talk." And so on we read "Come out and Live" followed by "Come out and Love." Then, with a mournful violin playing in the background, the words compress, and the screen is all black except for the simple white of the words "#ComeOut."

Director Hansal Mehta and screenwriter Apurva Asrani play brilliantly on the English phrasal verb for telling the world one is gay, words that also lend easily to showing expression of support. But even they could not have guessed that close on the heels of their film's release, the highest court of the land would "come out" and admit the curative petition that seeks to decriminalise homosexuality.

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