Marta Franco checks in on the pace of progress:

[A]fter more than a century of being spurned by their families, reviled in public and harassed by police, India’s gays and their supporters say [2009's] 377 ruling [decriminalizing homosexuality] is encouraging a gradual emergence from the shadows. "They’re not so open with their families yet, but they feel relatively more free now," said Anand Grover, lawyer and director of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit. While the situation remains difficult for many homosexuals, particularly in rural areas, Grover points to the new gay tourism market, the spread of queer parties at nightclubs, and the rising divorce rate among gay men who had previously been pressured to marry women.

And a cultural shift is gradually underway: