Dressed in bright colours, waving rainbow flags, and blaring upbeat music, people marched for over two hours until they reached the Jantar Mantar area, where India's Parliament is situated.
Supreme Court justices did call for better awareness and support for LGBTQ+ people. They also called on the government to ease same-sex couples' access to opening a joint bank account and adoption, to prevent discrimination.
Although the Indian government claimed in 2012 that the country has an LGBTQ+ population of about 2.5 million, local activists have calculated, based on global estimates, that LGBTQ+ people actually account for at least 10 per cent of India's population, which would bring that number up to about 135 million.
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