Abstract
Upendra Baxi is one of the few legal scholars of his generation to have consistently engaged with the queer movement and the legal struggle for decriminalisation of homosexuality in India. In this article, I outline three key moments in Baxi’s engagement with queer politics—his foreword to the groundbreaking 2003 PUCL-K report on human rights violations against the transgender community in Karnataka, his public responses to the Delhi High Court’s Naz Foundation decision in 2009, and its overruling by the Supreme Court in the Koushal judgment in 2013. I conclude by selecting parts of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Navtej Singh Johar overturning Koushal, that resonate strongly with Baxi’s writing on this theme.
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