World Bank asks India for ‘gay’ visa

Charles Courmier, a gay World Bank official, is sad. The reason: he is married but cannot bring his partner into the country because of India’s outdated laws that don’t recognise a man’s marriage if his ‘wife’ happens to be a man.

Courmier, a Canadian national, is a country sector coordinator with the World Bank. He has been legally married since 2006. But while Canada allows same sex marriages, India does not recognise them. His partner has not been allowed to enter …