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The answer came in 2016 when Menaka Guruswamy, a constitutional lawyer friend, suggested it was time to give a human face to the 20-year-old legal battle to decriminalise gay sex one that until then had been led by various NGOs. “What could I and all the others do? Go back into the closet?” he says. They sat there, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Gay sex was once again a criminal offence. Yet five years later, shortly before Christmas 2013, Mehra found himself sitting in the same coffee shop with friends, trying to digest the fact that the supreme court had overturned the 2009 ruling. ‘More than once, we were told by other gay people that we should be role models.’ Mehra and Johar in 1998. Mehra himself marked the historic occasion by writing for the BBC website about his experiences during the long journey: “Through it all, it has been an effort to hold one’s head high, walk lonely but proud and repeat ad nauseam to oneself: I’m a good man. (Johar is performing in the US and speaks to me later on the telephone.) In the course of an emotional conversation, tears often surge up, choking Mehra as he recalls the Delhi high court verdict in 2009 that legalised gay sex, leading to celebrations by tens of thousands of gay people. The air is thick with moisture, but Mehra looks fresh and relaxed. If, as is widely expected, the court rules in the next few weeks to legalise gay sex, members of the LGBT community in India will no longer feel, as a lawyer for the petitioners said in court, like “unconvicted felons”.Why did Mehra choose to propel himself into the limelight? We meet over coffee on a muggy morning in Green Park, a well-to-do Delhi neighbourhood. Their petition was accompanied by a clutch of others from gay and lesbian personalities who had previously been equally private about their sexuality. Johar, 59, travels the world as an award-winning bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and yoga teacher. Mehra, 63, is a well-known journalist (the former editor of the Indian edition of Maxim magazine), actor and exponent of dastangoi, a 13th-century form of oral storytelling that has seen a revival in recent years.