Aditya Bandopadhyay  Aditya Bandopadhyay (sometimes transliterated at Bondyopadhyay, born February 1972) is a lawyer and LGBTQ rights activist in India, helping to challenge anti-sodomy laws, establishing advocacy organizations and providing legal services to HIV/AIDS organizations. Bondyopadhyay is a lawyer in New Delhi, India. Bondyopadhyay grew up mostly in Agra, Uttar Pradesh State, India, though he spent parts of his childhood in Assam, India. Over the years Bondyopadhyay has lived in Indian cities of Agra, Chabua, Guwahati, Kolkata, and Delhi. He first attended Calcutta University and thereafter studied Law at the University of Burdwan, both in West Bengal, India. Bondyopadhyay has been an activist for the LGBTQ rights since 1993. Bondyopadhyay played a leading role in the movement to decriminalize of sodomy in India. He also works with the HIV/AIDS movement in South Asia for prevention intervention of male to male sexual [MSM] transmission and for care support and treatment issues of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and MSM. As part of his work he has been associated with the Lawyers Collective, one of India’s leading Human Rights Groups, and with the Naz Foundation a London-based agency that has helped set up over forty community owned HIV projects for MSM in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. He also coordinated the Secretariat of the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM)] from its inception in October 2006 until December 2008. In 2001, he represented four employees of the NAZ Foundation and Bharosa Trust (an NGO in the city of Lucknow, India with the mission of HIV prevention efforts within the MSM community) who were charged with conspiracy to commit sodomy and possession of obscene material after a raid of their offices. He also ensured the unsealing of the offices after the raid and the continuation of organization's work. He was also part of the legal team that aided Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s leading LGBTQ rights organization, in defending a challenge to their existence and functioning brought before the Nepali Supreme Court. He was part of the legal team that researched and drafted the petition filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutionality of India’s anti-sodomy law, Section 377 Indian Penal Code. This petition (Naz Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others) resulted in the 2 July 2009 decision of the Delhi High Court decriminalizing homosexuality in India and reading down the Section 377 to imply that it shall not apply to private adult consensual sexual activity.