Yesterday was a remarkable day for our country, as we made our way to the pages of history for having achieved something that's still a distant dream for a lot of LGBT people across the world. Millions in the country rejoiced over Section 377 being decriminalised and we totally get their sentiments and share in their joy.

Many people have also taken this opportunity to share some of their most intimate stories about the fears and struggles they had to face in the past when Section 377 still held its post. But yesterday's judgement has not only brought lively hopes in the hearts of the LGBT community but has also made them share their stories of love and freedom.

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Danish Sheikh, a law professor and an LGBTQ activist, is one such ecstatic person who shared his joy on the verdict through a string of tweets, which has since stolen hearts and gone viral. 

Twitterati can't help but be charmed by his story of finally coming out with his encounters, now that he has the rights to admit them and share them with the world!

Here's the Twitter thread and his story for you to go all mushy over:

I was 13 when I first fell in love with a boy. I didn't realize it then. I only knew that I was willing to learn 9th grade Sanskrit without any prior knowledge of the language just to be in a class with him.  (1/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

I was 16 when I fell in love with another boy. This time, I knew what it was, but was able to successfully convince myself it was a phase - or even better, that it was a one-off kind of love, that I'd just as easily fall for a woman. (2/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

I was 17 when I realized that I wasn't going to fall for women. That year, for the first time I spoke the words that would make the jigsaw confusion of the last 6 years fall into place. "I'm gay" I said, sitting in the dark, practicing the utterance. (3/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

I was 18 when I began reading about the law that was not on my side, and when I began to see how its existence seemed to validate the silences that had slowly accrued. (4/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

I was 19 when I fell in love with a man, sense what it could mean for love to be reciprocated and then what it could mean for it to be lost. (5/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

Read on to understand what many others like him must have been through over the last few years.

I was 24 when the Supreme Court delivered the  Suresh Kumar Koushal judgment and told me that the rights I assumed were part of my innate humanity did not in fact exist. (6/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

The Koushal Court's words were weighted down with prejudice and hate. I laughed and brushed them off but they often became an unsaid justification to tolerate casual indignities in public or casual cruelties in private. (7/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

I am 29. The highest constitutional court of my country has finally told me that
I am, unambiguously, an equal citizen. That I have, unambiguously, the right to love. (8/9)

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

About fucking time. #377Verdict

— Danish Sheikh (@dsheikh726) September 6, 2018

This last tweet is basically all of us who have waited for a positive verdict with bated breath, all this while. About time we say, and the time is now. Congratulations Danish and y'all enthu cutlets too!