During the Aurat March in Pakistan, participants chanted slogans for women's rights and were joined by transgender people, whom the police stopped to question.
Siddiqui was arrested under the IPC sections for unnatural sex, wrongful confinement, assault, and threatening the victim. Siddiqui has been remanded to police custody.
Brinton, an MIT grad, used to conduct a workshop called 'Kink 101' on college campuses and worked as an 'anti-conversion therapy activist'. He is also a member of a drag queen society called 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' which mocks catholic nuns with sexually explicit innuendoes.