Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn.
Contents:
A DOSE OF THE GAY CASTE SYSTEM
* gay caste system *
A Dose of The Gay Caste System.
Wele to The Gayly Dose.
Go to any gay bar or venue and you will see this fn applied to real life. Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn.
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
"We are far om beg a gay-iendly untry. Bobby, a activist (I know only his first name), has ved me to a gay soirée one of the private clubs: the basement of a huge palace. The proportn of gays seems signifint, but the place is mixed, open, always discreet, and s are rpected, for good measure.
“You’re not Mumbai here; you are MumGay, ” he says, parodyg the tle of a short Indian gay film, “BomGay, ” which generated some buzz at the time of s release 1996. Later the eveng, Bobby explas that India homosexualy is characterized, as often is Asia, by the classil try: crimalizatn, social disapproval, and the police’s nonenforcement of the law. He adds: “For a long time, the ernment would not crimalize homosexualy for the sake of ‘ntament, ’ but didn’t want to thorize for fear of makg a public issue.
”The ia of “ntament” — an Amerin diplomatic term referrg to the limatn of the Communist ntagn — is que a relative notn a untry whose Natnal AIDS Control Organizatn rmally timat has at least 70 ln India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy yet thgs evolve.