IAS hband's sexualy ma Shakuntala Devi fight for gay rights

Contents:

• I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
• WHEN IAS HBAND’S SEXUALY MA INDIA’S ‘HUMAN COMPUTER’ FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• WAS SHAKUNTALA DEVI’S HBAND GAY?

I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD

While Shakuntala Devi’s extraordary abily to solve plited arhmetil problems wh apparent ease and astonishg speed astound the world, we are equally awe of how and why she led a fight agast the crimalisatn of homosexualy. One would prume that the realisatn that she had married a gay man would have turned her world upsi down. It probably was a ep shock, but Shakuntala rose above and ma a genue effort to study the plight of the gay muny India.

WHEN IAS HBAND’S SEXUALY MA INDIA’S ‘HUMAN COMPUTER’ FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

While still married to Bannerji, she started speakg to members of the gay muny still ‘ the closet’, same-sex upl livg abroad and India.

Compilg her rearch and terviews her book, ‘The World of Homosexuals, ’ she tried to brg their stggl to the notice of the mastream.

WAS SHAKUNTALA DEVI’S HBAND GAY?

Today, the book is also nsired to be one of the first prehensive studi of beg gay India, makg Shakuntala Devi revered as an early pneer morn India’s fight for gay rights. “My only qualifitn for wrg this book is that I am a human beg, ” she had documented, llg for “full and plete acceptance, not jt tolerance and sympathy” for those who intify as gay.

“This nceptn of homosexualy as a ‘ndn’ and the behavur supports merely operat as a form of social ntrol a society which homosexualy is nmned… The time is overdue now, when rather than pretendg that homosexuals don’t exist, or hopg to eradite them by the sheer weight of disapproval or prison sentenc, we face the facts squarely the eye and fd room for them so that they n live unfettered and unmolted, and make their ntributn to the mon good of muny.