‘There are few gay people India’: stigma lgers spe legal victory | Human rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• ÍNDIA SCRIMALIZA SEXO GAY, QUE ADA é NSIRADO ILEGAL EM 71 PAíS
• INDIA’S LGBT MUNY REACTS TO SECTN 377 GAY SEX LG
• INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
• WHY LEGALISG GAY SEX INDIA IS NOT A WTERN IA
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• GAY INDIA

ÍNDIA SCRIMALIZA SEXO GAY, QUE ADA é NSIRADO ILEGAL EM 71 PAíS

Índia scrimaliza sexo gay, que ada é nsirado ilegal em 71 país7 setembro 2018Em uma cisão históri nta quta-feira, a Suprema Corte da Índia scrimalizou o sexo dos juíz disse que a "História via sculpas" aos dianos LGBTs. O veto ao sexo gay foi trazido para a Índia pelo Impér Brâni em meados do século 19, em uma épo em que o cror Osr Wil foi pro por se motivo. Atualmente, após cisão da Índia, isso orre em 71 país, ardo a Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (Associação Internacnal Gays e Lésbis).

A landmark judgment by India’s hight urt has overturned a lonial-era law that crimaliz nsensual gay sex, a hard-fought victory for the LGBTQ muny. The urt verdict is a major tone for LGBTQ-intifyg people across the untry, where homosexualy remas a social taboo and gay people face enmic discrimatn.

INDIA’S LGBT MUNY REACTS TO SECTN 377 GAY SEX LG

” India jos 17 Commonwealth natns that have overturned laws crimalizg homosexualy, a legacy left behd most of the natns by the former Brish lonial lers. ” The lg may also help dismantle the stigma attached to HIV and AIDS among gay men as the law imped many om seekg the medil re they need.

New Delhi’s High Court crimalized homosexualy among nsentg adults 2009, only to be later overturned by the untry’s Supreme Court 2012, followg appeals om relig groups. “I thought this would send a msage to people ral areas as they would likely take the word of a scientist who is livg as an openly-gay man. He says spreadg awarens to remote areas is a major hurdle as a majory of people the regns nsir homosexualy a disease, or at bt, a phase.

Even though Hdu and Mlim groups cid to stand back and not legally challenge the petn, members om all relig groups have vociferoly fend their anti-gay stand speech and media appearanc.

INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG

Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was. There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home. To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”.

WHY LEGALISG GAY SEX INDIA IS NOT A WTERN IA

The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight. Indian Supreme Court Jtice Dipak Misra quoted Shakpeare as he read out the unanimo lg of five judg to legalize gay sex.

Sheikh, a law profsor at the Sonipat-based Jdal Global Law School, is one of many LGBT Indians who have fought for years to overturn the untry’s dranian anti-gay laws, hered om the former Brish lonial ernment. Sheikh’s polil awakeng me part due to another Supreme Court lg 2013, which reversed a landmark lg by the Delhi High Court that a ban on gay sex vlated cizens’ fundamental rights. “They reacted wh anger and sorrow, then took me to a psychiatrist who rmed all of that homosexualy was a mental disorr, possibly the rult of a tumor my hypothalam, which he uld cure wh aggrsive stant treatment, ” he relled a Facebook post.

‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

“I me to India 2013, when they recrimalized gay sex, and five years down the le thgs are lookg up and that giv you hope. As the fight now turns to the broar issu of acceptance and legal protectns for gay upl – and potentially the issue of same-sex marriage – many India’s LGBT muny are still revelg their victory.

GAY INDIA

India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn.

Thursday’s historic lg is the culmatn of a lengthy and often ght legal battle for equaly a untry where homosexualy remas taboo.

In s 2013 lg, the Supreme Court said that only a “mcule actn of the untry’s populatn nstute lbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenrs” and was therefore “legally unstaable” to repeal the act. Durg the latt heargs, lawyers reprentg more than a dozen gay and lbian Indians qutned the nstutnal basis of that earlier lg.

In an terview earlier this year, lawmaker Subramanian Swamy, a proment member of the lg Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), scribed the legalizatn of gay sex as a “danger to natnal secury” and “agast Hdutva.

Out of the timated 48 former Brish loni that crimalize homosexualy, 30 still have laws based on the origal lonial anti-LGBT legislatn, acrdg to Lus Mendos, -thor of the 2017 Internatnal LGBTI Associatn “State-Sponsored Homophobia” report. At one place we have purely and strictly relig patg and sculptors like at Konark or at Jagganath Puri templ and at another place we have monuments like Khajuraho which is famo world over for s erotic arts and sculptors; this also clus sculptors wh homosexual activi.