Male Prostutn India : The Realy and Legal Issu wh Gay Prostutn - India

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”. 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.

WHY LEGALISG GAY SEX INDIA IS NOT A WTERN IA

“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.

“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. 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.

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

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.

GAY INDIA

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. But our morn society somehow has bee ls tolerant towards anythg which is not regular or mon acrdg to their llective perceptn; whether we study society’s behavr towards relig mori such as Islam or Christiany or s behavr towards sexual mori such as gays, lbians or bisexuals.

This same sex attractn or orientatn is known as Homosexualy and persons wh such orientatn are lled as Homosexuals. Another term LGBT is also monly ed for persons wh homosexual orientatns; LGBT beg abbreviatn of Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans-genrs.

Discrimatns faced by homosexuals our society are at var levels; begng om wh their hom to outsi world as a whole. In other words, LGBT social actn groups are mandg that if two nsentg adults of same sex are volved homosexual activi, should not be a crimal offence. But this potential would not be realized until and unls we as a society will not be able to eely accept and discs so-lled taboo issu such as homosexualy.

It is evint that the unnatural act of homosexualy will be a taboo subject to the society as well as the ernment. However, male prostutn is still low profile if we pare to the exclively homosexual prostutn, more monly known as the gay prostut. Wh the legalizatn and liberalizatn of the homosexuals, ci like Kolkata are wnsg an alarmg spread of gay prostutn rackets.

Illegal tradnal flh tra ‘jots’ that has been prevly closed down by the police have reopened, now terg to this new trend of sexual preference and earng a substantial missn om the gay prostut. The earlier legal problems of flh tra, police raids and lol goons are no longer of any nsequence sce homosexual activi are legal as opposed to tradnal flh tra. Acrdg to a survey nducted by PLUS, an anizatn for the welfare of gay prostut around 1000 homosexual sex workers are now operative Kolkata (although the actual figure may be much more, pared to 100 – 150 the last two years).

The cross-drsed gay prostut are like a bad sk disease on the cyspe and should be abolished immediately before they further fect the Cy Of Joy. When clil psychologist Lata Hemchand, PhD, began her private practice Bangalore, India, almost four s ago, she viewed her homosexual patients the way she was tght to at one of India’s top trag stutns—as sexual viants.