Raisg children India as gay parents, wh a set of challeng, Adya Advani shar his story.
Contents:
- L IS FOR LBIAN, G IS FOR GAY: INDIAN PARENTS LEARN ABC OF LGBT
- PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
L IS FOR LBIAN, G IS FOR GAY: INDIAN PARENTS LEARN ABC OF LGBT
After her son me out as gay, Shma Samudra nsulted astrologers, quizzed psychiatrists, performed prayers and implored gods and godss to cure his abnormaly. * gay parents in india *
In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. 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”. He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.
PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
That a sgle parent who adopts may “turn out to be gay or lbian” was one of their many Arora, executive director of adoptn agency Bal Asha Tst, says: “Currently, there is nothg the law that explicly stops or supports adoptn by LGBTQ+ people so we need more clary on that.