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.
PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight. 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. This pletely exclus live- upl, most sgle parents and the LGBTQ+ 2016, then mister for external affairs Shma Swaraj had said surrogacy was not an optn for gay upl bee “don’t go wh our ethos” Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulatn) Bill, 2020, which was referred to a standg mtee October last year, seeks to regulate assisted reproductive technology (ART) servic India.
While heterosexual married upl and sgle women n accs the same, those live- and homosexual relatnships as well as transgenr and tersex dividuals are aga stripped of their reproductive tonomy. ”Also read: Grdr, PlaRomeo, Gayglers — rporate queerns reached India. If the law begs to regnise queer partnerships and parenthood, society’s acceptance will slowly follow, ” she Cross, an actor-director Delhi who intifi as gay, believ that the media and entertament dtry n play a signifint role raisg awarens and normalisg the ncept of queer parenthood, as has been done through popular televisn shows like Morn Fay the Uned Stat.
In 2020, a uple of public tert ligatns (PILs) were filed the Delhi and Kerala high urts for the legalisatn of homosexual marriage. PUNE, India (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - After her son me out as gay, Shma Samudra nsulted astrologers, quizzed psychiatrists, performed prayers and implored gods and godss to cure his abnormaly.