10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the World - Insir Monkey

Contents:

• 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
• GOVT. SUBMS DATA ON GAY POPULATN
• INDIA HAS 2.5M GAYS, ERNMENT TELLS SUPREME URT
• INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV
• DELHI GAY TRAVEL

10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual.

It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. “We are talented enough to get a job but we are lookg for a safe and clive place, ” she is part of a growg number of activists advotg for India’s lbian and gay muny, which has grown bolr the past year.

GOVT. SUBMS DATA ON GAY POPULATN

”“In the first six months after the Supreme Court lg, we handled about 64 crisis suatns, ” says Vivek Anand, 58-year-old chief executive officer of The Humsafar Tst, a non-prof that has been advotg for gay rights for 25 ced an cint om earlier this year when a gay man om Nagpur, a small town central India, was acsted by a group of men one eveng on the street, and asked to perform sexual acts for them.

Published on June 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm by Lists Our list of 10 untri wh the Biggt Gay Populatn the World is likely to tch you by surprise as you’re gog to fd some of the most nservative untri this list as well. Countri like England, Brazil, Wal and France have allowed same-sex marriag recently, which make a total of 17 untri where gay marriag are acceptable. However, there are some untri where gay marriage is allowed certa areas for example, 18 stat the US allow their cizens to marry the partner of their choice.

INDIA HAS 2.5M GAYS, ERNMENT TELLS SUPREME URT

Today some of the most succsful TV shows are hosted by people, who are gay, for example, Ellen DeGener is pretty open about her marriage to Portia, her wife.

So, if you are wonrg about which untri are the most tolerant and nta the largt amount of gay populatn, then you have e to the right place. India The largt mocratic untry the world is also at the seventh spot on our list of 10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the World.

For some this might e as a surprise as Cha is not known as a untry that supports or promot topics like gay, lbian or bisexual but sce is the biggt populatn on Earth also has the hight number of gay people. 10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the WorldCanadaChaFranceIndiaItalyList XFanceNetherlandsPhilippSlishowTaiwanUned KgdomUned StatShow ls.

INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV

Chennai: As the Supreme Court of India has fally put an end to the crimalizatn of homosexualy unr Sectn 377 India, data om opn polls dit that societal acceptance might still be some way off.

Between 1990 and 2014, the share of Indian rponnts the WVS who believed “homosexualy is never jtifiable" fell om 89% to 24%—om an overwhelmg majory to a clear mory.

DELHI GAY TRAVEL

The fastt cle views agast homosexualy me the late 90s, while the Naz Foundatn judgement by the Delhi high urt crimalizg gay sex me only 2009. Wh 30% of Indian rponnts broadly supportive of homosexualy 2014 (the rt range om somewhat opposed to pletely opposed), the WVS plac India towards the liberal top of the distributn of 60 untri. In 2014, unmarried upl and people om a different relign or part of the untry were ls sirable as neighbours than homosexuals for survey rponnts.

For parison, fewer people thought that cheatg on tax or avoidg a fare on public transport was never jtifiable than those that thought homosexualy was never jtifiable.

Younger people across the world tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy than olr people, and acceptance of gay marriage has sharply accelerated the wtern world. 30 per ernment affidav was filed pliance wh the Supreme Court’s directn seekg tailed rmatn on the number of gays the untry and how many of them have ernment submted that there has been an overall rctn of HIV prevalence, HIV cince (new fectns) as well as aths due to AIDS-related bee of s AIDS ntrol programme.

Earlier, gay rights activists me out support of crimalisatn of homosexual behavur among nsentg adults private sayg that would help brgg them natnal Naz Foundatn, an NGO, workg for the welfare and rehabilatn of people wh the HIV, submted that crimalisg gay sex will lead to preventg gays e out the open. Sghvi then asked him to place reports and studi done by experts to substantiate his the last hearg on Febary 29, 2012 var social and relig anisatns had vehemently opposed crimalisatn of gay sex sayg that allowg such acts would lead to a “horrendo” Delhi High Court had 2009 crimalised gay sex as provid Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC) and had led that sex between two nsentg adults of same sex private would not be an offence. Sectn 377 (unnatural offenc) of the IPC mak gay sex a crimal offence entailg punishment up to life Supreme Court is hearg petns filed by anti-gay rights activists as also by polil, social and relig anisatns, which have opposed the High Court verdict.

Lack of knowledge about homosexualy and apprehensn about the social narrative around alternative sexualy means that the above qutns are on that several gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people nont every day India. It is India's first dicted 24x7 helple for the queer muny (which clus gay, lbian and transgenr), and aims at answerg queri on health and psychologil issu. 'Homework'Last month, the Supreme Court cricised the ernment for s shiftg stand on the issue of crimalisg gay was after a senr ernment lawyer, PP Malhotra, told the urt that homosexualy was unnatural and hours, the home mistry disowned the lawyer's statement and said he had read om an out-of-date health mistry then stated that supported the 2009 Delhi High Court orr crimalisg gay GS Sghvi and SJ Mhopadhyaya cricised the ernment for not dog s "homework" on the se and orred the ernment to provi a unt of the untry's homosexual populatn for the next hearg.

"You should have done your homework before g to the urt, " they told an 2009 lg crimalisg gay sex was weled by India's gay muny, which said the judgement would help protect them om harassment and people India still regard same-sex relatnships as illegimate, but rights groups have long argued that the law ntravened human rights.