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Contents:

• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY HDI
• HDI TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'
• INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA
• HDUISM AND GAYS: ACCEPTANCE, Y. APPROVAL, NO
• GAY MUNICH
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY HDI

While Hdu sacred texts do not specifilly e those terms (heterosexual and homosexual), they do distguish between procreative sexual acts (wh marriage) and non-procreative sexual acts such as oral, etc.

HDI TRANSLATN OF 'GAY'

The Hdu Amerin Foundatn, s policy brief on Hd and Homosexualy, not that Hduism do not provi a fundamental spirual reason to reject or ostracize LGBTQ dividuals, and that, “Given their herent spirual equaly, Hd should not socially ostracize LGBT dividuals, but should accept them as fellow sojourners on the path to moksha. The Gay & Lbian Vaishnava Associatn (GALVA) highlights, s report Homosexualy, Hduism and the Third Genr, the genr fluidy of Hdu i, and not that “everythg this world is a reflectn of the origal subtle and spirual realy. Gay & Lbian Vaishnava Associatn, a nonprof relig anizatn offerg posive rmatn and support to LGBTQI Vaishnavas and Hd, their iends, and other terted Amerin Foundatn, an advocy anizatn promotg human digny, mutual rpect, and pluralism.

For earlier perds, cludg Hdu scriptur, legal, medil, and erotic treatis, lerature, and art, see the separate Oxford Biblgraphi article Homoeroticism Hduism.

In 2016, Dattatreya Hosabale, senr lear of the BJP’s ally, the Hdu anizatn Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the world’s largt volunteer anizatn, stated that homosexualy should be crimalized. Trikone, published 1986–2014 om San Francis, was an LGBT magaze for South Asians, found by gay male uple Ashok Jethanandani and Arvd Kumar (Arvd’s mother, a Hdu gu, prid over their weddg). ” The sect, which has grown exponentially worldwi recent years, has creasgly e around to acceptg Wilhelm’s view, which, however, is not accepted by many Hd who view themselv as gay or lbian women and men, and not as a third, Murali, ed.

INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA

A eful troductn by the edor plac ntext an say, “Creatg Spac for Progrsive Voic Hduism: My Experience wh the Queer Hdu Blogosphere, ” by Shikhandi (a psdonym), an Amerin gay Hdu blogger. This pneerg book, argug for crimalizatn of homosexualy, was wrten by a world-rerd-holdg woman mathematician who was married to a homosexual man.

The book is the first to nta terviews wh gay and bisexual Hdu men; also ntas an important terview Devi nducted wh the head prit of a major Hdu temple, Srirangam, South India. The thor, a whe Amerin Hdu prit of ISKCON (Internatnal Society for Krishna Conscns) and founr of GALVA-108 (Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn), argu that all LGBT people nstute a third sex.

Amara Das Wilhelm (of) scrib the var kds of homosexual mal and femal and also the of human sexualy and genr ancient Hdu/Vedic society his book "Triya-Prakri: People of the Third Sex: Unrstandg Homosexualy, Transgenr Inty, and Intersex Condns Through Hduism. And while the reproductive nnectn between man and woman has always been revered the fah, Hduism, unlike most Wtern fahs, historilly treats homosexualy as a natural behavr, one documented folk tale and relig text alike. Includ the rvgs are a number of pictns of gay sex, sometim y suatns where several women are volved terurse wh a sgle man, but there also are imag of men havg sex and engagg fellat wh one another.

HDUISM AND GAYS: ACCEPTANCE, Y. APPROVAL, NO

Mra and VanaThe sons of Adi om Vedic lerature are picted equently as ins for brotherly affectn and timate iendship between men, acrdg to the Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn. Tell him to grab that py of the Kama Sutra he keeps a drser drawer and read Chapter 9, which addn to offerg stctn on fellat mak clear that this skill n also be ed acceptably homosexual teractns.

GAY MUNICH

Image source, Sameer SamudraImage ptn, Sameer (L) and Am stggled to fd a Hdu prit willg to marry themExclud by tradnal marriage ceremoni, Indian-Amerin gay upl the US are fdg new and unique ways to solemnise their unns, reports Sava Patel.

Templ refg to host same-sex weddgs, prits hangg up on their phone lls or unwillg to tweak the ceremony to su them and, some s, not even showg up on the day of the weddg - the experienc have driven Indian-Amerin gay upl to fall back on iends and well-wishers to create unique ceremoni rooted their culture.

Ashok Sanghavi is a Ja prit who works as a tax nsultant - his vios om 2019 of Vaibhav Ja and Parag Mehta's gay Ja weddg spired many gay upl worldwi. Rellg a recent gay weddg where he officiated, he add "The elrly parents of the groom thanked me wh tears their ey 'for givg our son a place our culture'.

SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

" Sava Patel is an pennt journalist based San Francis, where she vers geo-polics, tech, public health and the Indian ptn, India's gay prce opens his palace for LGBT muny. Views about homosexualy18-2930-4950-6465+Sample sizeShould be accepted41%53%3%2%125Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state. Views about homosexualyYounger MillennialOlr MillennialGeneratn XBaby BoomerSilentGreattSample sizeShould be accepted15%44%35%3%2%< 1%125Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.

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