Acknowledgg that you intify as gay is one thg. However, is the stigma that you have to fight that tak a toll on your mental health.
Contents:
- ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
- DELHI GAY TRAVEL
- GAY PEOPLE INDIA LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE AND ’S TIME WE TALK ABOUT S MENTAL HEALTH IMPLITNS
‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
A landmark lg legalised gay sex the untry 2018, yet the LGBT muny still face stigma and vlence * life of a gay man 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.
DELHI GAY TRAVEL
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The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight. When India’s supreme urt announced was legalisg gay sex, people hugged twos and thre on the lawns outsi the Delhi urthoe. A law agast “unnatural sex” enshred by the lonial Brish ernment (and fend by succsive Indian on) was unanimoly led to no longer prohib homosexual acts.
The reverberatns of the cisn – on sheer numbers, perhaps the largt sgle act of gay liberatn ever – are still ripplg across a vast, diverse and nservative untry.
GAY PEOPLE INDIA LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE AND ’S TIME WE TALK ABOUT S MENTAL HEALTH IMPLITNS
“They wrote, ‘Congratulatns to my homosexual iends’.