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.
DELHI GAY TRAVEL
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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.
GAY PEOPLE INDIA LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE AND ’S TIME WE TALK ABOUT S MENTAL HEALTH IMPLITNS
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. “They wrote, ‘Congratulatns to my homosexual iends’. “The iology of marryg a woman and havg children here is eply rooted, ” says Shubhankar Mondal, a medil stunt and one of the few openly gay people at his llege the cy.