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Contents:

• WAS GANDHI GAY? LETTERS BETWEEN MAHATMA GANDHI AND BODYBUILDG IEND FUEL SPECULATN ABOUT TE NATURE OF RELATNSHIP
• WAS GANDHI GAY? INTIMATE LETTERS GO ON DISPLAY INDIA
• GANDHI ON JEWS. PART 1: A JEWISH GAY LOVER
• THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
• WAS GANDHI GAY? NEW BOOK RAIS QUTN
• INDIAN STATE BANS GANDHI BOOK AFTER REVIEWS HT AT GAY RELATNSHIP
• INDIAN GOVERNMENT SPENDS $1.3 MILLN TO STOP AUCTN OF GANDHI LETTERS THAT MAY SHOW HE WAS GAY

WAS GANDHI GAY? LETTERS BETWEEN MAHATMA GANDHI AND BODYBUILDG IEND FUEL SPECULATN ABOUT TE NATURE OF RELATNSHIP

March 30, 2011 -- Was Mahatma Gandhi gay?

WAS GANDHI GAY? INTIMATE LETTERS GO ON DISPLAY INDIA

In a bgraphy that h stor this week -- "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Stggle Wh India, " former New York Tim reporter Lelyveld sists that Gandhi was gay, or at least lover was Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish archect and bodybuilr.

""And if he's a god, how n he be homosexual?

GANDHI ON JEWS. PART 1: A JEWISH GAY LOVER

"The Hdu relign, jt as Christiany, owns upon homosexualy, acrdg to Chakrabarty, who has wrten several books about Gandhi. But India today, discrimatn agast gays is illegal and many are open about their sexual Levyveld's book, the lovers' nicknam to each other were "Upper Hoe" and "Lower Hoe, " suggtg one may have been a stronger posn of book says Gandhi may have been the one to "thk ep thoughts" and Kallenbach was more preoccupied wh "matters of physil fns and everythg that's down to earth.

I know that some people still don’t buy that Gandhi was gay, but let me tell you, om experience, Gandhi liked guys.

THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA

Was Gandhi gay?

WAS GANDHI GAY? NEW BOOK RAIS QUTN

In 1995, Hunt's unpublished workg paper 'The Kallenbach papers and Tolstoy farm' said the relatnship was 'clearly homoerotic' and certaly not homosexual.

Hunt asserts that the relatnship was 'clearly homoerotic' while certaly not homosexual. " In an terview, Lelyveld also referred to Hunt's unpublished paper sayg, "One rpected Gandhi scholar characterized the relatnship as 'clearly homoerotic' rather than homosexual, tendg through that choice of words to scribe a strong mutual attractn, nothg more.

INDIAN STATE BANS GANDHI BOOK AFTER REVIEWS HT AT GAY RELATNSHIP

"They found the male bondg of Indian society que homoerotic. But the only evince Lelyveld giv the rear, suggtg the bondg of the two men was at least homoerotic if not homosexual, is a salac one-ler where Gandhi allegedly told Kallenback, "How pletely you have taken posssn of my body.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SPENDS $1.3 MILLN TO STOP AUCTN OF GANDHI LETTERS THAT MAY SHOW HE WAS GAY

While Gandhi may have been repulsed by heterosexualy he seems to be repulsed, at least publicly, by homosexualy, too.

For example, the 1930s, both Gandhi and Jawaharlal Neh attempted to erase all trac of the Indian homoerotic tradn om Indian templ as a rult of their systematic mpaigns of "sexual cleansg.