What 's Like to be Gay Corporate India | Accenture

Contents:

• WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY RPORATE INDIA?
• ARE GAY JOBS INDIA

WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY RPORATE INDIA?

The readg down of Sectn 377 by the Supreme Court 2018 led to a fundamental shift the rights of India’s LGBTQ cizens and necsated policy chang across the board - not least the world of Indian Queeristan, Parmh Shahani, Vice Print at Godrej Indtri Ltd, draws om his -long journey the rporate world as an out and proud gay man, to make a gent se for LGBTQ cln and rhapg India’s office thor begs by sharg his life’s experienc towards beg an advote for LGBTQ cln. 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.

ARE GAY JOBS INDIA

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