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Contents:
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
- WHAT DO MEAN TO BE A GAY DOCTOR INDIA?
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
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Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn. Bobby, a activist (I know only his first name), has ved me to a gay soirée one of the private clubs: the basement of a huge palace. The proportn of gays seems signifint, but the place is mixed, open, always discreet, and s are rpected, for good measure.
“You’re not Mumbai here; you are MumGay, ” he says, parodyg the tle of a short Indian gay film, “BomGay, ” which generated some buzz at the time of s release 1996. Later the eveng, Bobby explas that India homosexualy is characterized, as often is Asia, by the classil try: crimalizatn, social disapproval, and the police’s nonenforcement of the law.
10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
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He adds: “For a long time, the ernment would not crimalize homosexualy for the sake of ‘ntament, ’ but didn’t want to thorize for fear of makg a public issue.
”The ia of “ntament” — an Amerin diplomatic term referrg to the limatn of the Communist ntagn — is que a relative notn a untry whose Natnal AIDS Control Organizatn rmally timat has at least 70 ln India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy yet thgs evolve. In June 2008, Gay Pri gathered a few thoand people the Indian pal, an event that is well vered by the natnal prs.
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The followg year the Supreme Court of New Delhi crimalized homosexualy and repealed Sectn 377 of the penal , which led unnstutnal.