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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. 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.
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”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. The followg year the Supreme Court of New Delhi crimalized homosexualy and repealed Sectn 377 of the penal , which led unnstutnal.
“This article [Sectn 377] was very rarely ed India, but was a sword of Damocl hangg over our heads, and ntributed to the nonregnn of homosexuals India, ” explas Rajeev, a gay activist om the Naz Foundatn Tst, an anizatn that fought for the crimalizatn of homosexualy and was supported by many Bollywood wrers and actors as well as by Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize wner enomics, and by the famo Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the only royal prce to be openly gay. ”Unr prsure om the relig lobbi that appealed, the Supreme Court reversed s cisn December 2013 and th recrimalized homosexualy.
When I met him 2015 his prtig New Delhi office, he nfirmed that he would “file a new bill on behalf of the Left [the Congrs Party] to reverse the cisn of the Court and fally crimalize homosexualy India once and for all.
WHAT DO MEAN TO BE A GAY DOCTOR INDIA?
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” This great secular lady, like many of my terlocutors New Delhi, criciz the lg party of the Right that is currently power — Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Indian People’s Party — for havg renewed ti wh an “archaic and anachronistic” Hdu natnalism that she unhatgly characteriz as sexist, homophobic, and antifemist.
Beg a gay-iendly figure, this Bollywood producer neverthels believ that India needs to evolve on the gay India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy taboo.
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