Shelly Bhalla is proud to play Krishna on “Jane the Virg,” who is one of the first few gay Indian characters on the small screen.
Contents:
- “CHASTE HARLOTS” ON GAY MONOGAMY ISKCON
- KRISHNA IMAGE GAY MAGAZE SPARKS DEATH THREATS
- WHO IS PETRA’S GAY SECRETARY FROM ‘JANE THE VIRG’?
- ISKCON PERFORMS THE FIRST HARE KRISHNA GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONY BRAZIL
- ISKCON PERFORMS THE FIRST HARE KRISHNA GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONY BRAZIL
“CHASTE HARLOTS” ON GAY MONOGAMY ISKCON
Bee I was pecially terted the genred divisns rual practic, I chanced a meetg wh members of GALVA; the Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn, who were, at the time, anisg an onle platform to prott India’s crimalisatn of homosexualy unr Penal Co 377. This is particularly important bee the view of many Hdu fundamentalists (Hdutva) India and nservative news anisatns the Wt is to pat homosexualy South Asia as a lonial imposn ditive of a kd of Wternisatn that is anthetil to “tradnal” Indian culture. While Halberstam is wrg specifilly about “female masculi”, I wish to offer a possible unter analysis of Krishna’s particular mol of genr and sexualy among gay and lbian-intified GALVA participants.
It is this multiplicy of masculy that the gay and lbian terlocutors I met Wt Bengal, as well as menters on GALVA’s foms, are engagg wh their drive towards inti that are queer, Vaishnava, and Indian.
KRISHNA IMAGE GAY MAGAZE SPARKS DEATH THREATS
This allows them to circumvent the narrative that homosexual and transgenred persons are distctly rpted by Wtern fluenc. “Lovg Well: Homosexualy and Utopian Thought Post/Colonial India. Homosexualy.
> i jt want your opn about Homosexualy? But otherwise sex, be homosexual or hetrosexual is simply meant for the pleasure of the sens of the people volved.
Tags: gay, Hare Krishna, homosexualy, Society. And while the reproductive nnectn between man and woman has always been revered the fah, Hduism, unlike most Wtern fahs, historilly treats homosexualy as a natural behavr, one documented folk tale and relig text alike. Includ the rvgs are a number of pictns of gay sex, sometim y suatns where several women are volved terurse wh a sgle man, but there also are imag of men havg sex and engagg fellat wh one another.
WHO IS PETRA’S GAY SECRETARY FROM ‘JANE THE VIRG’?
Mra and VanaThe sons of Adi om Vedic lerature are picted equently as ins for brotherly affectn and timate iendship between men, acrdg to the Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn.
The Kama SutraWant proof to show your homophobic uncle that same-sex unns have been regnized by fah lears for thoands of years?
Tell him to grab that py of the Kama Sutra he keeps a drser drawer and read Chapter 9, which addn to offerg stctn on fellat mak clear that this skill n also be ed acceptably homosexual teractns. When we see the ntext of the current laws agast homosexualy, based on lonial laws, shows that risted sexual norms and the monly perceived genr bary. Spoken more subtly than directly, chang of sex, homoerotic enunters, and tersex or third genr characters are very often found the epics, the Puranas and regnal folklore.
ISKCON PERFORMS THE FIRST HARE KRISHNA GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONY BRAZIL
While the reproductive nnectn between man and woman has always been honoured, homosexualy and LGBT them have been documented through ancient lerature and folk tal, art and performg arts alike. There are several stanc of homosexual or bisexual activy not always for rivg sexual pleasure.
The homoerotic subtext and other abovementned stanc and characters, operate wh a distct worldview yet acmodatg genr and sexual variance, generally accepted and woven to the narrative of the epics and the ancient texts as typilly occurrg or done. The term “gay monogamy” is ed to argue that homosexualy wh a sgle partner is of a superr qualy pared to ordary homosexual behavr. The reemg word “monogamy” is tend to elevate ordary gay behavr up to a level of rpectabily or acceptable moraly.
Th the meang of “gay monogamy” rri ntradictory nuanc of homosexual moraly, which, at least to my md, is as absurd as troducg the exprsn “chaste harlots. Consirg the term “gay monogamy, ” we will first of all try to clarify the imports of both words dividually and then discs them bed.
ISKCON PERFORMS THE FIRST HARE KRISHNA GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONY BRAZIL
The word “gay” is primarily fed as: 1) someone who practic homosexualy; or 2) someone havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sex. Concerng the send fn, one may, other words, be attracted that way but may not dulge homosexual activy of a physil nature. This paper will e the first fn of “gay” namely, “a practicg homosexual.