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• IN INDIA, GAY, LBIAN AND TRANS PEOPLE N FACE WCHDOCTORS, EXORCISTS AND 'RRECTIVE RAPE'
• GAY RAPE
• INTERVIEW-FILM LIFTS LID ON "RRECTIVE RAPE" FAI OF GAYS INDIA
• "MY PARTNER WAS GANG-RAPED, WE COULDN'T TELL THE COPS": A GAY MAN'S STORY
• GAY TEENS RAPED BY FAY MEMBERS A BID TO CURE THEIR HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY INDIAN MAN WHO WAS RAPED WANTS HIS STORY TOLD, THE VLENCE TO END

IN INDIA, GAY, LBIAN AND TRANS PEOPLE N FACE WCHDOCTORS, EXORCISTS AND 'RRECTIVE RAPE'

She fally fled home, fearg she might be forcibly married, or her father would send someone to rape her to change her sexualy, a hate crime known as "rrective rape" was eventually granted protectn by a Delhi urt when her parents tried to track her this was a time when homosexualy was still illegal India n be a dangero place for a gay woman, and Sonia scribed the ensug years on the n as "a lot of mental torture, emotnal torture, fancial torture". Jt like Sonia, a young gay uple the untry's south went to a judge for this time, the judge ma history. "I have no hatn acceptg that I too belong to the majory of moners who are yet to prehend homosexualy pletely, " Jtice N Anand Venkath wrote his orrs hand down June.

'We felt like we have created history' Jtice N Anand Venkath directed the Indian ernment and stat to ban nversn therapy and to act agast any person tryg to "cure" homosexualy. "Gay Indians still targeted by 'exorcists' and 'shamans' Sonia Sghal has appld the Madras High Court's lg, but she fears s lgs will have ltle impact beyond the state of Ta Nadu, where Shha and Sheema's se was heard. On the sis of the roads ci and towns, unregulated self-proclaimed medil experts — or quacks — n offer unproven remedi for a range of claim to have cur for homosexualy.

Self-proclaimed medil experts set up shop New Delhi and offer what they claim are "cur" for homosexualy. (ABC News: Som Patidar)When the ABC vised five quack therapist tents around Delhi, two of them admted to offerg therapi to treat homosexualy.

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"Homosexualy is a sex-related weakns, and s treatment is possible. " What next for gay rights India?

"This judge ed the word 'sex' and expands to read sexual orientatn, genr exprsn and genr inty, " Mr Manuraj judge also referred to a landmark Supreme Court se 2018, which overturned Brish lonial-era laws that crimalised same-sex relatns, statg that homosexualy was not unnatural, nor a "mental disorr or a disease". Lawyer Manuraj Shunmugasundaram helped a young gay uple get a protectn orr om their parents. Acrdg to fdgs by the crisis terventn team of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Collective India's Telangana state, there have been 15 stanc of 'rrective rap' reported the past five years.

The rape is ed as a 'disciplg project' orr to 'cure' and 'rrect' homosexualy.

INTERVIEW-FILM LIFTS LID ON "RRECTIVE RAPE" FAI OF GAYS INDIA

And so, they plot a 'rrective rape' on their dghter as well as the gay girl, " reveals the 27-year-old Guntur native, who has rorted to crowd-sourcg to raise funds for the film. NEW DELHI, June 11 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Fai India are g “rrective rape” to nvert their gay, lbian and transgenr sons and dghters, the director of the first Indian film on the issue said, urgg society to nont the btal, hidn practice. “There is this very nservative society where people are very aaid to tell anyone that their son is gay or dghter is lbian, and they thk that they n change their orientatn if they get them to ntact wh someone of the oppose sex, ” the 27-year-old director said an terview on Thursday.

"MY PARTNER WAS GANG-RAPED, WE COULDN'T TELL THE COPS": A GAY MAN'S STORY

”Tadanki said although was difficult to fd victims willg to speak about their oral, she me across two s the cy of Bengalu which were “horrific” one se, a young lbian was raped by her to make her “normal”, and another se, the fay of a gay man tried to make him have sex wh his mother. Homosexualy was re-crimalised India 2013, after four years of beg legal, a Supreme Court cisn that shocked rights groups. The Uned Natns lled a “signifint step backwards for India” 155-year-old Brish lonial law stat that “rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh any man, woman or animal” - wily terpreted to refer to gay sex - is punishable by up to 10 years jail.

GAY TEENS RAPED BY FAY MEMBERS A BID TO CURE THEIR HOMOSEXUALY

The Sectn 377 verdict is beg cheered by lns across India, far beyond the gay muny.

Michael's father did not approach the police after all the cintsNew Delhi: After the Supreme Court overled s own 2013 cisn and partially stck down Sectn 377, a ntroversial Brish-era law that banned nsensual gay sex, members of the LGBT muny shared stori kept hidn their hurt locker for years.

Delhi-based fashn signer Michael said his father did not approach the police when he was molted years 2013, when the Supreme Court ncelled the Delhi high urt orr and rtored the ban on homosexualy, Michael mtered the urage to go up to his father and qutn why he did not fight for his son and approach the police. "I am sure had Sectn 377 not been there probably he uld have had jtice, " he said, holdg back his says his partner would have gotten jtice had homosexualy not been a crime four years Thursday, India joed 125 other untri where homosexualy is legal after the Supreme Court unanimoly crimalised part of the 158-year-old law, sayg vlated the rights to equaly. IT’S unimagable to thk parents would get their own children raped to cure homosexualy.

GAY INDIAN MAN WHO WAS RAPED WANTS HIS STORY TOLD, THE VLENCE TO END

Now, if this girl happens to be queer and if is found out that she is a relatnship wh another girl, elrs the fay believe havg sex wh the ‘would-be’, even if ’s forcibly, will cure her, ” Vyjayanti 2013 the Indian Supreme Court restated a lonial law which banned gay sex. Ajay is probably one of those many men the untry, gay or otherwise, who face such harassment and gross jtice regularly.