Sectn 377 Verdict: My Partner Was Gang-Raped, We Couldn't Tell The Cops: A Gay Man's Story

Contents:

• 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 RAPE

"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.

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

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.

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

(ABC News: Som Patidar)When the ABC vised five quack therapist tents around Delhi, two of them admted to offerg therapi to treat homosexualy.

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

"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".

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

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.

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.