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Contents:

• 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
• INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV
• FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• GAY INDIA

10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

Published on June 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm by Lists Our list of 10 untri wh the Biggt Gay Populatn the World is likely to tch you by surprise as you’re gog to fd some of the most nservative untri this list as well.

Countri like England, Brazil, Wal and France have allowed same-sex marriag recently, which make a total of 17 untri where gay marriag are acceptable. However, there are some untri where gay marriage is allowed certa areas for example, 18 stat the US allow their cizens to marry the partner of their choice. Today some of the most succsful TV shows are hosted by people, who are gay, for example, Ellen DeGener is pretty open about her marriage to Portia, her wife.

So, if you are wonrg about which untri are the most tolerant and nta the largt amount of gay populatn, then you have e to the right place. India The largt mocratic untry the world is also at the seventh spot on our list of 10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the World.

INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV

For some this might e as a surprise as Cha is not known as a untry that supports or promot topics like gay, lbian or bisexual but sce is the biggt populatn on Earth also has the hight number of gay people. 10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the WorldCanadaChaFranceIndiaItalyList XFanceNetherlandsPhilippSlishowTaiwanUned KgdomUned StatShow ls. Through our own viss and those of the handful of LGBTQ+ tour operators who lead trips there, India is hospable and welg to all visors – cludg gay or lbian upl or groups.

We terviewed several gay tour operators cludg Bryan Herb om Zoom Vatns (listed as a rource below), Robert Sharp om Out Adventur, and Zach Mos om HE Travel, who have equently traveled to India, and they all report feelg credibly wele.

FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. In 2011, one report dited that approximately 96.5 percent of the populatn was heterosexual, while the remar of the populatn reported, intified as homosexual or asexual.

More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was.

There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home. Ahmedabad: The abrogatn of the ntroversial Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co related to unnatural sex 2018 has not drastilly transformed India’s rporate sector to an acmodative space for gay people.

‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

On the brighter si, -pth terviews of gay and lbian executiv and managers by the rearchers revealed that they n now nfi their lleagu who are study, ‘From Fear to Courage: Indian lbians’ and gays’ qut for clive ethil anizatns’, was thored by Ernto Noronha and Prela D’Cz om IIM-A and Nidhi S Bisht om MDI Gurgaon. It is one of the few studi focg on the work life of gay people India’s rporate terviews afford rare and poignant sights — one, for stance, is that most of the rponnts led dual liv, volvg the projectn of straight selv. The rponnts said they had to first asss their lleagu’ potential rpons by discreetly broachg topics such as LGBT rights or queer Noronha, who teach anizatnal behavur at IIM-A, said that the study was among the first primarily focg on gay people’s workplace experienc India.

GAY INDIA

” “The study also mak a se for clive HR polici, not only for LGs [lbians and gay men] but for all at large so that they feel secure, ” he Noronha said the study highlighted the fact that lbians faced more challeng, when they me out, pared to gay study showed that sce few pani have an clivy policy, only a mcule proportn of the rponnts had told their boss about their sexual orientatn. It is thought that a gay man will pounce on any heterosexual male he se- A gay man…would take the pany b…and some people would whistle at him. This was que expensive…so he qu four or five months- I am not immediately out to people whom I work wh… bee the perceptn of beg gay will negatively impact my prospects of promotn or performance appraisal or how I am perceived as a lleague- Bee my genr exprsn is feme, I uld pass off as …a straight girl.