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Gay Indians say they feel the untry is still trapped s lonial past

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ANTI-GAY LG INDIA SPARKS FEARS OF HISTORIL REWD

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In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. 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. To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”. He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now.

INDIA'S GAY SEX LG MET WH GLOBAL OUTRAGE

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The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight. Upset that the “BJP mak support regrsive thgs sometim, ” she told Al Jazeera that such advertisements are pani’ efforts to get their hands on the “huge” pot of so-lled “Pk money”, the purchasg power of the gay muny.

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOKSupreme Court orrs re-examatn of lonial-era law that crimalis homosexuals and other sexual ’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny is celebratg after the untry’s Supreme Court cid to ntue batg the legaly of a law that effectively crimalis homosexuals and other sexual mori. While the text of the law do not explicly mentn homosexualy, has monly been ed as a weapon agast sexual mori India, as a way to threaten and subjugate.

And uldn’t certa sexual acts, whether performed by homosexuals or heterosexuals, be seen as a crime unr sectn 377?

The iative aims at promotg the rights of members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny India." data-reactroot=" * aljazeera lgbt india *

India’s LGBT muny has e a long way, even though this remas a eply nservative society where beg openly gay or transgenr n be tantamount to social suici, even ath. Activists wave flags and shout slogans as they attend a prott New Delhi agast the Supreme Court outlawg gay sex, Dec.

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