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ANTI-GAY LG INDIA SPARKS FEARS OF HISTORIL REWD
Gay Indians say they feel the untry is still trapped s lonial past * aljazeera lgbt india *
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.
INDIA'S GAY SEX LG MET WH GLOBAL OUTRAGE
An age old law crimalisg homosexualy rais ncerns about gay rights the untry." data-reactroot=" * aljazeera lgbt india *
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. 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? 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.
The iative aims at promotg the rights of members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny India." data-reactroot=" * aljazeera lgbt india *
Activists wave flags and shout slogans as they attend a prott New Delhi agast the Supreme Court outlawg gay sex, Dec. As Medha, a 28-year-old bixsexual fashn stylist livg Mumbai, heard the news that the Indian Supreme Court had recrimalized homosexualy, all she uld do was thk back. Medha – who did not want her full name ed bee of the still-potent stigma that beg gay rri India – said that after all the progrs her untry had ma over the past few years, the urt’s cisn Wednday felt like a step back time.
There are now movi that have gay-iendly characters, and the general public was gag acceptance, ” she said. It is a qutn that has troubled activists, scholars, and other supporters of gay rights India over the last few days: Why, after years of creased openns about sexualy, did the untry seem to be reversg urse? LGBT Indians say the populatn has ma tremendo stris the past toward more outward acceptance of gay and genr-non-nformg cultur.