Gay Indian stunt granted refugee stat Atralia

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• GAY DIAN STUNT
• GAY INDIAN STUNT GRANTED REFUGEE STAT ATRALIA
• GAY INDIAN STUNT GRANTED REFUGEE STAT ATRALIA

GAY DIAN STUNT

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. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.

Parmh, 39 | Head, Godrej India Culture Lab, and thor of Gay Bombay: Globalizatn Love and (Be)longg Contemporary IndiaThere are many g out stori my se.

GAY INDIAN STUNT GRANTED REFUGEE STAT ATRALIA

I cid to host the get-together at a gay bar lled The Abbey.

Most of my iends had no ia about me beg gay, or about this particular bar beg a gay one. ” They had had a bet earlier about whether I was gay or straight.

GAY INDIAN STUNT GRANTED REFUGEE STAT ATRALIA

His wife had said ‘gay’, and my iend had said, ‘straight but creative’. But when she did ll, I was lerally flung out on a iend’s bed wh about ten iends—all gay, all huner, all dissectg the fer pots of the Gossip gig we’d been at the night before. She lik to pretend I’ve never been gay, and gets angry when I gently try to remd her that ’s te.

I me out as gay. And I was lucky, bee most of the people my llege jt shgged at the news and moved gay isn’t a big al when you’re sign school.

That’s the reason I’ve never had too many gay iends, bee I was never ma to feel like an outsir amongst straight people. Beg gay is not somethg that I would actively tell people or hi om people. That was the time I heard the terms ’gay’ and ‘lbian’.

Bee people generally know about gays and lbians but they don’t know about transgenrs—and those who do thk that transgenr means hijras. I already know so many gay people. The Inter was new, and wh me unlimed accs to gay porn.

He didn’t give a sh as long as I was I was around 18, the year I thought I might not be gay but maybe bisexual, I had a girliend (sort of) and I remember her beg my dad’s favoure of all the girls I brought home.

Ltle did I know that this e-mail was jt gog to ph him back to the closet, which he had fally gathered the urage to unlock, if not open—I had no ia that he was gay too! That was when our folks flipped over the thought of two gay sons, when they were maybe g to terms wh havg one.

It would have also extend the opportuny to others to e out of their own closets as bigots, homophob and duplico DiFran said, “When I was four years old, they tried to tt my I.

When clil psychologist Lata Hemchand, PhD, began her private practice Bangalore, India, almost four s ago, she viewed her homosexual patients the way she was tght to at one of India’s top trag stutns—as sexual viants. Parents often phed their gay or lbian children to treatment, askg that they be ma straight, remembers Hemchand. For India, the change me wh a Supreme Court lg September 2018 that crimalized homosexualy.

) While the judg foced their arguments primarily on the importance of dividual tonomy, nondiscrimatn and privacy, they poted repeatedly to the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s 1973 cisn to remove homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs. Dpe the longtime ban, some ways acceptance of homosexual behavr is eply rooted Indian culture, says Ahuja, cg as exampl the posive pictns of same-sex activy the 2, 000-year-old Kama Sutra and the 1, 000-year-old erotic sculptur at the Khajuraho templ. “Homosexualy began to be owned upon when the Brish Raj banned homosexual relatns unr Sectn 377 1861, ” says Ahuja.

But while Indian society is willg to accept homosexualy certa groups—pecially among creative profsnals the world of fashn or film—homosexualy overall is highly stigmatized, she says.

Today, beg gay India n mean beg rejected by fay, beg ostracized by the muny and even facg vlence. Now a growg number of psychologists are followg Vohra’s lead, and LGBTQ groups are circulatg lists of gay-iendly therapists like her.

“Even when homosexualy is a crime, you n still be enuragg of clients who belong to that muny, ” says Vohra. Usg a sle she veloped to measure Indian attus toward homosexualy (Journal of Homosexualy, Vol. 14, 2017), Ahuja tted a three-part terventn: an tnal prentatn offerg facts about homosexualy and s longtime prence Indian culture; an exercise which participants image they are members of a persecuted mory; and a ssn based on the ntact hypothis which stunts teract wh a gay man and a lbian woman.

Ahuja and her lleagu found that the terventn creased empathy and improved attus toward homosexualy participants (Journal of Homosexualy, onle first publitn, 2018). “We really need more such foms to talk about homosexualy and to give the opportuny for homosexuals to share their experienc, ” says Ahuja, notg that Indians’ attus are typilly shaped by media pictns of homosexuals as buffoons.

MELBOURNE: A 25-year-old gay Indian stunt who fled to Atralia to pe a forced marriage arranged by his Mlim fay has been granted refugee stat.

The Immigratn Department July 2012 accepted that the asylum-seeker was homosexual but rejected the claim that the mistreatment amounted to persecutn.