For Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the Natnal Mm of the Amerin Indian, ved Native iends to tell how their tradnal culture saw s LGBTQ members. A Chirihua Apache iend replied, “Now, Dennis, this is a human qutn, not [jt] Native.” We agree. But we also appreciate hearg what Native Amerins have learned, renstcted, or been unable to renstct about this part of our shared history and experience.
Contents:
- ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
- WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- GAY DATG MOSW
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
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June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month the Uned Stat. Native natns are siar to other world populatns the mographic reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals.
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WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA
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For our pri observance this year, the mm asked our Native iends, “How did your tribe tradnally view dividuals who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr? My grandmother, the late Lucy Lewis, had gay and lbian iends.
When India’s supreme urt announced was legalisg gay sex, people hugged twos and thre on the lawns outsi the Delhi urthoe. A law agast “unnatural sex” enshred by the lonial Brish ernment (and fend by succsive Indian on) was unanimoly led to no longer prohib homosexual acts. The reverberatns of the cisn – on sheer numbers, perhaps the largt sgle act of gay liberatn ever – are still ripplg across a vast, diverse and nservative untry.
INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
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“They wrote, ‘Congratulatns to my homosexual iends’.
“The iology of marryg a woman and havg children here is eply rooted, ” says Shubhankar Mondal, a medil stunt and one of the few openly gay people at his llege the cy.
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A few days after the verdict last September, Patna threw s first gay party.
”The lgerg fear reflects the fact that Indian society do a better job of policg s gay members than law enforcement ever did.
Vlatg India’s ban on homosexual acts was punishable by up to 10 years prison. Its real impact, acrdg to reports by human rights groups, was to emboln police and others to extort and abe gay people, knowg most would be reluctant to seek help om a ernment that regard them as stigma still lgers. “In India, is a se of ethics, ” says Sanjay Paswan, a member of the Bihar state uncil and former Indian feral mister who opposed the cisn to lift the gay ban.
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
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“[Gay] people are sufferg om some psychologil weakns or problem or trma. “Now people have no guts to oppose [homosexualy] … But not out of nvictn.
”The bnt of the prejudice is borne by Patna’s poorer and ls ted LGBT rints, who have limed accs to the empowerg gay culture that has veloped around the world the past half-century and which tells them they should feel pri who they how they intify, Roshni and Satya reel off a list of the slurs that are hurled at them the street. Labels such as transgenr or gay mean ltle to eher one.
“They ed to harass [before the liftg of the gay ban] and nothg has changed, ” Roshni says.
GAY DATG MOSW
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But the end of India’s gay ban is spirg ty acts of urage unlikely plac, the accumulated effect of which may only be known years later. The Supreme Court's cisn to make gay sex legal India has been hailed as the realy for members of the LGBT muny ral India is different.
They believe will take a long time to change regrsive attus towards three gay people om ral India tell their Kumar, 28, northern state of Uttar PrashI am really happy wh the urt's cisn. I hope that the media's verage of the verdict will help people unrstand that homosexualy is normal.
He told me was disgtg to even thk about homosexualy.
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I knew I was gay when I turned 16. She now knows that I am gay but ntu to live wh me for the children's sake. Unlike big ci, there are no gay clubs here.
I know a few gay people but they all live fear of beg ostracised if they were to e out. People believe that a gay person don't have the right to be rpected or 's a difficult life. No matter how nice I am or how much I help people, once they fd out I am gay, they n om people sympathise wh but they still thk 's a disease that needs to treated.
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I keep thkg that somebody will walk up to me and slap me or do somethg nasty bee I am gay. It's suffotg to be a gay person ral India.