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Contents:
- THE GAY CHILD NEEDS MORE LOVE: LEILA SETH ON VIKRAM SETH
- VIKRAM SETH ON SECTN 377 AND GAY RIGHTS INDIA
- VIKRAM SETH’S POEM ON GAY LOVE: ‘THROUGH LOVE’S GREAT POWER’
- WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
- ON HIS B’DAY: CELEBRATG VIKRAM SETH, A SUABLE CHAMPN OF LOVE“NOT BEG ABLE TO LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE IS TO HAVE YOUR LIFE WRENCHED AWAY,” SAID VIKRAM SETH ON SECTN 377.URMI BHATTACHERYYAUPDATED: 20 JUN 2020, 8:40 AM ISTBOOKS4 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
- AUTHOR VIKRAM SETH SLAMS BJP FOR S "AFENG SILENCE" ON GAY SEX VERDICT
THE GAY CHILD NEEDS MORE LOVE: LEILA SETH ON VIKRAM SETH
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VIKRAM SETH ON SECTN 377 AND GAY RIGHTS INDIA
Read this inic India Today ver story by Vikram Seth on gay rights, Sectn 377 and homosexualy. To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away, says Vikram Seth on gay rights and sectn 377. * vikram seth gay *
SR: Leila Seth, you wrote you had a hard time g to terms wh his beg gay. Indian supreme urt to le on lonial-era penal that bans gay sex, after 2013 judgment reversed years of gradual liberalisatn.
Image source, urty: dia todayVikram Seth is an angry celebrated novelist, who is wrg a sequel to his epic btseller A Suable Boy, is censed wh the recent cisn of India's top urt to uphold a law which crimalis gay sex - a lg seen as a major blow to gay much so that the ually lm and dapper wrer has posed - unshaved, dishevelled and lookg distctly angry - on the ver of India Today magaze holdg a plastic chalkboard speakg 'Not A Crimal' to promote his movg say the magaze on gay rights.
VIKRAM SETH’S POEM ON GAY LOVE: ‘THROUGH LOVE’S GREAT POWER’
Celebrated Indian thor Vikram Seth is censed wh the recent cisn of India's top urt to uphold a law which crimalis gay sex. * vikram seth gay *
I am appalled by the Supreme Court judgement [crimalisg gay sex]. And a judgement which tak away the liberti of at least 50 ln lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people India is sndalo, s humane - and if you wish, you n remove the e at the end of that word.
WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
While the Supreme Court may have crimalised homosexualy, there are still some Indians who are gay and proud and leadg the e. Here’s who they are! * vikram seth gay *
There are [gay] people who live liv of quiet speratn India's towns and villag. There are several proment India bsmen [who are gay] - who would be wonrful role mols.
What do take to be openly homosexual and fight for your rights?
In a untry where a heterosexual uple exprsg their love public is owned upon, beg a member of the LGBTQ muny is hard, pecially when the Supreme Court has crimalised homosexualy and margalised the members of the muny. Here are 7 Indians who are gay and proud!
ON HIS B’DAY: CELEBRATG VIKRAM SETH, A SUABLE CHAMPN OF LOVE“NOT BEG ABLE TO LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE IS TO HAVE YOUR LIFE WRENCHED AWAY,” SAID VIKRAM SETH ON SECTN 377.URMI BHATTACHERYYAUPDATED: 20 JUN 2020, 8:40 AM ISTBOOKS4 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
Karan Johar has been cricised for not settg an example for gays India. * vikram seth gay *
Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil is the first openly gay prce the world. His life has been a nstant stggle to e to terms wh his sexualy; what wh his fay openly disowng him after the news of him beg gay beme public knowledge.
He also appeared on the Oprah Wey Show 2007; one out of three to be featured the show ‘Gay Around The World’. The director of My Brother… Nikhil, the first mastream Bollywood movie to discs AIDS and same-sex relatnships, Onir is one of the few openly gay directors the Indian film dtry has. He’s also the son of Leila Seth, the first woman Chief Jtice Of a High Court India, who is openly supportive of her son’s orientatn and is a strong supporter of the gay rights movement India.
One of the few openly gay men of Indian orig, the Padma Shri recipient wrote a heartfelt poem ‘Through Love’s Great Power’ on crimalisatn of same-sex relatnships a recent Supreme Court verdict India. One of the most outspoken activists for homosexualy and the LGBTQ muny, Harish is a well known personaly the muny. Indian-orig Leo Varadkar beme the first openly gay Irish ernment mister and is the first mister of Indian herage durg the 2015 same sex referendum.
AUTHOR VIKRAM SETH SLAMS BJP FOR S "AFENG SILENCE" ON GAY SEX VERDICT
He also went on to bee Ireland’s first gay prime mister. Image source, AFPImage ptn, Karan Johar is one of Bollywood's most fluential directorsBollywood director and talk show host Karan Johar's tobgraphy has kicked off a loud bate on beg gay India, wr Sudha G Tilak. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me, " Johar says the tle of his memoir, An Unsuable Boy, is a play on A Suable Boy, the novel by award-wng Indian thor Vikram has publicly spoken up agast a dranian Indian law that crimalis homosexualy.
However, Johar's memoir, -thored wh journalist Poonam Saxena, do not do Bollywood's buddg filmmakers, activists and Twterati have e down on him sayg he has only trivialised beg gay his films. Image source, APImage ptn, It has never been easy to be openly gay IndiaIn rponse to the cricism Johar wr, "The reason I don't say out aloud is simply that I don't want to be alg wh the FIRs [police plats]. 'Cowardly'In eply nservative India, homosexualy is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relatnships as illegimate.