Camararie and posive energy marked the annual Gay Pri rally last Sunday the cy
Contents:
- 10 THGS INDIA’S DONE RIGHT FOR ITS LGBTQ COMMUNY THIS YEAR #GAYPRIMONTH
- GAY PRI MONTH IS HERE
- INDIA’S GAY PRI
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- GAY PRI
10 THGS INDIA’S DONE RIGHT FOR ITS LGBTQ COMMUNY THIS YEAR #GAYPRIMONTH
* hindu gay pride *
And while the reproductive nnectn between man and woman has always been revered the fah, Hduism, unlike most Wtern fahs, historilly treats homosexualy as a natural behavr, one documented folk tale and relig text alike. Includ the rvgs are a number of pictns of gay sex, sometim y suatns where several women are volved terurse wh a sgle man, but there also are imag of men havg sex and engagg fellat wh one another. Mra and VanaThe sons of Adi om Vedic lerature are picted equently as ins for brotherly affectn and timate iendship between men, acrdg to the Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn.
Tell him to grab that py of the Kama Sutra he keeps a drser drawer and read Chapter 9, which addn to offerg stctn on fellat mak clear that this skill n also be ed acceptably homosexual teractns. There were activists who work wh the gay muny the cy, youngsters who participated as they believed the e and parents who wanted to walk along wh their children, irrpective of their sexual orientatn. One person who attracted a lot of attentn was Right Reverend Pramod Goni, the Bishop of Ecclia Epispal Synod who says that relign never flicts homogeney on people.
GAY PRI MONTH IS HERE
The Chennai Rabow Coaln is the rult of the ‘g together’ of var LGBT — lbian gay bisexual transgenr — groups unr one banner to unrtake the pri rally and allied activi. * hindu gay pride *
Insistg that love is equal, he charmed one and all by sayg, “Relign never discrimat amongst people on the basis of whether they are gay or straight.
INDIA’S GAY PRI
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The members are aimg for equal rights for transgenrs and for the gay muny to be able to marry and adopt; ’s the right time to move ahead, they believe. As one of the earlit or maybe the first self-proclaimed gay activists the south, was long overdue for the groups Chennai to show their strength and make their prence felt the so-lled ‘nservative’ cy of Chennai, when the other leadg metros had gone ahead and succsfully had their Pri ralli over the past few years. Chennai Rabow Coaln is the rult of the ‘g together’ of var LGBT (lbian gay bisexual transgenr) groups unr one banner to unrtake the pri rally and allied activi.
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn. * hindu gay pride *
The greatt achievement of the gay activist muny Chennai is the credible support om the State Government agenci as regards their efforts to empower the transgenr muny. It is an ocsn for members of the LGBTQ muny to mark progrs ma on legal and social onts on their same month, Uganda’s Print Yoweri Meveni signed to law the Anti-Homosexualy Act of 2023, which crimalis same-sex nduct, cludg a potential ath penalty for those nvicted of “aggravated homosexualy.
Although there had been earlier protts agast the discrimatn and harassment faced by the LGBTQ muny, the Stonewall rts marked a turng pot where lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people formed a uned ont agast police actn and bias. Other anisatns such as the Mattache Society (found 1950), Jan Society (found 1962) and Dghters of Bilis (found 1955) also supported the e, seekg polil and social regnn of the rights of homosexual people. Anti-homosexual polici the ary, as well as Joseph McCarthy’s Red Sre, gave rise to pro-LGBTQ groups durg World War 2 and the perd that followed.
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Dpe a history of vlence agast gay people by an ultra-orthodox Jewish man and threats issued by the Paltian Islamist group Hamas, some 10,000 gay rights activists marched peacefully through the cy, which hosts holy plac of worship of all three Abrahamic fahs * hindu gay pride *
In 1953, Print Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Orr 10450, unr which gay men and lbian women the feral ernment were vtigated and fired; thoands of ernment employe lost their jobs. A New York Cy Police Department officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man durg a nontatn Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march New York, Augt 31, 1970. The slogan “gay power” was proposed for the march, but the theme “gay pri” was eventually chosen; the ia was that while the movement had yet not received polil empowerment, s members felt pri their sexual inty.
An Israeli rerve solir wh a bow tie the rabow lors stands durg a prott rally after the Gay pri march was nceled Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, July 14, 2016, after Israel’s Supreme Court rtricted the event’s route due to ncerns of vlence. Around the 1980s, Pri events the UK foced on the AIDS crisis which ravaged the gay muny and also protted Sectn 28, unr which the Conservative ernment of the day banned the “promotn of homosexual liftyl” Month is not the only one set asi for celebratg members of the LGBTQ muny. It was held by the AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) outsi ITO Police headquarters Delhi to prott the arrt of men om Central Park Connght Place on the spicn of homosexualy.
Of NCT Delhi that treatg gay sex between nsentg adults as a crime was a gross vlatn of the fundamental right to privacy enshred the Indian Constutn. However, 2013, the Supreme Court overturned the Delhi High Court’s lg Surh Kumar Kohal vs Naz 2015, MP Shashi Tharoor troduced a private member’s bill the Lok Sabha seekg to crimalize homosexualy by amendg Sectn 377 of the IPC.
Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * hindu gay pride *
On September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court led that Sectn 377 was unnstutnal “ so far as crimalis nsensual sexual nduct between adults of the same sex”, th legalisg “nsensual same-sex acts between homosexuals, heterosexuals, lbians and other sexual mori. In India, multiple s have been filed before High Courts seekg the regnn of same-sex marriag unr the Hdu Marriage Act, the Special Marriage Act and the Foreign Marriage November 2022, two gay upl filed wr petns the Supreme Court seekg legal regnn of same-sex marriag, unr the Special Marriage Act, 1954. In this July 31, 2014 file photo, gay rights mpaigners act out electric shock treatment to prott outsi a urt when the first urt se Cha volvg so-lled nversn therapy is held Beijg, Cha.
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. * hindu gay pride *
A gay man central Cha has succsfully sued a mental hospal over forced nversn therapy on June 26, 2017, what activists are hailg as the first such victory the untry where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emergg form the g. TThe state of LBTQ+ rights globally LGBTQ+ rights wily vary across the globe, and although several untri have legalised same-sex relatnships, fewer natns have legalised same-sex the ILGA (the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn) World Database, nsensual same-sex sexual activy was not crimalised 129 untri, while 64 untri still crimalise homosexualy, whether by law or facto.
In Augt 2022, Sgapore Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the untry would repeal Sectn 377A of s penal , which crimalised gay sex, while December of the same year, a Barbados High Court crimalised homosexualy via an oral lg.
More recently, May 2023, the Sri Lankan Supreme Court gave a green light to a Bill seekg to crimalise homosexualy, sayg that was not “nsistent wh the Constutn. Pro-gay marriage activists pose durg a gatherg at Paris 4th district cy hall after French lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage, Tuday, April 23, 2013, Paris.