Hduism do not nmn gay people | Anil Bhanot | The Guardian

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• INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA
• GAY PRI MONTH 2021: ARMY DAD SUPPORTG HIS GAY SON IS SETTG PARENTG GOALS!
• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF HDUISMJAM BANVALLE·FOLLOW6 M READ·OCT 19, 2017--LISTENSHAREA MEDIL TEXT OM 600BC SCRIB BOTTOMG AND ‘MEN WHO VOUR THE SEMEN OF OTHER MEN’KHAJORAHO SCENE OF THREE WOMEN AND ONE MANHDUISM DAT BACK OVER 3,500 YEARS AGO, BUT WH , SOME FAIRLY ASTOUNDG IAS ABOUT GENR AND SEXUALY (SUCH AS WOMEN PROCREATG BONELS CHILDREN TOGETHER, BUT MORE ON THAT LATER).AS THE THIRD LARGT RELIGN THE WORLD, ’S WILY PRACTISED SOUTHEAST ASIA AND IS ALSO REGARD AS THE WORLD’S OLST RELIGN.BUT BEE THERE IS NO CENTRAL HDU THORY, ATTUS TO LGBTI PEOPLE VARY GREATLY. HDU SACRED TEXTS DO NOT DISTGUISH BETWEEN HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL ACTS — RATHER PROCREATIVE SEXUAL ACTS (WH MARRIAGE) AND NON-PROCREATIVE SEXUAL ACTS SUCH AS ORAL SEX.AMARA DAS WILHELM IS THE PRINT OF THE GAY AND LBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATN (GALVA-108), THE FIRST LGBTI HDU RELIG ANIZATN.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘HDUISM TRADNALLY REGNIZ LGBTI PERSONS AS A NATURAL THIRD GENR — PEOPLE WH MIXED MALE AND FEMALE QUALI — AND THEIR PRENCE WAS NSIRED AN IMPORTANT PART OF ANY FTIVAL.’HE ADD: ‘THIS CTOMARY UNRSTANDG WAS SOMEWHAT LOST UNR ISLAMIC AND BRISH LE BUT N STILL BE SEEN TO A LARGE EXTENT.’IN FACT, THERE ARE EVEN SEVERAL HDU TEMPL WH RVGS THAT PICT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ENGAGG HOMOSEXUAL SEX.WILHEIM CREATED GALVA-108 ‘TO REMD HD OF THIS CLIVE HERAGE.’BLURRG THE L OF GENRWILHELM TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘LGBTI PERSONS WILL LIGHT THE CROSSDRSG PASTIM OF SUBALA MILANA.’IN ANCIENT HDU MYTHOLOGY, SUBALA, WHO IS MALE, DRS FEMALE ATTIRE. HE SWAPS CLOTH WH RADHARANI, A KMAID AND THE LOVER OF THE GOD KRISHNA. RADHARANI MEANWHILE DRS SUBALA’S MALE ATTIRE. THEIR LIKENS IS SO SIAR THAT THEY ULD NOT BE TOLD APART.WILHELM ADD: ‘IN VRNDAVANA, INDIA, TEMPL STILL DRS RADHARANI MALE ATTIRE ON THIS DAY AND IS ONE OF THE RARE OPPORTUNI TO VIEW HER LOT FEET AND RECEIVE SPECIAL BLSGS.’THERE IS ALSO THE STORY OF SHIKHANDI, FEATURED THE SACRED MAHāBHāRATA. THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR EPICS OF ANCIENT INDIA, WRTEN THE SANSKR LANGUAGE.SHIKHANDI WAS BORN A WOMAN (WH THE NAME SHIKHANDI) BUT WAS RAISED AS A MAN. HE WAS THEN ARRANGED TO MARRY A WOMAN.BUT WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HE WAS ACTUALLY A GIRL, SHE SULTED HIM AND HE FLED. HE THEN MET A YAKSHA (SPIR) WHO AGREED TO EXCHANGE HIS GENR.SHIKHANDI THEN RETURNED AS A MAN WH THE NAME ‘SHIKHANDI’ AND LED A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE WH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.THERE ARE ALSO MANY ANDROGYNO AND TERSEX THEM HDU MYTHOLOGY.GODS SOMETIM CHANGED SEX AND NON-DIVE BEGS UNRWENT SEX-CHANG THROUGH THE ACTNS OF THE GODS. THIS ULD’VE BEEN AS A RULT OF CURS OR BLSGS, OR AS THE NATURAL OUTE OF RERNATN.MORN DAY HIJRA PEOPLE STILL BLUR GENRHIJRA ARE STILL BLURRG GENR L INDIA TODAY. IF YOU WERE TO TRANSLATE THE WORD HIJRA TO ENGLISH, YOU MAY LL THEM TRANSGENR. BUT ACTUALLY, ’S A FAR MORE PLITED SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTY THAN JT THAT.WHILE THEY ARE SHUNNED SOME CIRCUMSTANC, THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT TO INDIAN CULTURAL LIFE. NO HDU WEDDG IS BLSED IF HIJRA DON’T ATTEND . AND CREASGLY THEY ARE GETTG PROTECTN AND ARE STARTG TO GET ACCS TO BETTER JOBS.HIJRAS ARE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED AS THIRD GENR BY SOME ERNMENTS SOUTHEAST ASIA. THEY N BE TRANSGENR, TERSEX OR NUCHS.IN 2014, INDIA’S HIGH COURT LED TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLARE THEMSELV TO BE THIRD GENR.TRANSGENR PEOPLE N NOW REGISTER OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AS THE THIRD GENR, WH ALL THE RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WH . HIJRA LAWS ALSO EXIST BANGLASH AND NEPAL. AND SOME UNTRI REGNIZE THEM BY OFFERG ‘GENR X’ PASSPORTS.HOMOSEXUALY HDUISMANCIENT HDU SOCIETI DID NOT NSIR HOMOSEXUALY A PERVERSN OR S. IN FACT, A MEDIL TEXT DATG BACK TO 600BC MENTNS TWO DIFFERENT TYP OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN. KUMBHIKA ARE ‘MEN WHO TAKE THE PASSIVE ROLE’ ANAL SEX; AND ASEKYA ARE ‘MEN WHO VOUR THE SEMEN OF OTHER MEN’.IT ALSO STAT MEN WHO BEHAVE LIKE WOMEN, OR WOMEN WHO BEHAVE LIKE MEN, ARE TERMED AT NCEPTN THE WOMB.AND STAT IF TWO WOMEN HAVE SEX AND ONE BE PREGNANT, THE CHILD WILL BE BORN WHOUT BON. THIS IS BEE THEY BELIEVED A FATHER PROVIS BON AND MOTHERS PROVI FLH AND BLOOD.WHEN ASKED ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY, SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR, FOUNR OF THE TERNATNAL ART OF LIVG MOVEMENT, SAID: ‘EVERY DIVIDUAL HAS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE THEM. SOMETIM ONE DOMAT, SOMETIM OTHER; IS ALL FLUID.’SIARLY, SRIVASA RAGHAVACHARIAR, HEAD PRIT OF THE SRIRANGAM TEMPLE, HAS A ROMANTIC TERPRETATN OF HOMOSEXUALY.INDIAN PHILOSOPHY TEACH THAT AFTER WE DIE WE ARE RE-BORN. OUR PURPOSE ON EARTH SHOULD BE TO AVOID THIS RERNATN, BY LIVG A PERFECT LIFE WE N PE TO ‘NIRVANA’ OR HEAVEN.SO RAGHAVACHARIAR BELIEVED SAME-SEX PARTNERS MT HAVE BEEN CROSS-SEX PARTNERS A FORMER LIFE — RNED BY RERNATN.HE SAID THE GENR MAY CHANGE, ‘BUT THE SOUL RETAS S ATTACHMENTS; HENCE LOVE IMPELS THEM TOWARD ONE ANOTHER.’‘THE SPIR IS NOT MALE OR FEMALE’SOME EXPERTS EVEN TERPRET HDUISM AS SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.IN 2002, HDU SCHOLAR RUTH VANA TERVIEWED A SHAIVA PRIT WHO PERFORMED A MARRIAGE CEREMONY FOR TWO WOMEN.THE PRIT SAID THAT HAVG STUDIED HDU SCRIPTUR, HE NCLUD: ‘MARRIAGE IS A UNN OF SPIRS. AND THE SPIR IS NOT MALE OR FEMALE.’HDU MYTHOLOGY IS ALSO RICH HOMOSEXUALY. ONE EXAMPLE IS THE GREAT KG BHAGIRATHA. HE IS FAMO INDIAN MYTH FOR BRGG THE UNTRY’S GREAT GANG RIVER TO EARTH OM THE HEAVENS. AND HE IS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN BORN OUT OF PULATN BETWEEN TWO QUEENS.THERE’S A SIAR STORY ABOUT KARTTIKEYA — THE HDU GOD OF WAR. HE WAS BORN WHEN LORD AGNI, THE GOD OF FIRE TOOK SEMEN OM ONE OF THE PRCIPAL I LORD SHIVA.BUT HOMOSEXUAL SEX IS NOT ENTIRELY EMBRACED. IN ALL ASPECTS OF HDU LIFE, CELIBACY IS IMPORTANT… UNLS FOR PROCREATN.WILHELM TOLD GSN: ‘CELIBACY IS A RATHER IMPORTANT PRCIPLE HDUISM, NOT JT FOR GAYS BUT FOR EVERYONE IF POSSIBLE.‘I HAVE BEEN CELIBATE MOST OF MY LIFE WH THE EXCEPTN OF A FEW YEARS OF EXPLORG MY SEXUALY.’DIWALI: THE FTIVAL OF LIGHT
• HDUISM DO NOT NMN GAY PEOPLE

INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA

28-year-old Anish me out as gay ten years ago. He’s sce felt disnnected om his fah and the wir Hdu muny, but now wants to fd out if he n celebrate beg both gay and Hdu.

28-year-old Anish me out as gay at universy ten years ago.

He wants to fd out if he n rencile his fah and his sexualy and celebrate beg both gay and Hdu.

GAY PRI MONTH 2021: ARMY DAD SUPPORTG HIS GAY SON IS SETTG PARENTG GOALS!

He also fac his greatt fear by revisg the school where he experienced homophobic bullyg as a teenager to speak to the stunts there today about tolerance and sexualy.

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.

THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF HDUISMJAM BANVALLE·FOLLOW6 M READ·OCT 19, 2017--LISTENSHAREA MEDIL TEXT OM 600BC SCRIB BOTTOMG AND ‘MEN WHO VOUR THE SEMEN OF OTHER MEN’KHAJORAHO SCENE OF THREE WOMEN AND ONE MANHDUISM DAT BACK OVER 3,500 YEARS AGO, BUT WH , SOME FAIRLY ASTOUNDG IAS ABOUT GENR AND SEXUALY (SUCH AS WOMEN PROCREATG BONELS CHILDREN TOGETHER, BUT MORE ON THAT LATER).AS THE THIRD LARGT RELIGN THE WORLD, ’S WILY PRACTISED SOUTHEAST ASIA AND IS ALSO REGARD AS THE WORLD’S OLST RELIGN.BUT BEE THERE IS NO CENTRAL HDU THORY, ATTUS TO LGBTI PEOPLE VARY GREATLY. HDU SACRED TEXTS DO NOT DISTGUISH BETWEEN HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL ACTS — RATHER PROCREATIVE SEXUAL ACTS (WH MARRIAGE) AND NON-PROCREATIVE SEXUAL ACTS SUCH AS ORAL SEX.AMARA DAS WILHELM IS THE PRINT OF THE GAY AND LBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATN (GALVA-108), THE FIRST LGBTI HDU RELIG ANIZATN.HE TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘HDUISM TRADNALLY REGNIZ LGBTI PERSONS AS A NATURAL THIRD GENR — PEOPLE WH MIXED MALE AND FEMALE QUALI — AND THEIR PRENCE WAS NSIRED AN IMPORTANT PART OF ANY FTIVAL.’HE ADD: ‘THIS CTOMARY UNRSTANDG WAS SOMEWHAT LOST UNR ISLAMIC AND BRISH LE BUT N STILL BE SEEN TO A LARGE EXTENT.’IN FACT, THERE ARE EVEN SEVERAL HDU TEMPL WH RVGS THAT PICT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ENGAGG HOMOSEXUAL SEX.WILHEIM CREATED GALVA-108 ‘TO REMD HD OF THIS CLIVE HERAGE.’BLURRG THE L OF GENRWILHELM TOLD GAY STAR NEWS: ‘LGBTI PERSONS WILL LIGHT THE CROSSDRSG PASTIM OF SUBALA MILANA.’IN ANCIENT HDU MYTHOLOGY, SUBALA, WHO IS MALE, DRS FEMALE ATTIRE. HE SWAPS CLOTH WH RADHARANI, A KMAID AND THE LOVER OF THE GOD KRISHNA. RADHARANI MEANWHILE DRS SUBALA’S MALE ATTIRE. THEIR LIKENS IS SO SIAR THAT THEY ULD NOT BE TOLD APART.WILHELM ADD: ‘IN VRNDAVANA, INDIA, TEMPL STILL DRS RADHARANI MALE ATTIRE ON THIS DAY AND IS ONE OF THE RARE OPPORTUNI TO VIEW HER LOT FEET AND RECEIVE SPECIAL BLSGS.’THERE IS ALSO THE STORY OF SHIKHANDI, FEATURED THE SACRED MAHāBHāRATA. THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR EPICS OF ANCIENT INDIA, WRTEN THE SANSKR LANGUAGE.SHIKHANDI WAS BORN A WOMAN (WH THE NAME SHIKHANDI) BUT WAS RAISED AS A MAN. HE WAS THEN ARRANGED TO MARRY A WOMAN.BUT WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HE WAS ACTUALLY A GIRL, SHE SULTED HIM AND HE FLED. HE THEN MET A YAKSHA (SPIR) WHO AGREED TO EXCHANGE HIS GENR.SHIKHANDI THEN RETURNED AS A MAN WH THE NAME ‘SHIKHANDI’ AND LED A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE WH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.THERE ARE ALSO MANY ANDROGYNO AND TERSEX THEM HDU MYTHOLOGY.GODS SOMETIM CHANGED SEX AND NON-DIVE BEGS UNRWENT SEX-CHANG THROUGH THE ACTNS OF THE GODS. THIS ULD’VE BEEN AS A RULT OF CURS OR BLSGS, OR AS THE NATURAL OUTE OF RERNATN.MORN DAY HIJRA PEOPLE STILL BLUR GENRHIJRA ARE STILL BLURRG GENR L INDIA TODAY. IF YOU WERE TO TRANSLATE THE WORD HIJRA TO ENGLISH, YOU MAY LL THEM TRANSGENR. BUT ACTUALLY, ’S A FAR MORE PLITED SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTY THAN JT THAT.WHILE THEY ARE SHUNNED SOME CIRCUMSTANC, THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT TO INDIAN CULTURAL LIFE. NO HDU WEDDG IS BLSED IF HIJRA DON’T ATTEND . AND CREASGLY THEY ARE GETTG PROTECTN AND ARE STARTG TO GET ACCS TO BETTER JOBS.HIJRAS ARE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED AS THIRD GENR BY SOME ERNMENTS SOUTHEAST ASIA. THEY N BE TRANSGENR, TERSEX OR NUCHS.IN 2014, INDIA’S HIGH COURT LED TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLARE THEMSELV TO BE THIRD GENR.TRANSGENR PEOPLE N NOW REGISTER OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AS THE THIRD GENR, WH ALL THE RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WH . HIJRA LAWS ALSO EXIST BANGLASH AND NEPAL. AND SOME UNTRI REGNIZE THEM BY OFFERG ‘GENR X’ PASSPORTS.HOMOSEXUALY HDUISMANCIENT HDU SOCIETI DID NOT NSIR HOMOSEXUALY A PERVERSN OR S. IN FACT, A MEDIL TEXT DATG BACK TO 600BC MENTNS TWO DIFFERENT TYP OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN. KUMBHIKA ARE ‘MEN WHO TAKE THE PASSIVE ROLE’ ANAL SEX; AND ASEKYA ARE ‘MEN WHO VOUR THE SEMEN OF OTHER MEN’.IT ALSO STAT MEN WHO BEHAVE LIKE WOMEN, OR WOMEN WHO BEHAVE LIKE MEN, ARE TERMED AT NCEPTN THE WOMB.AND STAT IF TWO WOMEN HAVE SEX AND ONE BE PREGNANT, THE CHILD WILL BE BORN WHOUT BON. THIS IS BEE THEY BELIEVED A FATHER PROVIS BON AND MOTHERS PROVI FLH AND BLOOD.WHEN ASKED ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY, SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR, FOUNR OF THE TERNATNAL ART OF LIVG MOVEMENT, SAID: ‘EVERY DIVIDUAL HAS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE THEM. SOMETIM ONE DOMAT, SOMETIM OTHER; IS ALL FLUID.’SIARLY, SRIVASA RAGHAVACHARIAR, HEAD PRIT OF THE SRIRANGAM TEMPLE, HAS A ROMANTIC TERPRETATN OF HOMOSEXUALY.INDIAN PHILOSOPHY TEACH THAT AFTER WE DIE WE ARE RE-BORN. OUR PURPOSE ON EARTH SHOULD BE TO AVOID THIS RERNATN, BY LIVG A PERFECT LIFE WE N PE TO ‘NIRVANA’ OR HEAVEN.SO RAGHAVACHARIAR BELIEVED SAME-SEX PARTNERS MT HAVE BEEN CROSS-SEX PARTNERS A FORMER LIFE — RNED BY RERNATN.HE SAID THE GENR MAY CHANGE, ‘BUT THE SOUL RETAS S ATTACHMENTS; HENCE LOVE IMPELS THEM TOWARD ONE ANOTHER.’‘THE SPIR IS NOT MALE OR FEMALE’SOME EXPERTS EVEN TERPRET HDUISM AS SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.IN 2002, HDU SCHOLAR RUTH VANA TERVIEWED A SHAIVA PRIT WHO PERFORMED A MARRIAGE CEREMONY FOR TWO WOMEN.THE PRIT SAID THAT HAVG STUDIED HDU SCRIPTUR, HE NCLUD: ‘MARRIAGE IS A UNN OF SPIRS. AND THE SPIR IS NOT MALE OR FEMALE.’HDU MYTHOLOGY IS ALSO RICH HOMOSEXUALY. ONE EXAMPLE IS THE GREAT KG BHAGIRATHA. HE IS FAMO INDIAN MYTH FOR BRGG THE UNTRY’S GREAT GANG RIVER TO EARTH OM THE HEAVENS. AND HE IS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN BORN OUT OF PULATN BETWEEN TWO QUEENS.THERE’S A SIAR STORY ABOUT KARTTIKEYA — THE HDU GOD OF WAR. HE WAS BORN WHEN LORD AGNI, THE GOD OF FIRE TOOK SEMEN OM ONE OF THE PRCIPAL I LORD SHIVA.BUT HOMOSEXUAL SEX IS NOT ENTIRELY EMBRACED. IN ALL ASPECTS OF HDU LIFE, CELIBACY IS IMPORTANT… UNLS FOR PROCREATN.WILHELM TOLD GSN: ‘CELIBACY IS A RATHER IMPORTANT PRCIPLE HDUISM, NOT JT FOR GAYS BUT FOR EVERYONE IF POSSIBLE.‘I HAVE BEEN CELIBATE MOST OF MY LIFE WH THE EXCEPTN OF A FEW YEARS OF EXPLORG MY SEXUALY.’DIWALI: THE FTIVAL OF LIGHT

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. The Kama SutraWant proof to show your homophobic uncle that same-sex unns have been regnized by fah lears for thoands of years? 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.

Image source, Sameer SamudraImage ptn, Sameer (L) and Am stggled to fd a Hdu prit willg to marry themExclud by tradnal marriage ceremoni, Indian-Amerin gay upl the US are fdg new and unique ways to solemnise their unns, reports Sava Patel. I was agonised when one of them quoted an exorbant amount jt bee I am gay! But that's easier said than done for gay upl - even the US where same-sex unns were legalised 2015.

HDUISM DO NOT NMN GAY PEOPLE

More than 300, 000 gay upl have wed the untry sce then.

Templ refg to host same-sex weddgs, prits hangg up on their phone lls or unwillg to tweak the ceremony to su them and, some s, not even showg up on the day of the weddg - the experienc have driven Indian-Amerin gay upl to fall back on iends and well-wishers to create unique ceremoni rooted their culture. Ashok Sanghavi is a Ja prit who works as a tax nsultant - his vios om 2019 of Vaibhav Ja and Parag Mehta's gay Ja weddg spired many gay upl worldwi.

Rellg a recent gay weddg where he officiated, he add "The elrly parents of the groom thanked me wh tears their ey 'for givg our son a place our culture'. San Francis, spe s history of acceptance, is woefully short of prits willg to marry gay upl.