Gay Srilanka

Contents:

• GAY SRILANKA
• GAY SRI LANKA
• MEN ONLY GAY HOTEL - GOMEZ PLACE
• SRI LANKAN GAY FRIENDS
• FUNNY BOY, A GAY SRI LANKAN COMG-OF-AGE FILM, ARRIV ON NETFLIX

GAY SRILANKA

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Durg and after the nflict the untry has offered most nvenience to lbigay cizens thanks to the activism of a urageo few. Beg tradnally Buddhist there is ltle fear of overt homophobic vlence yet archaic lonialist anti-gay laws still apply.

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GAY SRI LANKA

Compared to the wretch on hooks, I thought gays mt have easy here. In actualy, the ease or distrs of lbigay people Sri Lanka is very much a functn of their class.

(1) Je and Hans: Privileged Gays. They live a life qualatively different than most other gays Sri Lanka bee their European birth and attus shield them.

Wh a mischievo se Je told that homosexualy pervas every level of Sri Lankan life. He feels he is the only gay man his dty hometown of three thoand.

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His life is proscribed by the law, which outlaws homosexualy Sri Lanka, and proscribed by his fay’s expectatn to obediently follow tradn–take a wife and produce children. His shadow-box life is pound by a ightened lack of gay iends. He has no ntact wh gay anizatns.

(He shuns the ma gay anizatn Colombo bee he claims they are too “nellie”. Jay’s nundm is typil of virtually every gay and lbian person this untry formerly known as Ceylon. Dpe the fact that both India and Sri Lanka men hold hands or walk arm arm and affectnately touch each other–as women do wh women–any overt sign of homosexual behavr is sternly nmned.

Such homo-eros exprs self whout label or analysis; is simply an exprsn of re and tst although not whout some measure of fear. The gentle and surrated affectns emerge spe a stnch but not vlent homophobia the culture. When I suggted that he move to the pol Colombo to live and make ntact wh other gay people, he efully untered, “this is not Cha where so many people are.

SRI LANKAN GAY FRIENDS

So fearful is Jay of beg exposed, he would only pronounce the letter ‘G’ when talkg to me about gays.

As Jay and I end our talk, I felt some sadns but also some anger that he was not stronger and rilient enough to avoid beg a victim to his own homophobia. The possibily of any slight happs as a gay person seemed far too remote for him at this time. Sri Lanka is one of the world’s smallt untri but is home to one of the bt known gay activists, Rosanna Flamer-Calra.

It’s a non prof anizatn seekg human and polil rights for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Qutng (LGBTIQ) muny of Sri Lanka. See Gay Sri Lanka News & Reports for more tailed rmatn about the disaster and EQUAL GROUND’s volvement.

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In 2005, to observe the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, EQUAL GROUND lnched s first Human Rights Publitn entled ‘Human, Right? There is a booklet lled ‘The Yogyakarta Prcipl’ (about human and LGBT rights translated to Shala and Ta); also a booklet tled ‘Stgglg Agast Homophobic Vlence and Hate Crim’ (a report on the documentatn and rearch nducted by EQUAL GROUND om April 2010-June 2011 on vlence agast lbian and bi women the ral areas). Sri Lanka is not about to bee another New Zealand or South Ai wh nstutnal protectns for gays any time soon.

Like other Asian tradns is steeped relig and cultural proscriptns agast homosexualy.

Meanwhile the bety of the land ntu unabated and fearful gay nativ live the shadows. Affluent gay tourists may e to admire (or sce) the native beti but often leave wh ltle unrstandg of the plex tth about the gentle folks.