BBC Rad 4 - The Untold - I'm gay, Sikh and gettg married

Contents:

• I'M GAY, SIKH AND GETTG MARRIED
• IS GAY MARRIAGE ALLOWED SIKHISM?
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• GAY MARRIAGE

I'M GAY, SIKH AND GETTG MARRIED

He is also gay - a fact that he has kept mostly private until now. From them I have received ath threats for beg gay, I have been acced on a TV statn of beg an fil and I have even had dividuals ll me up and threaten to expose me.

IS GAY MARRIAGE ALLOWED SIKHISM?

He wanted to tell his story on his own terms, and also to send a msage to gay Sikhs facg difficulti. "Jasvir says that the Sikh relign which he grew up wh his fay, was very foced on a central te of equaly, and says he has never felt his fah to be nflict wh his homosexualy.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Though many Sikhs see thgs differently, Jasvir says he never saw any nflict the relign's teachgs and scripture between his fah and his sexual Gu Granth Sahib, the re Sikh relig text, do not refer to homosexualy at all, but do make mentn of hbands and wiv. This has allowed Sikhs on different sis of the bate to pot to scripture as backg up their own posn on homosexualy and on same-sex unns. "Sadly I know gay Sikhs who have given up their fah, or who feel their only optn was to cut their hair, and to bee ls fahful, or jt foc on their ner fah rather than spend time at the gurdwara.

GAY MARRIAGE

I'm not gog to waver om my fah but I'm also not gog to be ashamed of my sexualy, " Jasvir of Jasvir's reason for speakg out is also bee he says he had never had gay Sikh role mols, particularly upl and those who nsired themselv to be relig.

"When that weddg vio was leaked and malicly spread around social media, was the way one of my elrly relativ found out I was gay, " he says. The relig bodi of Sikhism do not teach that homosexualy is "unnatural and ungodly". The Sikh holy book, the Gu Granth Sahib, do not explicly mentn homosexualy.