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- GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL
- ‘INDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUEER AF – WE EVEN HAVE A GAY TAJ MAHAL’
GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL
By Prabhash K Dutta, India Today Web Dk: Ne years after the Delhi High Court crimalised homosexual acts among nsentg adults by readg down Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC), the Supreme Court today began hearg the matter. Implemented 1860 by the Brish lonial lers, Sectn 377 puts homosexualy unr unnatural offenc providg for sentence up to life imprisonment. A bunch of petns challenged the wordgs Sectn 377, "whoever voluntarily has rnal terurse agast the orr of nature wh any man, woman or animal" sayg vlated the rights of a sectn of society reprented by lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs (LGBT).
The Delhi High Court on July 2, 2009 pronounced a judgment makg voluntary homosexual act between adults as legal. Homosexualy ancient India: 10 potsIn the templ of Khajuraho, there are imag of women erotilly embracg other women and men displayg their genals to each other.
Scholars have generally explaed this as an acknowledgement that people engaged homosexual acts. The famo law , Manmri provis for punishment to homosexual men and women.
‘INDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUEER AF – WE EVEN HAVE A GAY TAJ MAHAL’
In the se of homosexual mal, Manmri says that sexual unn between wh two men brgs loss of ste. The nth chapter of the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana -- posed around 4th century BC, talks about oral sexual acts (Auparistaka), homosexualy and also of siar activi among transgenrs (triya prakri).
The book, however, do not favour homosexualy of any kd. Arthashastra of Ktilya -- a treatise on polics -- also mentns homosexualy.
But the book mak a duty of the kg to punish those dulgg homosexualy and expects the ler to fight agast the "social evil". Ancient Indian texts, scriptns and patgs on temple walls, clearly, don't approve of homosexualy, but the repeated referenc do acknowledge s existence those days. Contrary to popular belief, mythology and historil texts show that Vedic System regnised Homosexual Unns.