Beg Sikh, Gay and Growg up New York - Gaylaxy Magaze

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• SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
• 'I WAS ASHAMED TO E OUT AS A GAY SIKH - BUT I'VE BEEN SHOWERED WH LOVE BY MY MUNY'JASVIR SGH IS A VOUT SIKH AND MARRIED TO A MAN - HE WANTS TO ENURAGE OTHERS TO BE PROUD OF WHO THEY AREBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYNATHAN CLARKECOMMUNY REPORTER09:53, 24 FEB 2023UPDATED09:21, 27 FEB 2023BOOKMARKJASVIR SGH AND HIS PARTNER NICK GOT MARRIED LAST YEAR. (IMAGE: JASVIR SGH)LATT NEWS OM SIKH MUNI ACROSS THE UK OM LIFTYLE TO BREAKG NEWSMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 LATT NEWS OM SIKH MUNI ACROSS THE UK OM LIFTYLE TO BREAKG NEWSINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• GAY SIKH
• A GAY MAN’S STGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE THE SIKH MUNY
• PHOTO OF SIKH MAN'S 'FANTASTIC' RABOW TURBAN FOR GAY PRI GO VIRAL: 'AWOME MSAGE'
• BEG SIKH, GAY AND GROWG UP NEW YORK

SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”

Please shed some light on how to ask a gay guy out, there are many gay Sikhs around, our life is a hell! Unfortunately for you and our other LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) brothers and sisters, you are born to one of the most hetero-male domated culture ever. Amidst the Humve and ttosterone filled bhangra petns, ’s impossible to fd gay love (or any kd for that matter).

If this is the se for hetrosexuals, then one n jt image how difficult mt be to date as a homosexual an already extremely small muny. It is also a fah where, for a long time, no large-sle discsns around the topic of homosexualy have taken place wh the muny (for good or bad).

'I WAS ASHAMED TO E OUT AS A GAY SIKH - BUT I'VE BEEN SHOWERED WH LOVE BY MY MUNY'JASVIR SGH IS A VOUT SIKH AND MARRIED TO A MAN - HE WANTS TO ENURAGE OTHERS TO BE PROUD OF WHO THEY AREBIRMGHAMMAILBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYNATHAN CLARKECOMMUNY REPORTER09:53, 24 FEB 2023UPDATED09:21, 27 FEB 2023BOOKMARKJASVIR SGH AND HIS PARTNER NICK GOT MARRIED LAST YEAR. (IMAGE: JASVIR SGH)LATT NEWS OM SIKH MUNI ACROSS THE UK OM LIFTYLE TO BREAKG NEWSMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 LATT NEWS OM SIKH MUNI ACROSS THE UK OM LIFTYLE TO BREAKG NEWSINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

I was Sikh, and later I realized I was gay, and both of the were part of me, and I did not thk beg one meant givg up on the other. But as I started unrstandg my sexualy more, beme part of var onle queer groups and muni, and joed some of the gay datg webs, I started yearng to see gay men who looked like me – wh a turban and beard.

Instead of the clean-shaved look that most gay men seemed to have and prefer, my turban and facial hair (along wh the texts the datg s) sowed a doubt my md that no one would ever want to date me, g to a lot of body-image issu that took a while to go. But spe not beg relig myself, my experienc as a gay man were startg to get shaped bee of my relig inty. As a 22 year old, I lnched a LGBT e-magaze lled Gaylaxy  2010 to provi a platform for the muny to nnect wh each other.

I wanted to assure other young queer Sikhs that one uld be gay and Sikh, and live their life openly. ” Generatg a lot of discsn some Sikh foms onle, I felt empowered to eventually follow up wh an article challengg the homophobia shown by SGPC (the body regulatg Gudwaras India). “At the Delhi Queer Pri 2017, I amplified the msage around my tersectnal inty when along wh the rabow turban, I rried a poster by the group Sarbat that read 'Some Sikhs are gay.

GAY SIKH

For a fah which has always advoted equaly and stood up for the opprsed, but where s texts are silent on the issue of homosexualy, we need to open up nversatns wh the Sikh fah to safeguard s re and ensure that we do not let homophobia w. Shep Sgh is the founr and edor--chief of Gaylaxy Magaze, an e-magaze wily read India and South Asia. He ntributed the chapter on Sikhism and homosexualy the book I Am Dive So Are You about Karmic fahs and sexualy and has pleted a documentary on LGBT Sikhs, Sab Rab De Ban (We Are All God’s Children).

A GAY MAN’S STGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE THE SIKH MUNY

Giani Jogr Sgh Vedanti, the hight temporal thory to some Sikhs, recently nmned homosexualy while remdg visg Sikh-Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) of their relig duty to oppose same-sex marriage.

[1] In a report published March 2005, Vedanti said, "The basic duty of Sikh MPs Canada should be to support laws that stop this kd of practice [homosexualy], bee there are thoands of Sikhs livg Canada, to ensure that Sikhs do not fall prey to this practice. The supreme Sikh relig body, the Akal Takht, has issued an edict nmng gay marriage, and Vedanti's words were echoed by Manj Sgh Kalkatta, another highly rpected Sikh preacher who ss on the erng body of the Goln Temple, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commtee.

PHOTO OF SIKH MAN'S 'FANTASTIC' RABOW TURBAN FOR GAY PRI GO VIRAL: 'AWOME MSAGE'

It is seemgly silent on the subject of homosexualy; however, married life is enuraged time and time aga Gu Granth Sahib Ji. One of the vic is lt, and some Sikhs believe that homosexual thoughts and behavur are jt maniftatns of lt. However, Sikhs that are more acceptg of homosexualy claim that this is equally applible to heterosexuals.

The same Sikhs believe that Gu Nanak's emphasis on universal equaly and brotherhood is fundamentally support of the human rights of homosexuals. Views on homosexualy tend not to be a primary ncern Sikh teachgs, as the universal goal of a Sikh is to have no hate or animosy to any person, regardls of race, ste, lor, creed, genr, or sex.

Many Sikhs have terpreted this to mean that homosexualy, which nnot rult procreatn, is unnatural and agast God's will. Many Sikhs who have homosexual sir will try to overe what they believe to be lt by marryg a member of the oppose sex and havg children. Like liberals om other fahs and backgrounds, Sikhs who support homosexualy believe that 's not unnatural, but is normal for a mory of adults.

BEG SIKH, GAY AND GROWG UP NEW YORK

The Sikhs strs that homosexualy is not discsed nor specifilly banned any of the wrgs of the Gu, and that the fay liftyle the Gu enurag n be cultivated by two members of the same sex. However, no one has a license om the Gu to jtify their own personal habs, behavur or liftyle that is not advoted by the Sikh relign wh the label of Sikhi, whether straight or gay.

Sri Gu Granth Sahib Ji and other Sikh scriptur like Bhai Gurdaas Ji’s Bani (holy wrgs) do not enterta the possibily of a homosexual marriage or relatnships. In addn to this, there has been no promotn or even a reference to homosexual relatnships and marriag the history of Ten Gus perd or beyond till prent day.