Old ctom, new upl: Gay Indians are havg arranged marriag | The World om PRX

Contents:

• ARRANGED GAY MARRIAGE BURE: HELPG HOMOSEXUALS FD LOVE AND MARRIAGE
• OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
• GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

ARRANGED GAY MARRIAGE BURE: HELPG HOMOSEXUALS FD LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Stuck between a physil world whose soc-polil atmosphere still do not pletely accept homosexual love and datg apps remblg a digal mirror hoe of bicep and abdomen shots (lookg at you, Grdr), where do you go to fd a more meangful and ser relatnship? No paper n fe your marriage, “ she Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has a team of 26 employe — all homosexuals above 30 — who physilly filter like-md applints through a nfintial form that ndidat fill out while signg up. Happily ever after Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has a team of 26 employe who filter like-md applints; (below) Urvi ShahTurns out, fdg love is not cheap: Sgg up to the app sts ₹15, 000 for Indians and ₹30, 000 for foreigners.

“Matrimonial” ads — personal ads seekg bris and grooms — have been mon Indian newspapers for s, and the Inter age apps and webs have proliferated around the, an Indian-Amerin is brgg the nvenient matchmakg tools to gay men and women around the world — even if India won’t regnize their marriag yet. “We knew there is a huge unrground gay and lbian muny India, and we thought why not spread some light out there, help people who feel like they n never be helped? India still upholds a lonial-era law that crimaliz all sexual terurse “agast the orr of nature, ” and gay sex therefore remas a crime.

OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG

He says the language his mother’s ad “was a joke on those steist ads, was to say that gay people have the same kd of preferenc and [flaws]” that straight people men and women urban India n often live whout persecutn if their fai are supportive, but may still face a lack of acknowledgement om iends and fay. US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019. Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl.

On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support. A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship.

A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs. The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year.

GAY MARRIAGE

In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011. In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc. Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people. 2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally. Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father.

Contrary to the pro gay marriage argument that some different-sex upl nnot have children or don’t want them, even those s there is still the potential to produce children.

A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture.

Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships. LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights. The lears of the Gay Liberatn Front New York said July 1969, “We expose the stutn of marriage as one of the most sid and basic staers of the system.

GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights.