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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
• 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD
• GAY INDIA
• INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• IN INDIA, GAY, LBIAN AND TRANS PEOPLE N FACE WCHDOCTORS, EXORCISTS AND 'RRECTIVE RAPE'

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

LIMA, July 21 (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated. Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay.

FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years. Through our own viss and those of the handful of LGBTQ+ tour operators who lead trips there, India is hospable and welg to all visors – cludg gay or lbian upl or groups. We terviewed several gay tour operators cludg Bryan Herb om Zoom Vatns (listed as a rource below), Robert Sharp om Out Adventur, and Zach Mos om HE Travel, who have equently traveled to India, and they all report feelg credibly wele.

10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was. There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home. Published on June 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm by Lists Our list of 10 untri wh the Biggt Gay Populatn the World is likely to tch you by surprise as you’re gog to fd some of the most nservative untri this list as well.

Countri like England, Brazil, Wal and France have allowed same-sex marriag recently, which make a total of 17 untri where gay marriag are acceptable. However, there are some untri where gay marriage is allowed certa areas for example, 18 stat the US allow their cizens to marry the partner of their choice. Today some of the most succsful TV shows are hosted by people, who are gay, for example, Ellen DeGener is pretty open about her marriage to Portia, her wife.

So, if you are wonrg about which untri are the most tolerant and nta the largt amount of gay populatn, then you have e to the right place.

GAY INDIA

India The largt mocratic untry the world is also at the seventh spot on our list of 10 Countri wh the Biggt Gay Populatns the World. Gay marriag are legal the untry for years and gay populatn Netherland hardly ever has to face any racial remarks or ments. For some this might e as a surprise as Cha is not known as a untry that supports or promot topics like gay, lbian or bisexual but sce is the biggt populatn on Earth also has the hight number of gay people.

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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.

INDIA INC’S ‘CLOSET CEILG’: MOST GAY PEOPLE LEADG DUAL LIV

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). 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.

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). 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.

Epics like the Ramayana, Mahabharata and even templ of Khajuraho give enough peep to the ancient tim of India to tablish that homosexualy was practice. (File photo: Getty Imag)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. At a time when homosexualy was more taboo the untry than is today — and wh nsensual gay sex then crimalized as an “unnatural offense” — the photographer had found his subjects via the rmal works nstutg Delhi’s gay scene.

‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

Primarily shot outdoors around India’s pal, ptur gay men sat on bench or public plac popular among those lookg for sual sexual partners, their fac often out of shot or turned away om the mera. While studyg the US the mid-1970s he produced a now-celebrated seri of photos om New York’s Christopher Street that ptured the cy’s gay scene the years between the Stonewall Rts and onset of the AIDS epimic.

I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD

Homophobia was rife 1980s Bra, and the photographer said he faced “a lot of hostily” at art school for makg work relatg to his sexualy. By the 1990s, however, tert Gupta’s work was growg, as art ma by, and about, gay people of lor beme creasgly visible the Wt.

Although the untry’s LGBTQ muni still face signifint social stigma, gay sex was crimalized 2018 and the arrival of apps like Grdr have been transformative, Gupta said. Ahmedabad: The abrogatn of the ntroversial Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co related to unnatural sex 2018 has not drastilly transformed India’s rporate sector to an acmodative space for gay people.

On the brighter si, -pth terviews of gay and lbian executiv and managers by the rearchers revealed that they n now nfi their lleagu who are study, ‘From Fear to Courage: Indian lbians’ and gays’ qut for clive ethil anizatns’, was thored by Ernto Noronha and Prela D’Cz om IIM-A and Nidhi S Bisht om MDI Gurgaon. It is one of the few studi focg on the work life of gay people India’s rporate terviews afford rare and poignant sights — one, for stance, is that most of the rponnts led dual liv, volvg the projectn of straight selv. The rponnts said they had to first asss their lleagu’ potential rpons by discreetly broachg topics such as LGBT rights or queer Noronha, who teach anizatnal behavur at IIM-A, said that the study was among the first primarily focg on gay people’s workplace experienc India.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

” “The study also mak a se for clive HR polici, not only for LGs [lbians and gay men] but for all at large so that they feel secure, ” he Noronha said the study highlighted the fact that lbians faced more challeng, when they me out, pared to gay study showed that sce few pani have an clivy policy, only a mcule proportn of the rponnts had told their boss about their sexual orientatn. It is thought that a gay man will pounce on any heterosexual male he se- A gay man…would take the pany b…and some people would whistle at him. This was que expensive…so he qu four or five months- I am not immediately out to people whom I work wh… bee the perceptn of beg gay will negatively impact my prospects of promotn or performance appraisal or how I am perceived as a lleague- Bee my genr exprsn is feme, I uld pass off as …a straight girl.

They will keep phg you wh qutns such as when are you gog to get married- I thk one of my lleagu…had this nfn about my sexualy, and one day he msaged me askg, ‘Do you thk you are gay? A law agast “unnatural sex” enshred by the lonial Brish ernment (and fend by succsive Indian on) was unanimoly led to no longer prohib homosexual acts. The reverberatns of the cisn – on sheer numbers, perhaps the largt sgle act of gay liberatn ever – are still ripplg across a vast, diverse and nservative untry.

“The iology of marryg a woman and havg children here is eply rooted, ” says Shubhankar Mondal, a medil stunt and one of the few openly gay people at his llege the cy.

IN INDIA, GAY, LBIAN AND TRANS PEOPLE N FACE WCHDOCTORS, EXORCISTS AND 'RRECTIVE RAPE'

”The lgerg fear reflects the fact that Indian society do a better job of policg s gay members than law enforcement ever did. Its real impact, acrdg to reports by human rights groups, was to emboln police and others to extort and abe gay people, knowg most would be reluctant to seek help om a ernment that regard them as stigma still lgers. “In India, is a se of ethics, ” says Sanjay Paswan, a member of the Bihar state uncil and former Indian feral mister who opposed the cisn to lift the gay ban.

”The bnt of the prejudice is borne by Patna’s poorer and ls ted LGBT rints, who have limed accs to the empowerg gay culture that has veloped around the world the past half-century and which tells them they should feel pri who they how they intify, Roshni and Satya reel off a list of the slurs that are hurled at them the street.