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Contents:
- DEBALA MAJUMR’S ‘GAY INDIA MATRIMONY’: ASKG THE RIGHT QUTNS ABOUT MARRIAGE
- OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG
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- A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
- FOUR UPL ARE PETNG INDIA'S SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
DEBALA MAJUMR’S ‘GAY INDIA MATRIMONY’: ASKG THE RIGHT QUTNS ABOUT MARRIAGE
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Read more: Column: Homophobia Is Not an Asian Value It’s for this reason that some activists believe India might not be ready for same-sex marriage—at least until genr and sexual orientatn discrimatn are outlawed.
“There are host of other battl to be fought and won, ” says Shep Sgh, an activist and founr of Gaylaxy, a LGBTQ magaze.
“The society is not gog to sh to embrace gay marriage but that’s not what we are necsarily lookg for, ” says Srabh Kirpal, a lawyer who helped challenged the law crimalizg same-sex relatns. Debala Majumr’s documentary Gay India Matrimony siarly asks, “Why marriage?
OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG
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As per the filmmaker Debala, the reason mt be sexualy or homosexualy, as the movie discs social regnn of homosexualy. I first saw Gay India Matrimony as a part of my Women’s Studi urse. The Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison, and is now hearg arguments a se to legalize same-sex marriage.
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India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday. * gay indian matrimony *
They had even taken him to a Hdu fah healer who promised to rid the boy of his homosexualy — by any means possible.
A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
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"I told the uncle that if he was so nvced the fah healer, then to ask the mystic to turn him gay, too, then heterosexual aga. Through floods of tears, he me out to her as gay. " 18 upl have petned the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage Dai's reactn to her son tellg her he was gay was so remarkable that her phone number quickly circulated among members of Mumbai's LGBTQ+ muny.
Some of India's biggt silver-screen stars have played queer rol, cludg Rajkummar Rao, who played a gay police officer the 2022 film Badhaai Do, and Sonam Kapoor, who played a lbian 2019's Ek Ladki Dekha Toh Aisa Laga.
FOUR UPL ARE PETNG INDIA'S SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
In 2020, a Pew Rearch Center study reported that 37% of rponnts India said that "homosexualy should be accepted by society, " up om 15% 2014.
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