When Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) killed a Gay Profsor #LGBTQ - Kractivism

Contents:

• ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• THE MYSTER SUICI OF AN OUTED GAY INDIAN PROFSOR
• ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• ALIGARH GAY PROFSOR FOUND AD, MAY HAVE KILLED SELF
• DEATH OF AMU GAY PROFSOR WRAPPED MYSTERY
• FIVE YEARS AFTER GAY AMU PROF'S ATH, LOVER BREAKS SILENCE ON AFFAIR
• GAY AMU PROFSOR FOUND AD, SUICI SPECTED
• WHEN ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY (AMU) KILLED A GAY PROFSOR #LGBTQIN PERSON PROFSOR S.R. SIRAS OUTSI AMU, FEBARY 2010. (PHOTOGRAPH BY JENR GUPTA) OUTLOOKWHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR
• ALIGARH UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• GAY PROFSOR
• LAST WORDS OF AMU PROFSOR WHO WAS DRIVEN TO DEATH FOR BEG GAY
• GAY BATE AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY
• TWO HELD AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH SE

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

Dr Shrivas Ramchandra Siras, rear and chairman of Morn Indian Languag at AMU, now says he won't challenge his spensn and would voluntarily 's cisn not to qutn his spensn has e as a relief to AMU thori, who are more than keen to bury the ``embarrassg episo'' as uld raise a ser issue of gay rights on the mp sce the profsor wasn't acced of any wrongdog or crimal actn. ''QnA: Although the HC has legalized homosexualy, is the Indian society ready to accept this cisn?

When a gay profsor at one of India's most prtig universi was found ad two months after vigilant barged to his hoe wh a vio mera and ught him a naked tryst wh a bicycle rickshaw driver, police nclud was suici.

He had been spend om his teachg duti for "immoral sexual activy" and publicly outed a society eply prejudiced agast gay people, and there was poison his activists and former lleagu of Shrivas Ramchandra Siras, a profsor of Indian lerature at Aligarh Mlim Universy the northern Indian state of Uttar Prash, are puzzled by a few odd tails of his ath—his cellphone was missg, his ATM rd was ed eher jt before or jt after his ath, and while the room where his body was found was locked om the si, the ont door of the hoe was bolted and padlocked on the outsi. What's more, he had jt been restated at the universy by virtue of a urt orr, and he had found iendship and support among those fightg for gay rights India.

THE MYSTER SUICI OF AN OUTED GAY INDIAN PROFSOR

Gay rights activists are hopg a film based on the story of closeted profsor Dr. Even if the official explanatn of suici is rrect, the more than five-year-old se has bee one of the most proment tts of India's official and unofficial tolerance of homosexualy recent years.

And while the Indian legal system failed Siras, his story may wd up dog more for gay rights than India's ually liberal urts. India's film dtry is generally as homophobic as s movi are mp, but director Hansal Mehta has ma Aligarh what the Brish Film Instute lled "probably the bt film yet on the Indian gay male experience.

That would be a bold move a untry where thugs vandalized theaters and beat up a cema manager 1998 to prott a film that picted a lbian a renewed public bate India on homosexualy, Mehta says, "I would like to believe that [Aligarh] is already havg an impact. 'Profsor Siras was outed and spend om his job Febary 2010, says thor and gay rights activist Saleem Kidwai, durg a "wonrful ltle terregnum" when homosexualy was legal India.

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

Known as Sectn 377, the law ma gay sex a crime punishable wh up to 10 years prison, and 2013 India's normally progrsive Supreme Court restated .

ALIGARH GAY PROFSOR FOUND AD, MAY HAVE KILLED SELF

Consensual gay sex that tak place private India is rarely prosecuted, but gay people are equently persecuted. Wh landlords liable to evict gay tenants and fai quick to disown gay relativ, blackmail is mon.

Cops routely mand brib or sexual favors om men ught cisg, and at several universi gay stunts face expulsn om dormori and even om Siras was outed, he was practilly visible. Like many closeted gay men India, he was married, but separated, wh divorce proceedgs unrway. Official Shashi Tharoor to legalize gay sex.

"We found your lleague naked, engaged homo-sex, " a voice says. " Otherwise speakg Hdi, he says "homo-sex" English, as a sgle word.

DEATH OF AMU GAY PROFSOR WRAPPED MYSTERY

""Siras did ht that [the mera crew] might have been workg on the beht of the admistratn, " says philosophy profsor Tariq Islam, who was stmental nvcg Siras to fight back and ntacted gay rights anizatns on his behalf.

FIVE YEARS AFTER GAY AMU PROF'S ATH, LOVER BREAKS SILENCE ON AFFAIR

In late 2013, the Supreme Court upheld Sectn 377 of India’s penal , reversg a 2009 Delhi High Court lg that the lonial-era law crimalizg gay sex was unnstutnal. "Acrdg to Edmond, the last person known to have spoken wh him, Siras was talkg optimistilly about beg a gay rights activist or movg to Ameri to teach Marathi—a language spoken wtern India. Gay stunts face discrimatn and harassment.

GAY AMU PROFSOR FOUND AD, SUICI SPECTED

Not long before Siras was outed, five stunts at a Christian llege Kerala were expelled for makg a film about homosexualy. 'Homosexualy Is a Disease'Progrs on gay rights India has been slow, but there has been some movement recently: Fance Mister An Jaley spoke out agast the Supreme Court's handlg of the anti-sodomy law, and December opposn member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor troduced an amendment to crimalize sexual terurse between nsentg adults, regardls of genr. Official, has vowed to retroduce the next, opn polls such as a 2014 survey by the Pew Rearch Center show that around two-thirds of Indians view homosexualy as immoral (the same percentage thks premaral sex is wrong).

As recently as 2009, almost as many believed homosexualy to be a disease, acrdg to one poll. While India's Natnal Crime Rerds Bure don't track homophobic crim, sexualy rights activist Gtam Bhan says there is a lot of anecdotal evince of faial vlence to enforce genr norms or force gays and lbians to arranged marriag, as well as school bullyg and reports of police beatgs and harassment. Siras's cisn not to qutn his spensn has e as a relief to AMU thori, who are more than keen to bury the "embarrassg episo" as uld raise a ser issue of gay rights on the mp sce the profsor wasn't acced of any wrongdog or crimal actn.

WHEN ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY (AMU) KILLED A GAY PROFSOR #LGBTQIN PERSON PROFSOR S.R. SIRAS OUTSI AMU, FEBARY 2010. (PHOTOGRAPH BY JENR GUPTA) OUTLOOKWHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR

LUCKNOW: Ls than two months after he was spend and hound out of his mp home on charg of havg nsensual homosexual act wh a rickshaw-puller, Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) teacher Shrivas Ramchandra Siras was found ad myster circumstanc at his rented sgle-room acmodatn Quarti police circle of Aligarh. Is Indian society ready to accept homosexualy? Apr 08, 2010 07:14 PM IST The ath of Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) profsor S R Siras, spend for allegedly havg gay sex and later restated, is still a mystery wh police today sayg uld be a se of suici or heart attack.

ALIGARH UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

The ath of Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) profsor S R Siras, spend for allegedly havg gay sex and later restated, is still a mystery wh police on Thursday sayg uld be a se of suici or heart attack. Siras, a Marathi teacher, was spend by AMU Vice Chancellor P K Abdul Aziz on charg of homosexualy after a stg operatn by a televisn channel showed him havg sex wh a rickshaw puller. ALIGARH: A gay affair, an acclaimed profsor, his suici and a lover who kept silent on an agonisg event for four long years.

I was not gay, but over time, we beme timate. “He (Siras) was spend bee he was havg paid sex mp, not bee of his gay orientatn.

GAY PROFSOR

"Why is homosexualy a crime India? Based on the te story of the spensn of Prof Siras om the Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) on the grounds that he was gay, a large part of Aligarh’s source material me om the former Indian Exprs journalist, Sebastian’s nversatns wh the Febary 2010, Sebastian was a young 21-year-old cub reporter Delhi verg Higher Edutn the cy (and addnally Aligarh), when he was pulled up by his edor for havg missed the news of Prof Siras’ spensn om AMU. The brief given to Sebastian was to file a story wh an terview of the profsor on how is to be gay AMU.

He was gay and he didn’t feel like he had to expla to anybody else.

Dr Sreenivas Siras, a Marathi profsor at Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) sacked for beg gay, was found ad on Wednday eveng. (Read & Watch: Back to my beloved AMU, says relieved Siras)Last year the Delhi High Court crimalised homosexualy. The ntroversy had re-igned the homosexualy bate on the universy's mp and both stunts and teachers stood divid.

LAST WORDS OF AMU PROFSOR WHO WAS DRIVEN TO DEATH FOR BEG GAY

(Read: Gay bate at Aligarh Mlim Universy)"I spent two s here. But I wonr if they have stopped lovg me bee I am gay, " Profsor Siras had said after the cint first ma headl. Most people would notice him but would not know April 2010, the suici of a gay profsor at AMU ma natnal headl.

Profsor Siras was gay. And as happens wh the LGBT muny our untry, social persecutn pounds Profsor Siras’ tragedy is that this happened to him the perd when homosexualy was crimalised.

Durg the urse of those terrible two months, he told me that he was satisfied that he managed to keep this (homosexual) part of his life a secret. Profsor S R Siras, chairman of Aligarh Universi’ Lguistics Department and Senr Profsor Marathi Language spend for beg gay after darg stg operatn. Details of the gay profsor, his male lover and the spensn are still sketchy and an official statement om Aligarh Universy is awaed.

GAY BATE AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY

AllNewsVios'Gay Profsor' - 21 News Rult(s)Edutn | Eded by Shihabuen Kunju S | Monday March 13, 2017. Aligarh, the movie based on the life of gay profsor of the AMU Universy is now facg an opposn om cy Mayor Shakuntala Bharti and stunt body, who says the movie is an attempt to "fame" the cy.

The actor plays a gay profsor the Hansal Mehta-directed film | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday Febary 18, 2016. The film is a brave attempt a society which is que homophobic.

Manoj Baayee plays the protagonist, who is gay and treated as an outsir. They both support gay rights and have monstrated recently their diverse fields.

TWO HELD AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH SE

Polician Shashi Tharoor tried to troduce a bill the wter ssn of Parliament to end the ban on gay sex India. Manoj Baayee will be seen playg the role of a gay profsor Aligarh News | NDTV Corrponnt | Sunday July 18, 2010.

After a ndlelight memorial was held Mumbai over the weekend, outraged amics, supporters, gays and ncerned cizens have started an onle signature mpaign mandg jtice the ath of Dr Srivas Ramchandra Siras, the gay profsor om the Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU). In a cur twist to the ntroversy surroundg the ath of a gay AMU profsor, his cellphone has gone missg even as a se of crimal trpass has been lodged agast six persons, cludg four senr AMU officials.

'Gay Profsor' - 14 Vio Rult(s)'Gay Profsor' - 21 News Rult(s)Edutn | Eded by Shihabuen Kunju S | Monday March 13, 2017. 'Gay Profsor' - 14 Vio Rult(s)Your search did not match any documentsA few suggtnsMake sure all words are spelled rrectlyTry different keywordsTry more general keywords. As the Supreme Court today hears a petn by activists whether the ban on gay sex India should be rensired and the movie Aligarh - based on the life of Aligarh Mlim Universy's gay profsor Ramchandra Siras - is slated to release this month, here's NDTV exclive terview wh the profsor 2010.