Shep Sgh: “I Want To Assure Other Young Queer Sikhs That One Could Be Gay and Sikh”

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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
• HOW I LEARNED TO HAVE PRI BOTH MY SIKH AND GAY INTY
• 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”

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.

'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!

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).

GAY SIKH

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. ” 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).

A GAY MAN’S STGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE THE SIKH MUNY

“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. 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. 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).

From them I have received ath threats for beg gay, I have been acced on a TV statn of beg an fil and I have even had dividuals ll me up and threaten to expose me.

HOW I LEARNED TO HAVE PRI BOTH MY SIKH AND GAY INTY

"Jasvir says that the Sikh relign which he grew up wh his fay, was very foced on a central te of equaly, and says he has never felt his fah to be nflict wh his homosexualy. Though many Sikhs see thgs differently, Jasvir says he never saw any nflict the relign's teachgs and scripture between his fah and his sexual Gu Granth Sahib, the re Sikh relig text, do not refer to homosexualy at all, but do make mentn of hbands and wiv.

This has allowed Sikhs on different sis of the bate to pot to scripture as backg up their own posn on homosexualy and on same-sex unns. "Sadly I know gay Sikhs who have given up their fah, or who feel their only optn was to cut their hair, and to bee ls fahful, or jt foc on their ner fah rather than spend time at the gurdwara.

I'm not gog to waver om my fah but I'm also not gog to be ashamed of my sexualy, " Jasvir of Jasvir's reason for speakg out is also bee he says he had never had gay Sikh role mols, particularly upl and those who nsired themselv to be relig.

BEG SIKH, GAY AND GROWG UP NEW YORK

"When that weddg vio was leaked and malicly spread around social media, was the way one of my elrly relativ found out I was gay, " he says. 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.