‘There are few gay people India’: stigma lgers spe legal victory | Human rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'I N MAKE YOU STRAIGHT THREE MONTHS': INSI INDIA'S GAY NVERSN DTRY
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS PARENTS WANTED HIM TO HAVE 'NVERSN BRA SURGERY'

'I N MAKE YOU STRAIGHT THREE MONTHS': INSI INDIA'S GAY NVERSN DTRY

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. In September 2018, homosexualy was ma legal India once aga after was crimalized 2013 and prevly crimalized 2009.

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

One aspect of lol life that often surpris gay visors to India is the open affectn that Indian men display wh other men.

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. However, is a socially nservative untry and the suatn wh LGBT rights India has been changg que rapidly, wh progrs and setbacks happeng every few years; so ’s unrstandable that gay travellers might wonr whether ’s the bt statn for them to choose.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS PARENTS WANTED HIM TO HAVE 'NVERSN BRA SURGERY'

In a landmark judgement on 6 September 2018, India’s Supreme Court led to crimalize gay sex, somethg LGBT activists had been battlg for for 20 years. This is excellent news for gay travellers, although they should be aware that might take a b longer for attus to tch up. Until September 2018 those ught engagg homosexual sex uld be punished by up to 10 years prison unr Sectn 377 of the penal , a haner om the Brish Empire Victorian tim.

Although was not often ed to arrt, the law was regularly ed to timidate and reprs the gay muny and LGBT rights India were mimal.