Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
Contents:
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- INDIA TO REVIEW LG ON LAW BANNG GAY SEX
- LGBT INDIANS DARE TO HOPE AS SUPREME COURT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW
- A NEW CHANCE FOR GAY RIGHTS INDIA
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn. * gay rights india 2016 *
At one place we have purely and strictly relig patg and sculptors like at Konark or at Jagganath Puri templ and at another place we have monuments like Khajuraho which is famo world over for s erotic arts and sculptors; this also clus sculptors wh homosexual activi. But our morn society somehow has bee ls tolerant towards anythg which is not regular or mon acrdg to their llective perceptn; whether we study society’s behavr towards relig mori such as Islam or Christiany or s behavr towards sexual mori such as gays, lbians or bisexuals. “You’re not Mumbai here; you are MumGay, ” he says, parodyg the tle of a short Indian gay film, “BomGay, ” which generated some buzz at the time of s release 1996.
Later the eveng, Bobby explas that India homosexualy is characterized, as often is Asia, by the classil try: crimalizatn, social disapproval, and the police’s nonenforcement of the law. He adds: “For a long time, the ernment would not crimalize homosexualy for the sake of ‘ntament, ’ but didn’t want to thorize for fear of makg a public issue.
”The ia of “ntament” — an Amerin diplomatic term referrg to the limatn of the Communist ntagn — is que a relative notn a untry whose Natnal AIDS Control Organizatn rmally timat has at least 70 ln India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy yet thgs evolve.
INDIA TO REVIEW LG ON LAW BANNG GAY SEX
The fight for gay rights India has been turbulent. In December 2013, a surprise judgment, India recrimalized homosexualy. Yet on Febary 2, a three-judge bench of India’s Supreme Court cid to reopen the bate on the anti-sodomy statute * gay rights india 2016 *
“This article [Sectn 377] was very rarely ed India, but was a sword of Damocl hangg over our heads, and ntributed to the nonregnn of homosexuals India, ” explas Rajeev, a gay activist om the Naz Foundatn Tst, an anizatn that fought for the crimalizatn of homosexualy and was supported by many Bollywood wrers and actors as well as by Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize wner enomics, and by the famo Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the only royal prce to be openly gay.
LGBT INDIANS DARE TO HOPE AS SUPREME COURT L ON ANTI-GAY LAW
When I met him 2015 his prtig New Delhi office, he nfirmed that he would “file a new bill on behalf of the Left [the Congrs Party] to reverse the cisn of the Court and fally crimalize homosexualy India once and for all.
” This great secular lady, like many of my terlocutors New Delhi, criciz the lg party of the Right that is currently power — Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Indian People’s Party — for havg renewed ti wh an “archaic and anachronistic” Hdu natnalism that she unhatgly characteriz as sexist, homophobic, and antifemist. Beg a gay-iendly figure, this Bollywood producer neverthels believ that India needs to evolve on the gay India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy taboo.
Several activists weled the disvery their blogs, even wonrg whether the Gandhi in uld serve their e by beg a mol of gay or whout a gay in, today India is movg forward. “There are now Gay Pri celebratns some major ci, ” Rajeev ntu; “there are ‘pk nights’ nightclubs, a Queer Ink gay bookstore here Mumbai, and Bollywood stars who sometim perform gay characters.
A NEW CHANCE FOR GAY RIGHTS INDIA
Organizatns fendg gay rights, such as the Naz Foundatn, are even thorized by the ernment, which isn’t possible Cha, Vietnam, or the root of the velopments, you first fd mographics. ”Frédéric Martel, a rearcher at Scienc-Po Paris and ZHdK Zurich, is the host and producer of the French rad show Soft Power, and foreign affairs lumnist at He is the thor of ne books, cludg “Global Gay, ” om which this article is excerpted.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Printial victory, 2016 was a turbulent year for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and transgenr rights took more promence than ever the global media spotlight after several high-profile legal battl, and celebry and cultural LGBTQ people worldwi still face discrimatn many aspects of life such as employment, tn and health re, and are subjected to wispread vlence, advot say.