Gay Indian man who was raped wants his story told, the vlence to end | The News Mute

Contents:

• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
• GAY INDIAN MAN WHO WAS RAPED WANTS HIS STORY TOLD, THE VLENCE TO END
• INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter.

“Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn. ” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march. ” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful.

I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD

“My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program.

In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety. Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.

That tersectn is as old as the morn fight for LGTBQ rights, and perhaps no moment illtrat that as well as the movement’s most famo turng pot: the 1969 Stonewall Rts, the uprisg sparked by a police raid at a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the tone to which Pri Month is pegged. As they are today, members of the LGBTQ muny were disproportnately targeted by police durg the 1950s and 1960s, “the most homophobic perd Amerin history, ” says historian Hugh Ryan, thor of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History. Donut shop that was a popular meetg place for transgenr and gay people, was the se of an uprisg agast the ntuo police harassment that the shop’s patrons endured.

GAY INDIAN MAN WHO WAS RAPED WANTS HIS STORY TOLD, THE VLENCE TO END

Trans women of lor played a key role the Augt 1966 Compton Cafeteria Rts San Francis, and a police raid on the Black Cat tavern Los Angel on New Years’ Day 1967 rulted anized public protts agast police harassment of gay, trans and genr non-nformg people. For historian Ryan, the Haven Rt 1970, which took place at the Haven gay bar Greenwich Village, was also a landmark event and monstrat that there was a nsistency to the ancy beyond the sgular moment of Stonewall.

INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM

Oral histori reuntg the nights of Stonewall suggt that the women the prison chanted “Gay Power! The fact that several members of the Black Panther Party, cludg Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur and Joan Bird, had also spent time the prison speaks to the shared nnectns a broar stggle, Ryan says, as lks emerged between the Black Panther Party, the Gay Liberatn Front, radil lbians and the femist and women’s movements. It was after she saw the prison how the opprsn of gay people was nnected to the opprsn of mori that Afeni Shakur went on to anize a meetg between the Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s penthoe apartment on the Upper East si 1970.

Ajay is probably one of those many men the untry, gay or otherwise, who face such harassment and gross jtice regularly. Ajay is also openly gay.

And then on July 14, he paid heavily for beg himself, for not beg ‘normal’, and mostly bee he did not hi properly, bee others uld regnize him as a gay man. ”In June a police officer found out Ajay was gay, tnted and then molted him. He was wearg a kurta, wh legggs: and that uld have been probably a clear is probably one of those many men the untry, gay and otherwise, who face such harassment and gross jtice regularly.