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Contents:

• EUNUCHS, GAYS AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN INDIA
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM
• INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
• DELHI GAY TRAVEL

EUNUCHS, GAYS AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN INDIA

In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered.

Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was. There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home.

To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”. He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

HOMOSEXUALITY IN INDIA. Gay sex India is an offense punishable by a prison term of up to 10 years. Court se challengg the laws banng homosexualy have been held up urts for a long time.

The “Bombay Dost” is India's first and only publitn for gays and lbians.

INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM

In June 2003 a gay para was held Calcutta. C., show harpists wh erect penis playg before dancers performg homosexual acts.

Although homosexuals existed even ancient India, they never attaed social approval any sectn of the Indian populatn. “Very ltle is known about the current practice of male or female homosexualy India. Homosexualy is slowly gag acceptance, part due to the efforts of one or two anized groups metro ci that are affiliated wh a uple of activist homosexual groups nnected to ternatnal bodi of gays.

A regular voice of one anizatn, and of s homosexual members, is published Bombay, tled Bombay Dost, or “Bombay Friend. ” Genr-nflicted persons are generally regard as homosexuals. About two fifths of them had a homosexual experience wh one or two persons, while over a fifth had such experienc wh more than ten persons.

INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG

In their homosexual acts, only 21 percent of them had ed ndoms. Ahmed (1992), his study of tck drivers, found that 15 percent of them admted prev homosexual experience.

(1992), om a study Madras, found that 3 percent of the homosexuals earned their livgs as dancers and/or sex workers. The gay sex laws India apply only to men. Gay-Themed Films India.

In the sprg of 2005, “My Brother Nikhil”, a film about a gay man’s relatnship wh his fay after ntactg AIDS, drew most dienc Bombay. As scribed by anthropologist Serena Nanda, hijras are distct om ordary male homosexuals (known as zenana, woman, or anmarad, un-man), who reta their inty as mal and ntue to live ordary society. They are traed by other nuchs and live way that is more stctured than the gay liftyle.

DELHI GAY TRAVEL

Characteristilly, acrdg the Walter Williams (1986, 258-259), hijra are bchy like Amerin gay drag-queens - heterosexual transvt are rarely or never bchy. Mothers like them bee they are believed to absorb any homosexual tennci their children might have.

is the mega cy of India, offerg the bt gay life the untry, and is also well known for Maharashtra mic, dance and ntankis (street theatre).

The Khajaraho templ are famo for their erotic sculptur that nta several pictns of ancient homosexual activy. While homosexualy has been crimalized, ’s still advisable to exercise utn wh same-sex public affectn.