The global landscape for LGBTQ+ rights, protections and acceptance varies tremendously by location, with some destinations attracting millions of visitors to their events like Madrid Gay Pride, Sao Paulo Gay Pride or San Francisco Gay Pride, while more than 70 other countries have laws that allow discrimination or persecution of LGBTQ+ people. Some nations started to ban gay marriages within their nation but there are many objections to it.The LGBTQ+ rights movement has made tremendous strides over the past few decades and much of the progress in visibility is thanks in part to gay pride parades and marches that have taken place in cities around the world. Even though state had imposed laws, yet there are many law-breakers who broke the laws and lived in a carefree way. Nevertheless, government has incorporating new sets of rules and regulations to overcome this issue because gay marriage can be described as legal institution that defines and creates social networks. The society might see these gay men bring about moral hazards because they are different from the society itself. Since they have chosen to be gay, they should talk to their families so that their families could accept the fact that they are gays as it is a freedom of preferences. The government or state should not interfere in their personal life. I think it’s a matter of freedom for gay to choose their identities. However, they are afraid to show their real identities to their families who might not accept the fact. According to the article, gay men were not threatened the laws set by their government. India strongly opposed homosexuals within the country and they have laws for this issue. This behaviour arises from the other social interactions. It shows how people create their identity and how they present themselves to the society. This theory includes how people define and shape reality during social interactions. Symbolic interactionism can be defined as “he belief that interactions are constructed based on the use of mutually understood symbols, objects and language” (Goffman, 1959, p. The theory of symbolic interactionism can be used when looking at a subject on homosexual. Gay men in India are very shy to reveal their identities because their families might not able to accept the fact. Same sex marriages in India, a country with conservative mindset but many are still in disguise in fear of being arrested. Waving placards with slogans such as “Gay and loving it”, many still wore paper masks, lest they were “outed” on television. Though he was not incognito on Sunday, many of his fellow paraders were. “My brother knows my mother doesn’t,” says Pankash, a 23-year-old year-old student who likes to be known as Tina when he goes on dates dressed as his glamorous alter ego.
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“I suppose then I will have to come out.”ĭespite a burgeoning gay scene in India’s big cities, many Indian homosexuals worry more about exposure to their families and colleagues than about the law. He might have added that he was also living under the shadow of his mother, who, he feared, would soon start introducing him to suitable girls. “I feel we’re living under the shadow of the Victorians,” shuddered one young man, as beside him a group of hijras in hot pink saris broke into Bollywood-style pelvic thrusts.
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Delhi’s High Court is currently weighing a petition against Section 377 brought by an umbrella group of Indian NGOs. They say the section, drawn up 150 years ago by the British, is today routinely used by the police to harass and blackmail homosexuals, even if few are arrested. Many of those who paraded under heavy monsoon clouds in Delhi said one of their main motives was to campaign for the repeal of that law, Section 377 of India’s penal code, which deems homosexuality an “unnatural sexual offence” alongside bestiality. Though hijras, once trusted courtiers of the Mughal emperors, have a well-established identity in India, gay men and women do not indeed the practice of homosexuality is illegal, punishable with ten years’ imprisonment. The parade was lent a uniquely Indian flavour by flamboyant cross-dressing hijras, known as eunuchs, although many modern hijras are gay men who feel alienated by mainstream society. Several hundred men and women, waving rainbow flags, danced, stamped and sang their way through the city centres of Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata (Calcutta) on June 29th-the first such national event in this conservative country. THERE were no half-naked dancers, pink floats, or sailor boys locked in clinches but India’s gay-pride parade was ground-breaking enough without them. Homosexuality in India Glad to be gay (but a bit shy about it)įrom The Economist print edition Where Victorian values and repressive laws still hold