LGBT - and India
By vanny
@vandana7 (100638)
India
February 2, 2016 3:46pm CST
There are Parliamentarians who want gays and lesbians to remain as criminals.
Yeah, these are guys who have had access to plenty of money, good education, best comforts and still have not managed to break free some silly shackles.
For a moment, let us not even consider the case of the gay or lesbian in this matter.
Let us consider the case of a girl who is married to the man who happens to be gay. For the sake of the society in India she would have to continue to act.
What sin did she commit to be told every other day that she is barren?
Or imply that she does not know how to please her husband?
Whom are you all punishing Mr. Politicians?
Or are you keen to have such things remain so that those wives of gay men turn to you all?
Disgusting that people should want to enter another person's bedroom when nobody's rights are being infringed.
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8 responses
@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
2 Feb 16
We've talked before about certain issues and I realise India is very different from the UK in terms of what is socially acceptable.
We have openly gay politicians here and it's not such a big deal anymore although I'm not saying by any means that we are a totally gay friendly country as that isn't the case...but we're more gay friendly than many other countries.
I believe we are also more gender equal here...certainly more than India.
Indian politicians will have to come around to these issues eventually as they aren't going to go away.
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
2 Feb 16
I don't think that there is any place that is completely "gay friendly". We are making progress, but we still have a long way to go, and we are still decades ahead of India as far as I understand it.
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
2 Feb 16
@Mike197602 Unfortunately, I do believe that it is true ... at least at the higher levels. I do know some openly gay politicians, but they are more in local government rather than on a national scale.
It is just barely acceptable to have dark skin and hold a major political office in this country.
I still do not think that a woman will be able to be President, even if there was a better candidate than Hilary, so a homosexual is pretty much out of the question. I wonder which will happen first ...
I still do not think that a woman will be able to be President, even if there was a better candidate than Hilary, so a homosexual is pretty much out of the question. I wonder which will happen first ... 3 people like this
@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
2 Feb 16
@purplealabaster In some areas of the US I doubt a politician could admit to being gay and keep their job...that's what I've heard but is it true?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
2 Feb 16
I also think that politics has not to enter in bedrooms. Being gay or lesbian is not a crime in my country, but many people protested when marriage between gays or lesbians has been allowed here, because it was against their beliefs of what a family should be. The world would be better if people were more tolerant.
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@vandana7 (100638)
• India
2 Feb 16
@purplealabaster ..that is not the reason they are opposing it. Some religious fanaticism.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
2 Feb 16
@vandana7 Many Catholics were also against the "marriage for all", because the Pope was against it
. He did a balancing act, as he does not reject gays and lesbians in the Catholic church, but he rejects the marriage between them, arguing of the suffering of children...
. He did a balancing act, as he does not reject gays and lesbians in the Catholic church, but he rejects the marriage between them, arguing of the suffering of children...3 people like this
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Feb 16
what yuo sa is vey true but I cannotundersatand why a straight girl would l\\ marry a gay man or vicr versa. I feel ev eryone sho uld nave rights to marry as they choose and lov.e It is best that gays do marr gays and l esbians do marry lesbians. m
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@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
2 Feb 16
Unfortunately, we have the same problems here, although obviously not to the same extent. I fully support and admire your determination to try to get people from India to see how they are not treating people fairly. I hope that more people take up this cause and succeed in changing things for women and other people who are discriminated against.
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@artemeis (4194)
• China
8 Feb 16
I don't see the point for the wives to act when she can walk out of the marriage and remarried again. Also, it is clear that your country is not drawing clear lines on this issues and compromising on the wrong grounds and reasons.
The walk is a long one here.
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
3 Feb 16
@vandana7 Pretty good, I thought. Mostly set in Mumbai where many people might be a bit more 'progressive' but several young men saying about how they'd told their parents and they'd been very well supported. I think the picture in a small village in Orissa might be rather different.
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