Pre-colonial India embraced homosexuality

[Jackdaws]

Why do you think gay is an insult?? Your comments show that for all acceptance of diverse ways etc you don't really accept it admit it. I think it is a compliment if you really accept these acts

Freedom in diversity in Incredible Gay India I say




Exactly bro I am trying to congratulate them and they are getting excited

Do you think Pakistan should follow suit and give equal rights to the gays of Pakistan?

 

[lem34]

Do you think Pakistan should follow suit and give equal rights to the gays of Pakistan?

Why do you want to go off topic. Why are you obsessed with Pakistan. This is about comments the Indian govt has made to the SC about various acts.

Go Gay India

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Why do you want to go off topic. Why are you obsessed with Pakistan. This is about comments the Indian govt has made to the SC about various acts.

Go Gay India

Again quoted for the record.

 

[Hafizzz]

I'm happy that India is providing rights to all its people...even In GITA it is written that you have been judged by your KARMA. We are moving in right direction.

Official gay-bashing
Official gay-bashing

On Thursday, the UPA government took the same large step backward it had taken in 2009 while arguing its case on homosexuality in the Delhi high court: that the sexual act between men and between women is immoral and that it transmits diseases like AIDS.

While the government distinguished itself for its hostility toward same sex freedoms and rights, the conservative religious right posited a different kind of homophobia -- that being homosexual, lesbian, transgendered or transsexual is against Indian culture and against the natural order of human relationships. While the 2009 order of the Delhi high court decriminalised homosexuality, it still isn’t easy being gay almost anywhere in India. Homophobia has become a new kind of bigotry, espoused not just by the religious right but -- now -- even the government which, on Thursday, switched positions from displaying deep antipathy to taking no stand at all over a frought issue.

For a government, which otherwise professes liberalism on economics and a range of other fundamental rights, to take a retrograde position on homosexuality as immoral is entwined with the belief that it would destroy the so-called social and moral order.

The health ministry and, indeed, the health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s characterisation last year that homosexuality is “completely unnatural” was not just an uninformed comment, but an expression of official stigmatisation of and discrimination against a certain kind of sexual orientation that has much to do with individual choice. There is no conclusive scientific evidence to suggest that being gay has a determinitive genetic quirk or is a deviation from so-called normal sexual behaviour caused by some chromosomal twist.

Homosexuality may or may not be an immutable matter of biology, but the official resurrection of gay-bashing is just another example of the government’s poor record of how it has treated and continues to treat the country’s sexual minorities, including those who identify themselves as gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered. This country’s laws safeguard the rights of religious minorities and protect their rights.

For consenting adults, regardless of their gender, the right to like and love someone and express that desire for another person, even if that person is of the same gender, through sex is surely as vital to the right to life, liberty and freedom. There shouldn’t be trampling of the rights of those who exercise the choice to be ‘different.’

 

[Nalwa]

Why do you want to go off topic. Why are you obsessed with Pakistan. This is about comments the Indian govt has made to the SC about various acts.

Go Gay India

I think this relates to the whole of sub-continent. And some areas like your KP practice it quite openly. What do they call it? Bachabaazi?

 

[kawaraj]

'Gay India'? Excuse me?

So you have resorted to abuses after your veiled sarcasm failed to incite us?

you don't have to make Gay India a Scarlet Letter, don't be an embarrassment of your ancestors.

 

[lem34]

Again quoted for the record.

Mate record it all you want. I have been complementing the Indian govt for coming out. This is what secularism and diversity is about. Truth be told I think you just pay lip service to the idea but in reality you thing that these acts are not nice etc otherwise why would you guys get offended. Indian govt is reclaiming it's precolonial way of life??

 

[Kesang]

A person who is living with whites and talking a language which is COPIED
from white by Using a computer which is Invented by whites and calling us copycat of white.LOL.

 

[Jackdaws]

Why do you want to go off topic. Why are you obsessed with Pakistan. This is about comments the Indian govt has made to the SC about various acts.

Go Gay India

Am not off Topic. I see two flags in your profile - the UK - which gives rights to the gays and Pakistan which doesn't. So I am merely asking you which country's stance do you personally support?

 

[lem34]

you don't have to make Gay India a Scarlet Letter, don't be an embarrassment of your ancestors.

Exactly on the one side they want to claim that they are tolerant on these acts and on the other hand they are offended this does not make sense

You don't have to congratulate India, mate.

If the world started congratulating India for the contributions it has made to mankind from zero to chess to Sushruta to Aryabhatta to yoga to Gandhi, the world will tire itself to sleep.

So, you don't have to congratulate us.

Why are you not proud of this??

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

you don't have to make Gay India a Scarlet Letter, don't be an embarrassment of your ancestors.

It's 'embarassment to ancestors.'

Next time, try making a personal attack that would make sense in English.

Ciao.

 

[lem34]

we should also include this thing in our incredible India campaign...you know 62 million tourists come to India every year. We will get the huge boost.

Absolutely New Dehli could become the gay capital of the world. Now there's a thought and they say the pink dollar will come into play. Because these gays tend to have no children they have more money to spend it would be very good for Incredible Indian gay economy. Some of you will certainly get a boost

 

[POPS]

There is no such thing as guy's in nature ...god has made only two ...male & female...there is no guy or whatever you might call it..all o r & every thing in nature is born by the union of male & female there is no place for guy ...they are a desease & an unnatural mutation of mind & body it should be cured-period guy is unnatural & unholy & against the very principal's of nature & god , bieng said that there were these unnatural creatures in history aswell even in anciant india it has henous crime punishable by death so was in mideval ages ...Thanks

 

[lem34]

There's a difference between copying and assimilating.

And what has this to do with the price of tea in China mate

I havent come across any literary references in sources of that period. Ancient India, yes. Characters like Shikhandi were somewhat like projections into the feminine side of men and homosexuality to an extent. But then this is same for many early European cultures like the Greeks and the Romans. Greeks had traditions like Pederasty.

I am sure the Indian govt must have good reasons and sources for making these claims to the Incredible Indian Supreme Court.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

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