If Eve Could be Steve

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

India being a country with diverse culture, customs, religions, beliefs, and faith stands forth with its largest form of democracy giving its citizens the fundamental right of Equality and of Opportunity; Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of Religion and guarantees cultural and educational rights by its very constitution. The equality clause (article 14 and 15) in our constitution debars from discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Article 21 of the constitution gives the right to life and Personal liberty which is the eminent basis of the decriminalization of the age old section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, that banned homosexuality since the 19th century. Section 377 of the IPC violated the fundamental Rights (article 14, 19 and 21) guaranteed under our constitution. It is not that early but on the day of 6th September 2018 was when the Supreme Court ruled and declared its historic judgement by striking down and finally putting an ...

PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH , 2021

It has been widely observed that LGBT Literature in India is scarce compared to its foreign counterpart. One of the major reasons for this is the archaic and deep rooted institutional 'othering' that is meted out to the individuals belonging to this community. This research paper deals with the literature of the few authors who have so eloquently written about LGBTQ stories and the ordeals they have to face to publish their works in a (still very) homophobic and transphobic India. This paper has been written with the sole intention of providing a one-stop information hub about the evolution of LGBTQ Literature in India.

The Asian societies have the popularity of conservatism and putting into place strict rules and taboos that guide their day-to-day activities. A deviation from the stipulated norms receives a negative perception and the victims face the wrath of the community. India is one of those regions that have deep cultural ties and conservative persons. On the same point, individuals who defer the commonly perceived way of life in India face a myriad of difficulties, starting with discrimination. One of the taboos in India is a deviation from sexual straightness. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons the difficulties in India, starting from the societal level, extending all the way to the institutional level such as in schools and workplaces. This study focuses on the discrimination and rights of the LGBT students in Indian universities, factors that contribute to these ill-treatments, and solutions to the problem.

New Voices in Psychosocial Studies, 2019

In February 2011, the Telugu Indian news station TV9 aired a sensationalistic expose entitled ‘Gay Culture Rampant in Hyderabad’. In an unexpected turn of events that seemed to catch the network by surprise, the segment generated widespread opposition and outrage, culminating in an injunction from the News Broadcasters’ Standards Authority requiring TV9 to issue an on-air apology and pay a 1 lakh fine. The event became a flashpoint in the fast-moving history of queer India. This article examines the fantasmatic universe of queer criminality that TV9 constructed, in order to better understand how the production and dissemination of homophobic fantasy within a local context relates to larger geopolitical forces.

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

The Indian Supreme Court in the Navtej Singh Johar vs Union of India judgement (6th September 2018), decriminalized homosexuality. However, the space cleared by the legal judgement cannot be immediately availed of by those affected by it because legally determined/defined space doesn’t necessarily become social space. This essay looks at the formation of this social space and the perception of homosexuality in civil society. It will examine the impediments of communication that homosexuals encounter in the heteronormative world, and the ensuing misunderstandings regarding homosexuality. It argues that a proper medium is necessary to provide communication in a social space that would then treat homosexuality as ‘normal’. I argue that Mahesh Dattani’s plays enable the imagination and the construction of such an accepting civil society.

This dissertation is a feminist critical discourse analysis of Indian English newspapers following the verdict of Navtej Singh Johar and others vs Union of India, which decriminalised private, consensual and adult homosexual sex from the ambit of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. It examines articles from The Times of India and The Hindu over a six-month period to show how Indian news organisations are discursively producing a Hindu nationalist, homocapitalist queerness in the post Johar media landscape. It draws on media theories of political economy, agenda setting and framing, and queer critiques of Indian media to analyse the contours of this production, and to examine its ramifications for an India that is moving into the second term of a neoliberal, Hindu nationalist government. In doing so, this works attempts to challenge the subsumption of meanings of Indian queerness into hegemonic power structures.

Dogo Rangsang Research Journal

This research paper will help you understand about the human sexuality and talks about the various types of gender identities currently evolving in the Indian society. The emergence of legal status and rights of the LGBTQIA community has been mainly derived from the precedence and doctrines followed in the highest courts of the United States and its consequences can be seen in alleviating the conditions of the community all over the world. The experience of having an exclusive or nearly exclusive erotic preference for people of the same sex in fantasies and, typically, through the realisation of sexual intimacy with people of the same sex, is referred to as "homosexuality." It can be thought of in terms of identity, behaviour, and desire. The emotional reaction to same-sex attraction is homosexual desire. When people who are the same sex interact sexually, it is considered homosexual behaviour. The assumption of a self-label known as "homosexual identity" signifi...

Human rights are equally applicable to all human beings on this planet irrespective of religion, sex, caste, race, place of birth etc. It is the duty of all human beings to protect the rights of each other. What nature gives us is natural which means natural within. Thus, part of the personality of a person has to be respected by society and not reviled. Non acceptance of homosexual partner by any societal norm or notion and punishment of it by law is destruction of individual identity. Right to choice of a sexual partner is covered under Article 21 of the Constitution of India which guarantees the right to life and personal liberty. This is an inappropriate construction of the privacy based claims of the LGBT population. Their rights are not "so-called" but are real rights founded on sound constitutional doctrines. Sexual *LLM, Modern Law College, Pune 1 How the love that exists between same-sex couples was described by Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde, in his poem Two Loves published in 1894 in Victorian England.

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This research paper analysis the homosexual marriages in the Indian context as an invisible conflict which is successfully kept under cover. It also attempts to describe and explain various aspects of Homosexuality including the evolution, the reasons, the societal attitude and reactions towards such relations. The author also draws insight from the countries where homosexual marriages are legalized and also highlights their outcome out of legalising Homosexual relations. At the end taking fair and strong arguments both in favour and in against the author concludes about the possibility of legalizing homosexual marriages in India based on empirical and theoretical facts and evidences. Homosexuality In India – The Invisible Conflict The institution of marriage in society is generally regarded as extending only to male-female relationships, although most marriage statutes use gender-neutral language. Where as, many examples of acceptance of homosexual marriages has only been recently ...

With the legal logjam on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, as it perceives sexual activities "against the order of nature" punishable by law and carries a sentence. There has been a queer buzz going on in India. Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, acclaimed writer Vikram Seth and other prominent Indians publicly demanded the repeal of the said Section. Surfacing of Gay pride marches on the streets of a couple of metropolitan cities in India has become a trend of the day. Participants of such marches are seen sporting pink triangles and walking under the long LGBT flags. The word 'queer', once hurled or whispered as an insult is now proudly claimed as a marker of transgression by people who once called themselves lesbians or gays. In this context, this paper attempts to explore whether repeated media reportage and coverage of such pride marches is an indication of a growing climate of 'tolerance' in the country. It seems we are an altogether more open, more tolerant, sexier society which is getting better all the time. Or maybe it is not. Or is it? In order to discuss these issues, some events of LGBT pride parades through their media coverage have been qualitatively studied, followed by an analysis of conceptual/theoretical frames on homosexuality (and sexuality in general) postulated by French philosopher Michel Foucault and Austria's psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. This study finds its relevance in understanding how media conceives a broader definition of acceptable sexual behaviour through their coverage of discourse on the politics of sex in globalised India.