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| Sadanand Menon: Straightening the queer pitch | 10-JUL-09 |
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| During a childhood spread across six Indian cities and distinguished by sexually repressed schooling in the first couple of decades of the new Republic, there were ample instances of same-sex intimacies, bonding and a concomitant homophobia that one has encountered. Outside of the family, I don’t remember any social occasion in cities as diverse as Bilaspur, Pune, Delhi, Bombay, Bhopal, Thrissur and Chennai where adolescent or teenage groups comprised mixed genders. Sports or classroom or entertainment, the gender segregation was an unspoken law. From early adolescence, middle-class boys and girls were locked in a suffocating ambience of fear, surreptitiousness and the kind of sleazy voyeurism that accompanies suppressed libidos. A large percentage of boys from this background went through same-sex encounters though, I must say, few of them grew up to be of ‘gay’ orientation. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: The death of a law | 05-JUL-09 |
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| Section 377, which banned gay relations and was recently declared unconstitutional by the Delhi High Court, also used to be invoked to protect minors against sexual abuse. |
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| Lalu slams ruling legalising gay sex | 04-JUL-09 |
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| RJD chief Lalu Prasad today denounced Delhi High court's ruling decriminalising gay sex and said the Centre should appeal against the judgement in the Supreme Court. |
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| Delhi HC legalises consensual gay sex | 02-JUL-09 |
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| In a pathbreaking judgement, the Delhi High Court today legalised gay sex among consenting adults holding that the law, making it a criminal offence, violates fundamental rights. |
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