Hmmm... I was going to write an entry on Derrie-Air but I think I found a more controversial issue than stupid body-image-shattering news. First of all, belated Independence day wishes and hats off to Abhinav Bindra and Akhil Kumar. So, what is it? It is this Independence march of the Queer community in India. They seem to be fighting for their rights. Now, queer relationships are not unheard of in India but I feel like this is just getting too far. India's gay population has been existing for years and nobody had any problem with that. The gay population had been talked about, in the news and a very good population of India has heard about and seen them. But, people just don't seem to accept them. It is wrong for them to be looked down upon as if they were lesser than humans. OK, now I think I have to talk about another community that is discriminated, the hermaphrodites. I remember this incident when I was in the train on my way back from Secundrabad. We went to the National Youth Leadership conference/Retreat at Secundrabad. By the way "We" here means YST (unfortunately, the link is obsolete but does have basic info), the group I was involved with in Chennai. On our way back, when we were all chatting I took a break for a nature-call and there, by the entrance/exit doors, came a hermaphrodite and demanded money. I didn't know how to respond but just say I don't have any money. The person threatened to expose her ("her" because the person was dressed in a sari) privates if I didn't give her money. To save myself the embarrassment, I gave her Rs. 10. Later I was made fun of by all my friends for being a chicken instead of saying NO to her and keep moving to the bay where we were sitting.
Why did the person have to do that? Because she was not accepted in the society. She can't get a job, not move in the community like the rest of us do and be who she is. The same thing applies to the gay community too. They need to be treated like all other people but, that doesn't mean their behavior is right.
If the march in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkota were for their right to be treated equally, I agree they were correct. But to legalize gay relationships (it doesn't do much anyway), I don't agree with that. When not all marriages are even getting registered in India I am wondering what it changes for the gay community to have their relationships legalized. Will it give them the freedom to walk around hand-in-hand like couples? I think there is a long way and time for that to happen in India. But, my argument is a little more than this. I am not saying that homosexual relationships are right. To me, it is so very unnatural. It is morally not right. It is merely the perversion of an individual who has either been abused earlier in life or had some other intense bad experience. Homosexuality is not natural, it is immorality. Science today can propose an idea from research that it may be in the DNA albeit, it's just going to be a theory like the Big Bang which cannot be proved. Not even the theory of 'evolution' can prove homosexuality to be natural, because it is not a trait acquired for survival. Homosexual relationships should NOT be legalized but homosexual people do have to be treated like any other person. That is basic human responsibility and morality to treat fellow beings as themselves and all of us who insult or make fun of those who are not like us should be brought before law. But, sexual perversion is not natural like hermaphrodites. Hermaphrodites are born that way, homosexuals are not.
Though nothing has been proved about homosexuality being natural or unnatural, this is my view. Because sex is an instinct and it is natural for male and female species to have this instinct to reproduce, but, homosexual relationship doesn't even serve that purpose of reproduction and seems merely a sexual deviation. This thing is becoming a big issue in the west and I think such care-free culture and perversion is spreading across to conservative and traditional countries like India somehow, just like the advertising of use of contraception. Some NGOs' urge to reduce AIDS in India is very, very appreciable but, instead of trying to stop people from going to red light areas for extra-marital sex, these NGOs are asking them to use contraceptives and continue this immorality. I do not know much about the laws regarding prostitution in India but, I do know that is highly ambiguous, it is neither legal nor illegal. The sex workers should be given other job opportunities or quotas or whatever it is called to improve their quality of life instead of selling their body. Well, that opens a whole other can of worms. I will probably write about this in another entry. I mean, instead of giving quotas simply based on castes (rather than financial status) for education and job, interest should be diverted towards these issues of brothels. Again, this caste quotas thing is another issue for me. May be I'll have another entry on that too, but, for now this is what I think about queer in India.
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