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“We are humans and are born like everyone else, but have feelings contrary to what is acceptable to the society. I am a guy and I love a guy, which means that people hate me and consider me to be different and weaker than others,” says Mayank, a front runner at the gay parade held in Delhi. On 29th June, 2008, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore played hosts to India’s first gay pride parades that drew a huge number of people. Holding placards with slogans like, ‘As good as you’, ‘Hindu-Muslim, Sikh-Isai, hetro-homo bhai bhai,’ the gathering marched peacefully through the streets, and was successful in making the Indian gays, bisexuals and transgenders surface and express their individuality.
Commemorating the Stonewall riots of 1969, which occurred in New York and kick-started the modern gay rights movement, homosexuals around the world came out on the roads holding high their rainbow-coloured flags. Like every year, parades were held in several countries and like India, Bulgaria and Czech Republic too held these parades for the first time ever. Though unlike India, those who assembled at Sofia and Brno were given a rather hostile reception. In Bulgaria; stones and gas-bombs were thrown at people attending the parade, while in Brno, right-wing extremists attacked the people with tear gas even before the march began! “I feel sorry to hear of such incidents where people do not respect people and cannot give heed to others’ feelings. I feel sorry for people who cannot accept us. At times we feel that we do not wish to be a part of this heartless society,” reacts Sachin, who had also participated at the parade.
“Hum honge kamyab ek din...” was the song on the lips of the people at the parade, and it showed the high spirits and firm belief of the activists that they would get their rights. All they want is that they should be recognised as a part of the society and people should not hurt their sentiments by mocking at them.
People in several countries have accepted gays as a part of their society and have given them the rights and respect due to any individual in the society. The Indian society is having problems in accepting homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders, yet there are people who consider them to be a part of the society, and Himanshu, who works with an NGO that is fighting for gay rights, happens to be one. “I don’t think that anyone should have a problem with homosexuals, they are normal human beings. When the ancient Greeks did not differentiate between people based on their sexual orientation, then why should we fix ourselves to certain rules, which we have made for our own benefit?”
In the current scenario if someone dares to think beyond the set rules then he or she is not welcome to be a part of the community anymore. If a person’s son or daughter turns out to be gay then sadly many go ahead and disown them, throw them out of the house, or worse force them to mask their true selves and marry people of the opposite sex, thus ruining lives of not one but of two people!
Most gays abide by the norms of the society, silently hoping that some day they would be able to make their lives better, live the way they want to live, and be the person they want to be, and not what others want them to be.
Rohit Arora
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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Gay pride surfaces on the streets of India and around the world...
“We are humans and are born like everyone else, but have feelings contrary to what is acceptable to the society. I am a guy and I love a guy, which means that people hate me and consider me to be different and weaker than others,” says Mayank, a front runner at the gay parade held in Delhi. On 29th June, 2008, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore played hosts to India’s first gay pride parades that drew a huge number of people. Holding placards with slogans like, ‘As good as you’, ‘Hindu-Muslim, Sikh-Isai, hetro-homo bhai bhai,’ the gathering marched peacefully through the streets, and was successful in making the Indian gays, bisexuals and transgenders surface and express their individuality.Commemorating the Stonewall riots of 1969, which occurred in New York and kick-started the modern gay rights movement, homosexuals around the world came out on the roads holding high their rainbow-coloured flags. Like every year, parades were held in several countries and like India, Bulgaria and Czech Republic too held these parades for the first time ever. Though unlike India, those who assembled at Sofia and Brno were given a rather hostile reception. In Bulgaria; stones and gas-bombs were thrown at people attending the parade, while in Brno, right-wing extremists attacked the people with tear gas even before the march began! “I feel sorry to hear of such incidents where people do not respect people and cannot give heed to others’ feelings. I feel sorry for people who cannot accept us. At times we feel that we do not wish to be a part of this heartless society,” reacts Sachin, who had also participated at the parade.
“Hum honge kamyab ek din...” was the song on the lips of the people at the parade, and it showed the high spirits and firm belief of the activists that they would get their rights. All they want is that they should be recognised as a part of the society and people should not hurt their sentiments by mocking at them.
People in several countries have accepted gays as a part of their society and have given them the rights and respect due to any individual in the society. The Indian society is having problems in accepting homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders, yet there are people who consider them to be a part of the society, and Himanshu, who works with an NGO that is fighting for gay rights, happens to be one. “I don’t think that anyone should have a problem with homosexuals, they are normal human beings. When the ancient Greeks did not differentiate between people based on their sexual orientation, then why should we fix ourselves to certain rules, which we have made for our own benefit?”
In the current scenario if someone dares to think beyond the set rules then he or she is not welcome to be a part of the community anymore. If a person’s son or daughter turns out to be gay then sadly many go ahead and disown them, throw them out of the house, or worse force them to mask their true selves and marry people of the opposite sex, thus ruining lives of not one but of two people!
Most gays abide by the norms of the society, silently hoping that some day they would be able to make their lives better, live the way they want to live, and be the person they want to be, and not what others want them to be.
Rohit Arora
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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