Coming from a small town, I always wondered if there's any gay scene in India, and after moving to New Delhi I realized that there's a loud vibrant gay scene in the bigger cities in India. I observed that a big number of crowd has started to stop fighting the fact about their sexuality and are accepting it in a positive way. Unfortunately, I observed that with this open crowd in cities like New Delhi, it has seeped in the some hideous norms and customs.
I am writing this article after having a long, serious conversation with a Spanish friend who has been living in New Delhi since a couple of years. Our conversation was lead in a direction making me think deeply about the fact that how rudely a strata of Indian gay community is discriminated by the gay community itself.
The conversation begun with the gay party scene in Delhi, I got to know that there are parties every weekend and generally on Tuesdays too, the parties are very happening and good. The conversation then headed towards the serious subject of how the transgenders and cross-dressers are discriminated and discarded by the gay community itself.
It was upsetting to know that they are not allowed in most of the parties in the city and are humiliated badly. The newsletter on the social networking sites have clearly written "Drags and transgenders are not allowed".
This is because of the pressure that the gay community put on the organizers. There might be reasons behind this, but any kind of reason will not justify a conclusion like this. This striking fact tells us how unfair it is that when we come out on streets for the pride, we all talk about equality and freedom of choice but in real, things are contrary. The India gay community itself seems too homophobic.
Gay community in India clearly is divided into closeted and out-of-closet but there's another division, tabooed deeper - the discarded and the accepted gays.
Hope with time and more open minded people, the community which is already discriminated, by the straights and so called 'straight acting', will stop discriminating amongst themselves.
The conversation begun with the gay party scene in Delhi, I got to know that there are parties every weekend and generally on Tuesdays too, the parties are very happening and good. The conversation then headed towards the serious subject of how the transgenders and cross-dressers are discriminated and discarded by the gay community itself.This is because of the pressure that the gay community put on the organizers. There might be reasons behind this, but any kind of reason will not justify a conclusion like this. This striking fact tells us how unfair it is that when we come out on streets for the pride, we all talk about equality and freedom of choice but in real, things are contrary. The India gay community itself seems too homophobic.
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