Out Of the Closet!

So the Delhi High Court has given its judgment on Section 377.. yeah an old news. We saw celebrations and joy when SC refused to stay the ruling. The LGBT community can take a sigh of relief…And I just mean a brief small ‘sigh’. Coz with the judgement follows a series of never ending arguments against it. They wanted to be ‘out-of-closet’…Well guys, you are now in the limelight! The thing is…there isn’t anything good about it. Going by the reactions from our religious leaders and the moral police and the ‘conservative’ society (whose only job I guess is to poke their noses in everyone’s business!) , it just seems like a beginning of a long struggle for non-discriminative attitude from the Indian Society.
I have a friend.. he is gay. Only I know of it. (I was not supposed to.. I just bumped into the truth! Pun intended J ) The thing is.. He is not even comfortable in sharing this with his friends.. He thinks though they might not have a problem with it, but if this leaks out and his family comes to know of it, he wouldn’t be able to face them!
Which brings me to the point of discussion: the mental stress due to the Stigma, prejudice… these people must be living in. And honestly, My heart goes out to them. They are damned if they are ‘out-of-the-closet’ and damned ‘if-they-are-in-it’! No wonder, since ages, people did not reveal their sexual inclinations for the fear of society and peers rejection and disdain. Now, in times of Dostana (which by the way did not do any good for LGBT: my opinion again. All the gays were just caricatures..which is so not true.) and Stand up comedies, this is no more an ‘in-the-closet’ issue but all its used for is a few hearty laughs! Which just shows that our society still looks down on these things and acknowledges this only if a demeaning jokes comes out of it.
What our leaders and ‘society’ (whatever constitutes that??) need to know is..it is NORMAL. It might take an effort to drill it in their heads though, but I guess if you put the facts across, their grounds of holding it as a ‘mental disorder’ will become shaky enough to collapse. I will tell you the things I get to hear whenever this topic is up for discussion:
It’s a modern thing. The youth needs something odd to do to get noticed!
I say: PREPOSTEROUS! Modern..did you say??? Well.. The first recorded homosexual couple in history is commonly regarded as Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, an Egyptian male couple, who lived around the 2400 BCE. There is a painting showing them in a nose-kissing position, the most intimate pose in Egyptian art. There are many more examples..refer to Wikipedia J The truth is, same-sex love has been referred to since the earliest recorded history.. Digest it!
2. The most common: Its not Normal! Its just one of the twisted outcomes of over functioning human brain!
I say: Just read a bit guys..and when you do: Please register the facts in you head! Not everything is concocted by the ‘twisted’ minds.. Homosexual behavior has been observed in close to 1500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms. Now They don’t happen to have ‘twisted minds’ do they?? Animals just follow their Natural Instincts which help them hunt and fill their stomachs and copulate. So.. This behaviour just cannot be a ‘twisted’ story.
3. The religious leaders claiming to have cured the ‘disease’: Ahem Ahem: Are you not supposed to be ‘brahmachari’?? And if you indeed have lived up to that, you should not be having an idea about sexual behaviors/inclinations. Its not your turf Babas.. So just leave it to the people who enjoy it and don’t want to lie about it! And as for those you claim to have cured.. Ever occurred to you they could have just lied to escape the mental torture of being cured from a disease which is not a disease at all!

You know.. the list can go and on.. But the underlying point is till the point it is consensual between two adults, who are you and me to raise eyebrows! What people do in their bedrooms is strictly their business. Not any Baba’s, or any MP’s and certainly not ‘society’s’ (what is that again??) So, lets just try and leave them alone and not judge them on their sex lives. And if you just cant help not poking your noses into other people business…Focus on Sex crimes: Sodomy, Rapes... Raise these issues.. Safety of womean and children. Focus on spreading awareness against STDs. Try to get involved with the Sex Education programmes. Raise a protest against those who are against Sex Education in Schools. Channelize your energies for the right issues and you may help in building a better society!
P.S. Leave these guys alone.. Just imagine if you had the whole world discussing what you do with your partner in Bed is right/wrong/unnatural/abnormal……..
Did you say… Disgusting?? Exactly My point!