The 27-year-old gay man currently lives in Canada but is originally from Amritsar, Punjab. Indian gay man: ‘I still am very much in the closet’īut for some like Vishal Handa, coming out is still not an option.
‘It’s culture and tradition that matters,’ she said. Hari explained: ‘Other than my mom, no one is going to take this news seriously. Then, randomly, her mother blurted out: ‘I want you to be happy. After a few moments of silence, they started talking about everyday things. Try to change yourself.’Īnd when the news got back to her father, he tried to make her go to a psychiatrist.īut when the news of the 377 decision broke yesterday, her mother called her. When she came out two years ago, her mom responded: ‘I will give you two to three years. The 24-year-old is from South India’s Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Two years ago, Hari Priya came out as a lesbian to her mother after her grandparents were pressuring her to marry a man. They then got angry that she was trying to argue with them, because it’s disrespectful for younger Indian people to talk back to their elders. She said she tried to explain homosexuality as normal, but they wouldn’t listen. They believe openly LGBTI people bring shame to their families, the internet corrupts people into being gay and embracing homosexuality will lead to a population decrease.īut what ‘shocked’ Kavya the most was when her mom said: ‘What can we do if they born with abnormalities in their body?’ She said her parents don’t know much about gender and sexuality, and they refuse to learn. ‘So basically my parents think that homosexuality is against God nature.’ They immediately started ‘pouring’ out their negative views on homosexuality. She sat her parents down and started the conversation by asking whether they heard about the court’s decision. Mom reacts: ‘Homosexuality is against God’ ‘So I decided to come out to my parents,’ she said. ‘It is impossible to describe in words how happy I was to finally be open and proud about my sexuality. ‘When the verdict came out, I was so happy,’ Kavya told Gay Star News. Some of them even took the opportunity to try to come out to their parents.Ģ2-year-old Kavya Reddy (not her real name) is from Visakhapatnam in the south-east Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.Īfter she heard the news about the Supreme Court striking down Section 377, she thought she would finally come out to her parents as bisexual. When India decriminalized homosexuality yesterday (6 September), LGBTI people reacted with relief and joy.