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Couple of days back marked the 10th year since the release of the movie ‘Fight Club’. Even though I have watched that iconic movie couple of times back I could not abstain from awing at the novel ideas used in the film making. And there came the bathtub scene involving Brad Pitt and Edward Norton widely perceived as homo-erotic .But David Fincher says he purposely made so engaging the audiences on something keeping them from guessing the later twists in the movie. Brad Pitt comments,
“We are one generation of men raised by women. Is another woman is the answer we really need?”
How perfectly timed I thought because the same day marked the 40 years since the famous ‘Stone Wall’ riot. Rainbow parades by LGBT right activist were held in many Indian cities even here in New Delhi.
And came the statement from the Health Ministry stressing the need for the debate on Section 377 of IPC taking an complete opposite stand from the its previous holder. Now whole India is prescribing what is normal and abnormal. Nobody cares who they to do so are. Normal behavior of one may be abnormal to the other. So is the case in sexual orientation. This draconian law was brought by Lord Macaulay in India in 1860.It is quite Ironical that a person who claimed to be so broad minded and coming from secular culture saying ‘The whole literature of India and Arabia is equivalent to a single book shelf of England’ was so narrow and bigoted in bringing the law. But nevertheless England has already decriminalized the consensual carnal intercourse between adults. But we Indians have ‘CULTURE & MORAL’ attached with us. And it should not be given up for any reason whatsoever. Because of our culture of eating cows & dogs have later changed to worshipping them and because our culture of brothers having sex with sisters, Mothers with Sons and fathers with daughters changed it does not mean that we have to change this time too [No exaggerations here. Ask someone who has literally drank all the four Vedas because Rig Veda has numerous references to it.
You could refer to any of the books on Ancient India for that matter].
Don’t you think that it is ridiculous that these religious fundamentalists and chauvinists[of all religions] who have neither studied medicine nor even had science in their primary education claim Homosexuality a disease while renowned Medicos, Scientists and Psychiatrists of organizations including World Health Organization, United Nations and American Psychiatric Association call it a normal behavior. So Fuc… Oops! Chuck religion. At least in this matter. Long back children who were left-handed were considered witches and children of Satan’s. Parents of those children punished them for being so and coerced them to use their right hand. Later it was proved being south-pawed is nothing more or less than being right handed. Isn’t the alternative sexual orientation the same?
Another nonsense theory put forth by these bigots is that Homosexuality will collapse the family system and ethos attached to it and they go even went to such an extent that homosexuals may lure heterosexuals. What a bullshit this is? Like Sean Penn asks in the movie ‘Milk’,
“How could Homosexuality be taught? Is it like French?”
This shows how pathetically ignorant these people are. Homosexuality can’t be influenced or taught or lured into. It all depends on the Hormonal content. Sean Penn portrayed Harvey Milk beautifully in that movie. There comes a beautifully scripted argument against the ‘Proposition 6’ [a law which makes gay teachers and their supporters lose their jobs since they might teach Homosexuality to the heterosexual children studying under them!] where the protagonist clearly says homosexuality can neither be taught nor inherited as he was born to a perfectly heterosexual parents, raised in a heterosexual environment and taught by heterosexual teachers yet he is an Homosexual. Also he argues that if students start mimicking their teacher half of the America would be nuns. How true!
Since 90% of us including the author of this post (I had to make this intentionally clear) are straight doesn’t mean the remaining 10% are abnormal. Delhi court has rightly observed that criminalizing Homosexuality is against Articles 21[Right to protection of Life & Personal Liberty],14[Right to equality before law] and 15[Prohibition of Discrimination on grounds of religion ,Race, caste, sex or place of birth] of the constitution. I hope that this is translated as amendment to the to the section 377 of IPC. After all if it was only for Black & White world would not have been so brighter. There are more hues to everything not just Black & White.
New Delhi, 4th July 09
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