Delhi - Love Under The Rainbow

lets hope that what comes soon is a legal right for gays to do things like share property, marry, adopt... live their lives as anyone wants to. this is one big step in the right direction, and I am happy.

I just wish that there were less people seeing this as only about sex. this is about love, as you have rightly mentioned. the right to LOVE who you want.

I was listening right now to one of my most favorite songs, called "Go West" by the band "Pet Shop Boys". It is a pretty peppy song with nice beats, and very meaningful lyrics. The Song seemingly has a strong gay rights/emancipation theme (besides obvious references to Communism and the Soviet Union)

link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G75tH2wfvQ

Well, I guess the "West" has arrived in Delhi. Finally, the gays have something to be really 'gay' about :-)

Cheers,
Ayan

ayan, PSB have a strong gay following and have always been gay rights activists... Neil Tennant is an "out" homosexual...

Good article.

Just the other day,I was discussing civil rights movement with a black (African American) friend. She made an interesting remark as - Civil Rights Movement was not BLACK struggle, so its not called as Black Rights Movement. The struggle was about honour, respect and equality irrespective of color, caste,or race.

And it was not just blacks who fought the struggle, the whites too took initiation and participation in the movement. This struggle would have never been a success story without the support and understanding of white commarades.

Deepti, you are right.It is this time the gays need support and understanding of the heterosexuals the most. It is responsibility of heterosexuals to prepare condusive ground for the queer pheonix to reach for the rainbow.

Go India Go!!!

Thanks Smallsquirrel, for the information. I did not know much about the Pet Shop Boys group or about its singers, and I was doubtful other people would have heard about it. It's just that I heard their catchy song last year and ever since it has been stuck in my head.
Seems the group is not as obscure as I thought!

To be really really honest here, I have nothing against homosexuals per se; I strongly support their right to a life with dignity and a right to love freely as any normal person, and I am dismayed by the hatred and persecution meted out towards many of their kind by bigoted, intolerant people everywhere in the world.
However, possessing hetero-sexual deries myself, I do admit I get a bit grossed out and revolted while trying to picturize the sex act between two homo-sexuals in my mind.
But then I think that physical attraction and desire work in different ways for different people, and what may seem disgusting to me may be extremely desirable and attractive to someone else. It's just putting yourself in someone else's brain, which is extremely difficult.

Right now I feel, as long as people keep their private attractions and desires to (or between) themselves, I am quite fine with it. (In fact that's the way all of us are supposed to behave in public, are'nt we?)
I can also thus conclude that while thinking or talking about homosexuals, it's best for hetero-sexuals not to focus too much on the "SEXUAL" aspect of their lives, but to treat them as normal human beings with feelings and thoughts like us. Maybe then many of us will learn to look beyond the intrinsic disgust and revulsion with compassion and awareness.
As for the judgement, it's a good beginning towards the process of awareness and compassion.

Cheers,
Ayan

ayan.. yeah PSB are huge. they have been around a long, long time and STILL sell out huge venues all over the world.

and I agree, I wish heteros would stop placing so much value on the sex act. sexuality is also about who you love and spend your life with, not just the gender you want to get it on with. so in reality it is not just who you have sex with, but also about who you go to the grocery store with, and out to eat with, and who you can (or cannot) take as your date to the company party or a bar... think of how frustrating it would be to know that you cannot bring your spouse to a company function.... so yeah, about way more than sex!

As usual the self appointed religious heads are baying for blood. Unfortunate.

this is all good, but i hope we dont become too politically correct about this.

i mean recently a hollywood actor was asked in an interview about a gay kissing scene he was in, to which he jokingly replied "well, this is a job-hazard for a heterosexual male actor"

his reply was met with outcries from the political correctness brigade and he was instantly branded a homophobic.

but notice he was merely expressing his personal dislike of kissing a man or having sex with another man.

he wasnt saying "i think men shouldnt have sex with or kiss other men" OR "homosexuality is just wrong" this would be homophobic. he was merely expressing his personal taste that HE himself was uncomfortable doing that.

i hope we dont become too politically correct like that. there is certain type of people infesting western societies (usualy far leftists, commies, hippies, radical feminists etc) who are just obsessed with political correctness and pour their cynical disgust at anything that does not conform to their views.. who want to silence all DISSENT.