Re: India gets its first official gay club
Hum to mohabbat karey ga
Duniya sey naheen darey ga
Chahey yeh zamana kahe
Hum ko deewana arey
Humto mohabbat karey ga
GAYS IN INDIA closeted by caste and class
reprinted with thanks from INSIDE ASIA magazine
[Re-Emergence - Issue 8 - April 1987]](FreeUK - Customer information | Claranet Soho)
The strongly patriarchal traditions of the extended family, with its arranged marriages, and a set of urban middle class values deriving from the Victorian values - prime among them that of hypocrisy of the British Raj, have resulted in almost total suppression of gay Indian men and women. The gradual acceptance of feminism in some circles has at least allowed some degree of sexual politics to be introduced, including discussion of lesbianism. In general, though, the radical left, argue Sunil Gupta and Ashish Kumar, have adopted the same homophobic perspective common to socialist policy makers in most parts of the Third World today, from Cuba to Vietnam and from Algeria to China, failing to recognise the intrinsic role of sexual politics in progressive democratic society.