Baba Ramdev set to challenge HC verdict legalising gay sex

Baba Ramdev set to challenge HC verdict legalising gay sex

'The decision of the HC, if allowed to sustain will have catastrophic effects on the moral fabric of society.'

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will be approaching the Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the Delhi High Court judgement legalising gay sex among the consenting adults.

The petition is likely to be filed tomorrow, lawyers associated with Ramdev said. Lawyers Suresh Sharma and Gandharva Makker said the petition assailing the High Court verdict was to be filed on Tuesday but was delayed due to "unavoidable circumstances".

They said the yoga guru has challenged the July 2 judgement contending that homosexual activities are not only against public morality, public health and healthy environment but also against the interest of the society.

"...homosexual activities which are otherwise unnatural there is high risk of exposure of a large chunk of population to dangerous sexually transmitted disease including HIV/AIDS," the petition, likely to be filed, said.

"The decision of the High Court, if allowed to sustain will have catastrophic effects on the moral fabric of society and will jeopardise the institution of marriage itself. This offends the structure of Indian value system, Indian culture and traditions, as derived from religious scriptures," it said.

Ramdev, quoting Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas, contended that homosexuality is a disease that is curable.

"It can be treated like any other congenital defect. Such tendencies can be treated by yoga, pranayam and other meditation techniques," he said in the petition.

The High Court, in a landmark verdict, legalised gay sex among consenting adults, which was earlier an offence under Section 377 of Indian Penal Code with punishment up to life imprisonment.

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Gay Couples Adopting Children Make them GAY Child ??????

When homosexuality was decriminalized by the Delhi High Court five months ago, the government didn't oppose the decision, winning points for finally recognizing basic rights of sexual preference and identity.

But now, one of the government's own agencies is trying to stop gay couples from adopting children.  In a new set of guidelines, the Central Adoption
Resource Agency  (CARA), which regulates adoptions, says that same sex couples should be banned from adopting.

That's caught the gay and lesbian community off-guard. Once homosexuality was decriminalized, adoption was seen as the next step.  Being eliminated purely on the basis of their sexual orientation smacks off homophobia, some say.

"What is wrong with gay people adopting? What are they afraid of? Are they afraid the children will turn gay? Don't they know one cannot turn gay by external influences and that it's inherent? A lot of gay people even without partners would like to adopt so they have a family of their own, "asks Nitin Karani, a gay rights activist.

Harish Iyer, an Events Manager in Mumbai, adds, "One day or the other I see myself settled with or without a guy. But I would definitely like to have a child." Unlikely if the current proposal goes through.

The law may have changed, he says, but clearly attitudes, even among those shaping policy, remain outdated.

SC issues notices to Centre, Naz Foundation on homosexuality

SC issues notices to Centre, Naz Foundation on homosexuality

The Supreme Court issued notices to the Union Government and the NAZ foundation on a petition filed by former Uttar Pradesh DGP and senior VHP leader B P Singhal, challenging the Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising homosexuality.

Mr Singhal, the elder brother of VHP leader Ashok Singhal, in his petition has contended that legalising homosexuality between two consenting adults and recommendations of the High Court to the government to make suitable amendments in Section 377 of the IPC goes against the cultural ethos of Indian society. It will encourage sexual corruption in the society and also violate the law of nature, he said.

The apex court, however, refused to pass any order on the plea for a stay of the impugned order.

The Delhi High Court in its judgement dated July 2, 2009 had decriminalised the sexual act between two consenting same sex adults.

Petitions filed by Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and an astrologer Suresh Kumar Kaushal are already pending in the Supreme Court.

Singhal petition will also be heard along with other petitions.

The Union Government is, however, not opposing the High Court judgement.

Should Prostitution be legalised or decriminalised?

Will legalising prostitution, an issue raised by the Supreme Court, end the exploitation of thousands of women pushed into the flesh trade and help curb the spread of HIV or would it be better to decriminalise it?

On Wednesday, Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A.K. Patnaik of the apex court told Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam on the matter of prstitution that "when you say it is the world's oldest profession and when you are not able to curb it by laws, why don't you legalize it? You can then monitor the trade, rehabilitate and provide medical aid to those involved."

Kerala Education and Culture Minister M.A. Baby said there are countries that have legalized the world's oldest profession "but in a place like ours which has a rich cultural ethos, this certainly cannot happen".

"In order to tackle HIV, basic education has to be provided to all with special emphasis on adult education at the Plus 2 levels. The present employment guarantee scheme should also be spread across the length and breadth of the country. Child marriages should not take place and land reforms should be undertaken," Baby told IANS.

S.K. Harikumar, behavior physician and a leading consultant in HIV/AIDS, said that legalizing and decriminialisation are two different issues.

"As far as I see this, decriminalization of multi-partner sex among both males and females should take place. This should no longer be a criminal act. The right to privacy in sexual acts, urges and desires should be vested with the individual. Legalising this will in no way guarantee anything," Harikumar said.

According to the latest figures, Harikumar said there are more than 55,000 prostitutes in Kerala and the pattern over the years is that it has been showing consistent growth.

Fr Paul Thelakat, spokesperson of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala, said there is no guarantee that HIV can be eradicated by legalizing prostitution but would instead aggravate it.

"We are living in a world where man and woman are equal with full dignity of a son and daughter of god. A nation must engage in greater efforts to help free women from the abuses against human dignity that result from prostitution. The state must not make prostitution a form of employment but provide other dignified employment opportunities," Thelakat told IANS.

Nalini Jameela, 56, who has been a sex worker since 1978, is in the news because of her Malayalam book, translated into English as "Autobiography of a Sex Worker", which sold 13,000 copies within 100 days of its release in 2004 and went through six editions.

Attending a conclave of sex workers in Bangalore, Jameela said she has to literally fight every day against the stigma attached to her profession. "We have done our best to be part of various other mainstream groups, but we are still stigmatised," lamented the author and sex workers' rights activist.

Nalini feels the biggest battle for her community is to make the profession legal. "Once our profession is legalised, nobody can harass us," Nalini told IANS.

"On one hand, police use force and violence against us. Society also discriminates against us because of our profession. All this violence and discrimination will end once our profession is legalised," she said.

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Gyaneshwar Patil unnatural sexual harassment attempt challenged

Gyaneshwar Patil unnatural sexual harassment attempt challenged

The Madhya Pradesh High Court asked the State Chief Secretary to reply why the accused, former IAS officer and suspended Zila Panchayat Bhopal chief executive officer Gyaneshwar Patil was reinstated and promoted with posting of Member, Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA), involved in unnatural sexual attempt on a Panchayat Secretary, under his jurisdiction, and attempts were on to withdraw the criminal case, in which the victim was harassed and tortured and the state police failed to take action against the main accused since, last six months, as per criminal case registered against Patil, on a petition.

The single bench of Justice Ajeet Singh, while hearing the petition of Village Panchayat Sikandarabad, Secretary Satish Chouksey, in Bhopal District, seeking court directives for high level probe against the Bhopal, Police Authorities, General Administration Department Secretary, Chief Secretary and others for their involvement of saving the accused Gyaneshwar Patil an IAS officer, posted as the CEO of Zila Panchayat Bhopal, from the crimial charges, as registered for the crime under section 377 of IPC, and was suspended under the intervention by the state Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan, admitted the same, and issued notices to state government.

The court also directed to issue notices to Rakesh Sahni, chief Secretary , Secretariat panchayat department, Superintendent of Police Bhopal(SP), Collector,(BPL), NVDA, Secretary General Administration Dept, accused of sodomy and criminal case registered with Shyamala hill and asked police to file their reply within one week. The court has fixed the date of hearing on 13 November 2009.

Petitioners counsel N K Rahore, submitted before the court that IAS officer Gyaneshwar Patil was posted as the CEO, Zila Panchayat Bhopal in May and on June 18, 2009 and called the petitioner and Panchayat secretary to his official residence of Shyamla Hills, with JNRM Scheme construction work and taken serious note objection on it and threatened the Secretary petitioner Chouksey (PSC), for the consequences of suspension, for which the PSC tendered apology to which the Zila Panchayat CEO, asked him to remove cloths and cooperate him for illegal sex, to which the petitioner refused, and was the victim of the sexual attempt made by Mr Patil, and harassment and physical abuse to which Satish restrained and managed to reach the police station after midnight. The counsel contended that though the entire scenario was recorded under the sting operation by a local channel, looking to the activity of the accused Gyaneshwar Patil and his past habit to call the subordinate employees and harass them physically with torture and threat, and the same was shown on local channels on next date of registering the criminal case against the said suspended IAS officer Patil, on June 18, 2009.

He informed that inspite of the serious crime of sodomy committed by Patil, the police failed to arrest the accused as the entire episode was shown on television channels of Bhopal and on next date of release seen by the state Chief Minister Shiv Raj Chouhan he, intervened in the matter and suspended Patil, also removed his posting from Bhopal Zila Panchayat. Mr Rathore informed that inspite of the demand made by the political parties of Bhopal against the state BJP and Chief Minister Chouhan leveling the allegation of support to Patil, CM again intervened in the matter and in order to save the image of the state BJP in this sodomy matter, directed the PHQ to take the action in the FIR registered against suspended IAS officer Patil, registered on the night of June 17,18,2009 and the cassette of the episode was with the DGP of the state, but inspite of the State CM orders the PHQ failed o take any action against the suspended IAS Patil, and also investigate the matter properly, and since last six months the petitioner is facing the threat harassment, and torture with other political parties putting pressure to withdraw the criminal; case of sexual harassment against the suspended IAS, Patil which are illegal and arbitrary.

The Petitioner challenged the reinstatement of the said suspended IAS officer, Patil by the General administration department which needs the approval and can be done only by the recommendation of Chief Minister and the Union Home Minister.

The petitioner prayed high level probe in the matter of PHQ inaction for investigation against the suspended IAS accused Patil, and promotion of a criminal charges facing officer as the Member of NVDA, and orders for protection and his safety, from the threat he was facing from various corners of political side, inspite of state CM orders.

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Mob Beats Gay Man to Death in His Own Home ????

A disturbing story from Karachi, Pakistan - 60-year-old Mohammad Hashim Jhokio was beaten to death by an angry mob after they burst in to his home and allegedly caught him with another man:
"The deceased was a watchman by profession and had been married for the last 25-30 years without any children. Police officials further said that the deceased was living separately in the village and was abhorred by his fellow villagers for being a homosexual. They said a group of angry people raided his house where he was indulged in an obscene activity with a man and killed him on the spot by hitting him with clubs and rods. Police officials said that apparently it was a case of ‘vigilante justice’ as people were enraged over the sexual behaviour of the deceased Jhokio. However, there were no details available about the other person who was present with the deceased when he was beaten to death."

1. This is a common occurrence for that part of the world. It's dominated by one of the most repressive, primitive barbaric religions in the world (islam--all abrahamic religions are, of course, primitive but Islam is definitely more of a threat to the stability of geopolitics right now), coupled with an almost universal lack of education and crushing poverty. None of this is an excuse, of course--merely an explanation.
   
   

'Sec 377 should'vebeen applied'

AGPUR: P K Sathianathan, former district government pleader and public prosecutor, said that the police should have immediately slapped Section
377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Avinash Janvey. "Once there is a specific allegation and there is a prima facie case, police should not dither in applying the relevant sections.

Instead of trying to avoid the hassle of deleting the sections at a later stage, police should get the case medically approved. Instead of waiting for the medical report to arrive, just apply Section 511 of Indian Penal Code too. This section is applied to cases where at least an attempt was made even if the actual was not committed," said Sathianathan exposing the lacuna in police action.

According to a social worker, police should not take the offences related to minor and sex offences lightly. "The eagerness the cops show at naka-bandis should be channelised into conducting proper investigations into sensitive cases like this one," said he.

Section377 Ecourage to SAY ??? 'My son is GADU , I'm proud to be His/GANDU,s Mom'

Section377 Ecourage to SAY ??? '
My son is GADU , 

I'm proud to be His or ( Gandu )  Mom'

confidences and charted the way ahead
On October 23, Tarun Gupta (name changed) gathered  courage and told his mom a secret he liked men.
Eight days later, Mrs Gupta and her son were among 130 participants at the Gay ( Gandu ) Bombay Parents' and relatives' meet.
The meet organised at Liquid Lounge, Charni Road, which saw one of the largest gatherings of parents and relatives of homosexuals in the city, went on for three hours last afternoon.
In fact, another first at the meeting was the venue a lounge bar a departure from the usual house meetings.

 
Not gossip anymore
"Ever since the issue of Article 377 came up, it has reached dining rooms in the form of news, not gossip. Everyone has become more aware about the issue.
The rise in the figures at the meeting today can be credited to the media," said Harish Iyer, an event organiser, who is openly ( Gandu ) gay.
There were few parents like Mrs Gupta, who immediately accepted their son's sexual bend, but there were as many, who first tried other methods to mend their son's gay 'tendencies'.
One such parent Mrs Shah (name changed) took her son to an astrologer, then to a sexologist and finally to a psychiatrist.
The astrologer said my son would become straight by mid 2006 and asked him to visit a devi temple every Thursday
The others told me I could change my son's ( Gandu ) mindset. Finally, I realised nothing worked and accepted him the way he is," she said.
Sobha Doshi's son Shammit told her he was ( Gandu ) gay over the phone from Atlanta nearly three years ago. "I caught the next flight and went to meet my son ( Gandu )  and his boyfriend. It was fine," she beamed.
'It's not a crime'
Doshi, a cancer survivor, meets parents to make them realise  that being gay ( Gandu ) is not a crime or a hormonal disorder. "One just needs to accept things.
I could fight my cancer because I accepted it and the same held true for my son. I accepted him the way he was and today we are happy.
I visit my son and stay with him and his boyfriend in the US for as long as six months at a stretch."
The only concern parents have is of the future. "I want my son( Gandu )  to be in a steady relationship, so that he will have a companion and can live his days happily," said a mother.
Another parent added, "I want a partner for my son ( Gandu ) . And I would search for him the way I would for a daughter-in-law."
In a touching moment of reaffirmation, a sister said she would only marry a guy who accepted her gay ( Gandu ) brother.
Up Ahead...
The parents and the organisers have also decided to form a forum to support the cause of Section 377 by writing letters, which will be presented to the Supreme Court.
Virkam Dcotor, founder of Gay ( Gandu ) Bombay and the organiser of the event, said, "Parents' unity will certainly help the community and quite clearly, the overwhelming response, brings us hope."
Article 377
The Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code upheld that unnatural sex was a crime. However, on July 2, 2009 the Delhi High Court read down the article.
This meant that consensual sex among adults was no longer a crime.
The lesbian ( Gandu ) , gay ( Gandu ) , bisexual ( Gandu ) and transgender ( Gandu ) community celebrated the day as their new Independence Day.
However, nearly 14 religious and other fundamentalist groups filed their petition against the verdict and the case is with Supreme Court now.
Did you know?
Indian laws do not allow the adoption of a child by a gay or lesbian couple

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Govt. silent on gay issue, asks SC to decide ??????

Fearing severe backlash from religious-right conservatives, the government has decided to avoid consenting on the decriminalization of gay sex by the Delhi High Court.

On Thursday, following a union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it was decided that the government would remain mum on the gay issue, leaving the Supreme Court to decide for itself the final verdict.

“The Cabinet decided to ask the Attorney General to assist the Supreme Court in every way desired by it in arriving at an opinion on the correctness of the judgment of the High Court,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said after the meeting.

The Delhi High Court earlier on July 2 legalized gay sex among consenting adults, amending Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict, however, was challenged in the Supreme Court by various religious groups, including Christians. But, the Supreme Court refused to stay the HC order and said it would wait for a response from the government.

Later, the government set a Group of Ministers comprising P. Chidambaram (Home), Ghulam Nabi Azad (Health) and M. Veerappa Moily (Law) to deliberate and sum up its opinion. Subsequently, the government decided to not oppose the decriminalizing of gay sex. But, fearing backlash it still has not made any any direct conclusion in the controversial subject.

Meanwhile, the UNAIDS welcomed the cabinet's decision and said it was a right step in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

“Let us be clear on exactly what removing the coercive and penal laws suppressing homosexuals’ rights means — free discussion can be had with people who are at much higher risks of HIV infection; sex between men will not be driven underground and away from the services which are needed to protect health and preserve well-being; and government and NGO clinics can provide openly services geared towards homosexuals,” an UNAIDS statement said.

The next hearing on the matter would be on October 1

10 years under Section 377 (unnatural offences) and seven years under Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the IPC.

In a new twist to the sensational case of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl at Jaihindpuram here in 2006, the death convict V. Selvam on Wednesday claimed that he was a minor at the time of the alleged occurrence of the crime.

Disposing of a criminal appeal filed by him in the Madras High Court Bench here against the conviction and death sentence, Justices P. Murgesen and C.S. Karnan remitted the matter back to the trial court for considering it afresh.

According to the prosecution, Selvam, joined as a casual worker with a flower vendor who had his shop-cum-residence at Jaihindpuram. He was accommodated in the same house since he claimed to be hailing from Tiruchi.

On October 22, 2006, he raped his employer’s daughter, then studying in fourth standard. The girl sustained head injuries when she resisted. She was also strangulated. A few days later, her dead body was found in a carton in the second floor of the house.

The Mahila Court here on August 1, 2008 convicted Selvam under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and imposed capital punishment. The court found it to be a rarest of rare case warranting death sentence.

He was also sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment under Section 450 (house trespass), life sentence under Section 376 (rape), another 10 years under Section 377 (unnatural offences) and seven years under Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the IPC.

The trial court judgement was immediately referred to the High Court for confirmation in accordance with procedures prescribed under the Code of Criminal Procedure for dealing with cases relating to imposition of death sentence.

Simultaneously, the convict also filed an appeal assailing the trial court judgement as well as the prosecution case on various grounds. He had mentioned his age as 22 in an affidavit filed in support of his criminal appeal filed last year.

However, now the convict filed a fresh petition raising an additional ground that he was only 17 years old at the time of the alleged occurrence of crime. “Unfortunately I had not raised the above ground at the time of trial,” he said.

Claiming that he was born on June 1, 1989 as per a certificate issued by a Panchayat Union middle school at Tirupparankundram, he contended that he ought to have been tried by a Juvenile Justice Board and not the Mahila Court.

Keywords: rape, murder, Juvenile Justice Board, Indian Penal Code, Mahila Court

If you are a homosexual you may be in for a shock ????

Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups they prefer to pursue conversion therapy ??????? Each time a gay sees a picture of a naked man and is about to get an arousal, he is given an electric shock. Doctors from renowned institutions across the country are practising aversion therapy in the belief that homosexuality is a disease. Aman Khanna reports anand naorem Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups they prefer to pursue conversion therapy Eighteen is no age to be in the grip of neurosis. That’s not the time when you are drowned in the waves of depression. But when boys of his age were chasing girls with a spring in their walk, reading romantic poetry and sweating it out on cricket fields, Mahesh would sit in a dark corner at home and let an anxiety engulf him. He would think about the hostel mate he was deeply attracted to. Mahesh knew he was unlike the other boys. But he could not put his finger on the difference. When the depression became intense and Mahesh felt he was losing it, he decided to “address the issue”. He approached his family doctor. The physician said he didn’t know what was causing the depression and referred Mahesh to a sexologist. A famous practitioner in Mumbai, the sexologist told Mahesh he was suffering from a “disease” called homosexuality, but there was no cause to worry — the “disease” could be cured. He added he had cured many lesbians of the same disorder. The bottom line was clear: Mahesh was sick and he needed immediate treatment. The much-promised treatment began, with the sexologist asking Mahesh to come back to him with at least 10 nude pictures of men in different poses he found attractive. “He said he would flash those pictures and at the time of arousal, he would administer shocks or impulses on my body,” Mahesh recounts, “As that was happening, he would flash pictures of naked women. And then, no impulses.” Over a period of time, the doctor said, Mahesh’s mind would get averse to homosexual thoughts. The doctor said the treatment would take a long time. At the very least, four to five visits. The sexologist didn’t give a name to the treatment, but he promised complete cure. In clinical jargon it is called aversion therapy. Or as laymen refer to it — shock therapy. Mahesh came out of the clinic certain he did not want to take any treatment for his problem. He called up his family physician and said, “I think I will be able to handle it on my own.” He never went back to the sexologist. Mahesh managed to escape without any shock, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands, who do go ahead with the therapy prescribed to Mahesh. Till this day, a primitive and obsolete treatment like shock therapy is being used on homosexuals across the country “to turn them into normal heterosexuals”. Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups, sensitive to the feelings of homosexuals many doctors prefer to pursue a line of conversion therapy. That is, to convert them into heterosexuals. Most often, the doctors’ argument is — “What can I do if some people approach me for treatment? Do I turn them away?” But you scratch the surface a bit and the real reason for continuance of such therapy emerges — it is the bias, prejudice and ignorance that still grips the majority of the medical fraternity in this country. Many psychiatrists and psychologists approached by this reporter perceived homosexuality as a “deviation”, a “variation”, a “disorder”. They see it as a deep psychological problem that can be cured by some old-fashioned techniques and methods. And aversion therapy, or shock therapy, just happens to be one of the magus’ tricks. Damned Right: a recreated session of aversion therapy using models photo s. radhakrishna Electrodes looking like “a headphone” were put on his head, and then he was senseless. Almost paralysed by the 110 volts The electrical current passes through the bodies like hundreds of ants biting together, but it is the anxiety of anticipating a shock that is a thousand times more painful. They are made to feel guilty for the way they are Arvind Narrain and Vinay Chandran have been fighting for gay rights in Bangalore. Last year, they interviewed numerous counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists in India’s Silicon Valley to find out why they are still using aversion therapy to change people’s sexuality. In one of the interviews, a behavioural therapist reasoned: “Shock therapy causes as much tissue damage as anal sex. So, why fuss?” Lata Hemchand, a clinical psychologist based in Bangalore, was practising aversion therapy till four years ago, but now advises homosexuals to approach support groups which can really help them in overcoming the problems. She admits most medical practitioners still see homosexuality as a deviation that “has to be set right”. Hemchand might have turned over a new leaf, but most doctors still see aversion therapy as a normal treatment — even in the best of neurological and psychological centres like National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (nimhans) in Bangalore. A clinical psychologist at nimhans confessed, on the condition of anonymity, that aversion therapy was used extensively in the hospital till four years ago. But, even today, it is administered sometimes as a part of the larger treatment of “orgasmic reconditioning” — a therapy which requires the homosexual to think of the opposite sex just at the time of ejaculation. There is more on offer at nimhans. MP Sharma, another clinical psychologist at the famous institute, told Narrain and Chandran that treatments include “psycho-education, cognitive restructuring, orgasmic reconditioning” and, of course, “aversion relief wherein we give them a mild electrical shock when they are watching homosexual imagery”. The line of treatment is based on Pavlov’s work on conditioning. Russian experimental psychologist Ivan Pavlov rang a bell every time to tell his dog its mealtime. After some time, the dog began salivating just at the sound of the bell. The theory concluded that certain associations produce positive or negative reactions in one’s body. The same theory was first used for alcoholics and then extended to homosexuals. The intention is to relate homosexuality with guilt and punishment. Two electrodes on Velcro patches are attached to the upper arm or the wrist of a homosexual. Sometimes it is attached on the thigh, too. On the other end is a small vanity box-sized transformer, which clearly spells out in large font size ‘Aversion Therapy Equipment’. RAKESH kumar, 27 Travel agent, Mumbai   I was in school then, probably in Class XII. I was confused about myself; I liked both men and women, but mainly men. And it used to haunt me. There were times I used to get terribly depressed. I had no option but to meet a psychiatrist. He is a famous practitioner in a reputed hospital in Navi Mumbai. He said, “You are going through a phase. It is an addiction, an abnormal behaviour.” The first day, he asked me to get a hiv test done. Then, he gave me injections. I don’t know what it was, but it would take care of my depression, it would cheer me for a while. Wherever he was, I would call and go over for an injection. He also put me on Prozac. Once, he called an older woman to his clinic in the night. She must have been 25 or 30, probably a sex-worker. The doctor asked me to caress her and imagine that I was attracted to her. He wanted to prove to me that I will get a hard on. After a while, I told him it’s just not possible. But I was naïve; I carried on the therapy. I was using my parents’ money to buy the medicines. Obviously, over time, they found the bills and approached the doctor. When he called me up, I told him not to disclose anything of my sexuality. He still did. I never went back to him after that. In the first session the doctor measures the homosexual’s threshold of pain. The clinical psychologist jacks up the voltage step by step to find out how the homosexual feels. Does it hurt at all, or is the pain “mildly unpleasant” or painful? Once the individual says it is painful, the voltage is lowered by a few degrees. The pain threshold has been calculated. All shocks would be of this voltage. Just before leaving the homosexual is asked to bring nude pictures of men he finds attractive. From the next session on, those nude photos are projected on a wall. Pictures of naked men interspersed with naked women. Every time a gay sees a picture of a naked man, and is just about to get an arousal, he is given a shock. And as pictures of naked women come on, the electrical wires are switched dead. The course is reversed for a lesbian. The treatment usually continues for two to three months. About 15 shocks of 30 volts a session, one hour a day, two sessions a week. The ‘patient’ needs at least 20 sessions, each costing between Rs 200 and 500. The electrical current passes through the bodies like hundreds of ants biting together, but it is the anxiety of anticipating a shock that is a thousand times more painful. “The harm is in the innocuousness of the whole thing,” says Narrain. Men and women are being made to feel guilty for the way they are. Till a few years ago, the archaic therapy was being tried on cross-dressers too. They were made to wear “their sex’s clothes” and then given a shock. It was given up when success was found scarce. Aversion therapy, though, is not the only trick up doctors’ sleeves; there are other therapies to do exactly the same. Male hormones are being injected into so-called effete men. In rural areas, health workers have come across quacks prescribing bizarre concoctions in green bottles and colourful pills to those not in touch with their masculine side. Talking to Narrain and Chandran for their study, a famous sexologist in Bangalore, Vinod Chebbi, criticised aversion therapy because “it took pleasure away” from sex. But, in the same breath, boasted of his cure to homosexuality — replacement therapy. “I show a series of pictures of heterosexual activity. I teach them how to enhance pleasure by the use of lubricant,” he explained, “I give him an idea of what is the vagina and how one can masturbate with lubricant so that the organ slides into the vagina.” Shockingly, at times, doctors even see electro-convulsive therapy (ect) — the shock therapy one usually sees in films — as an option. Aniruddha Bose was one of those who received ect. Twice. Back in 1995, Bose was pursuing chemical engineering from Jadavpur University in Kolkata. He had always been good at studies in school and college, scoring high marks. But even as a young man, he never understood all the jabber about girls. With time, he became aggressive, even violent. His parents consulted a doctor and he, in turn, sent Bose to a private nursing home. They told him “homosexuality was not a good thing”, that “it caused aids”. On one of the visits to the hospital, he was told he would be given shock treatment. Even then he didn’t resist, thinking the doctors were there to help him out. His parents were not present there. The male nurses held him down on a bed while the doctor placed a wooden block in his mouth. “I think it was to prevent me from biting my own tongue,” Bose says. Electrodes looking like “a headphone” were put on his head, and then he was senseless. Almost paralysed by the 110 volts. The shocks continued for three weeks. Twice a week. Every time, four or five people would come to his house and drag him away. He was put on a medication that still continues. Sanjay Kumar, 32 Tailor, New Delhi I was deeply troubled by my sexuality. I didn’t know what homosexuality meant. All I knew was that I was different. I had regular bouts of epression, but I couldn’t share it with my parents. Someone told me I could get treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. I went there with my friend. The psychiatrist told me, “It is unnatural. You aren’t supposed to be this way. Some day, you will have to get married. You can’t have children if you stay like this. You have to understand, the society doesn’t accept this.” He first recommended shock therapy to me. He said I would be fine after just five or six shocks. But I said ‘no’. I was scared; I had seen people given shocks in films. So he put me on non-prescription drugs. He would pull them out of his drawer. I was supposed to take three doses every day. Each dose had four tablets – two white, one yellow and one brown tablet. He said it would continue for six months. But, even after two months I didn’t feel any change. One day, travelling in a bus, I saw a sticker of the Naz Foundation India. I met a counsellor in their office, heard people discussing homosexuality. I owe a lot to them. I still feel angry at times. That doctor must have treated so many who were confused like me. There must have been so many who didn’t find any help. And then it happened again in 1997. The same shocks. The doctor told him the therapy was because of his “orientation”. He said, “If you don’t give it up, you will have to be admitted again.” His sister-in-law said the same. Bose was admitted again in the same clinic in 1999 and then in 2002, but he pleaded not to be given shock therapy. His parents are old now, and Bose says he has forgiven them. There appears no clear way to find the number of homosexuals undergoing aversion therapy each month, each year. Those who have experienced the trauma of receiving shocks are hesitant even to share it with gay and lesbian support groups. In any case, given the figures of gays and lesbians who approach mental health specialists for counselling, it must be large. All of it could stop only if doctors stop seeing homosexuality as a mental disorder. But doctors argue they cannot be singled out for their prejudices because it is the society that sees homosexuality as an aberration. In fact, it is usually the parents who push their children to get such ‘cure’ of homosexuality. “If only my parents had listened, I wouldn’t have gone through all of this,” says Kiran David in a mellow voice. David was 17 when he suffered a nervous breakdown on realising the man he loved was seeing someone else. His parents admitted him to St John’s Medical College & Hospital in Bangalore. By the age of 18, David became a schizophrenic. He felt people were following him; his phones were being tapped. Today, David is 21 and still has to take anti-depressants four times a day. He can still have an erection, but because of the medicines can never ejaculate. Till today, his parents have not mentioned the word ‘gay’ in front of him. Ironically, David’s father is a social activist who fights for labour and women’s rights, and his mother is a consultant in St John’s Hospital, the institute where he was admitted. There are many like David. But the legal system, too, finds itself tied up when faced with an issue of treatment of homosexuality. In 2003, the Naz Foundation, a Delhi-based group working to prevent the spread of hiv/aids, came across a case of a homosexual who was being given non-prescription drugs for months at no end by a psychiatrist in aiims. A petition with the National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) was rejected without delay. The unofficial reason given was — “Homosexuality is an offence under ipc. Do you want us to take cognisance of something that is an offence?” Most doctors generally hedge the question — why treat someone when they don’t have a ‘disease’. They quote clinical jargon to defend their actions. Homosexuality is generally broken into two conditions. If a person is comfortable with his or her sexuality, it is called ego-syntonic homosexuality. And if they are ill at ease, it is called ego-dystonic homosexuality. Doctors claim they have to treat those who are unhappy with their sexuality, even though the American Psychiatrists’ Association had declassified ego-dystonic homosexuality as a disorder in 1988. None of the psychologists and psychiatrists approached by this reporter was even sure if aversion therapy works. There are no recent studies to support a change in sexuality by shock or any other kind of therapy. Even the anecdotal evidence given in the therapy’s defence is suspect. A few years ago, Hemchand, the Bangalore-based clinical psychologist, used aversion therapy on a middle-aged man who was under family pressure to tie the knot. He returned with his wife a few months later, claiming riddance of the disorder. “But I knew,” Hemchand says, “He was probably deceiving himself.” Everybody this reporter spoke to recollected their experiences not with sorrow. Everybody, instead, spoke of it questioningly, wondering what wrong did they do. As a counsellor who realises the futility of such treatment puts it, why should they be punished for living naturally?

April 09, 200 Moily defends move to let off Quattrocchi Favours opening up legal sector to foreign firms R Sedhuraman Legal Correspondent New Delhi, October 8 Exuding confidence that the proposal to open up the legal sector to foreign law firms will benefit young lawyers, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily today defended the CBI’s decision to withdraw the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the alleged Bofors payoff. Covering a wide-range of issues in an inter-action with the media, Moily refused to specify whether Karnataka High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran would be elevated to the Supreme Court despite allegations of amassing huge wealth. Constitutional authorities responsible for the appointment of judges would not go by “perceptions, impressions and controversies” but by “hard facts and evidences.” Queried further, he said none of the constitutional authorities was “bankrupt of ideas” on how to deal with such situations and that nobody could “hinder or obstruct” the process. Asked about throwing open the legal sector, he said he had discussed the issue with several delegations of young lawyers who were enthusiastic over the move as they felt that they stood to benefit the same way the country’s IT professionals did. Why anyone should doubt the competence of the country’s lawyers and deny them the opportunity to go global, he wondered. However, the final decision on the issue would be arrived at in consultation with the Bar Council of India and other stakeholders. There was a move to set up four law colleges of excellence, one each in every region, on the lines of National Law School, Bangalore, whose students were the most sought after by leading law firms, national and international. The government decided to withdraw the case against Quattrocchi in a Delhi trial court as it could not succeed in the courts of Malaysia and Argentina to get him extradited. Asked why the move had come 20 years after the registration of the case, the minister counter-questioned the reporter: “Do you want to have silver and golden jubilees” of the case? He refused to comment on the apex court’s appeal in the Delhi High Court on the issue whether the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) fell within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, stating that the matter was sub judice. On Section 377 relating to sex among consenting same-sex adults, he said the Cabinet had taken a decision to assist the apex court in deciding the case. Asked about UPA ministers travelling by business class on flights despite booking tickets in economy class, he said he travelled economy class and had not engaged CIDs to spy on his Cabinet colleagues. A new, comprehensive Judges’ Inquiry Bill was almost ready and would be put up for Cabinet approval shortly, Moily said. To a question on the absence of reservation in the higher judiciary, he said the SC collegium was making all efforts to provide for adequate representation to all sections of society and to all regions. Top UN AIDS official urges India not to waver in fight against epidemic UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe with Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Mr Dinesh Trivedi. 8 October 2009 – The role of India’s political leadership is vital to ensure that the country with the highest number of HIV-infected people in Asia achieves its goals of universal access to prevention, care and treatment by 2010, according to a top United Nations AIDS official. Making his first visit to the world’s second most populous country in his official capacity, Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michel Sidibé met with Indians ministers and other officials, congratulating the Government for the progress made in its response to HIV. He praised the results achieved by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in expanding access to treatment beyond targets and implementing programmes which are having a positive impact on HIV transmission rates in the a country where an estimated 2.4 million people are living with HIV. Mr. Sidibé urged Dinesh Trivedi, India’s Minister of State for Health, to guard against complacency towards HIV in the face of other emerging challenges such as H1N1 flu and climate change-related health issues. He appealed for India to strengthen its role in the UNAIDS programmes and become a donor to UNAIDS in view of the country’s increased political and economic status in the world community. For every 100 people living with HIV in India, 61 are men and 39 women and prevalence is high in the 15-49 age group. As in most of Asia, the epidemic is concentrated among key populations at higher risk of HIV, such as sex workers, drug injectors and homosexuals. Mr. Sidibé expressed his support for the recent decision of a Delhi court to annul Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized homosexuality, a breakthrough for rights groups that strengthens the NACO’s efforts to reach out to people at higher risk of HIV, such as men who have sex with men and trans-gendered people. The Commission on AIDS in Asia, an independent body, has noted that India has significantly increased domestic spending on HIV in recent years, accounting for nearly 50 per cent of the country’s total AIDS budget. News Tracker: past stories on this issue At least 4 million receiving AIDS drugs, but millions more lack access, UN reports

377 > Eunuchs be recognised as handicapped

The Rashtriya Vikalang Party (RVP) has demanded keeping eunuchs in the category of handicapped people.
Apart from a large number of handicapped people, several eunuchs took part in the two-day long national convention of the party.
Rashtriya Vikalang Party President K K Dikshit said the Centre was bringing out an amendment for handicapped.
He said certain states had pension scheme for handicapped. The party demanded similar schemes in all states.
Mr Dikshit said eunuchs were also handicapped. So, they should get place in the party. A separate commission should be set up for them.
RVP's eunuch cell president Kamla Bua said lack in any part of the body amounted to handicap. Eunuchs come into this category.

Side Effectts of legalizing Gay Sex in india

Section 377 > 15-yr-old held for sexually abusing minor boy

Chandigarh A 15-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing his eight-year-old neighbour in Palsora village.
The accused was arrested under Section 377 (unnatural offences) and Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and sent to a juvenile home. According to the police, the incident took place around 11 pm on Wednesday when the accused took the victim to the terrace on the pretext of playing.
Fearing stigma, the boy kept weeping and finally disclosed the incident to his mother after much persuasion.
The accused boy, who was present in the house at that time, was then beaten by the neighbours when the victim’s mother raised a hue and cry.
Meanwhile, the police was called in and the minor boy arrested.
The victim was rushed to the Sector-16 Government Multi-Specialty Hospital where he was given medical aid after examination.
The accused was later produced before the magistrate and sent to a juvenile home.

ISTANBUL POLICE IS HUNTING TRANNIES AND TRANSSEXUALS ??

http://www.cnnturk. com/2009/ turkiye/02/ 24/taksimde. silahlar. ve.yumruklar. konustu/515020. 2/index.html

Trannies became a bonus object for Istanbul Police. Ebru Kiranci and Demet Demir now are walking fearfully along Istiklal Street. Because the cops around may fine them any moment for being a “man wearing female clothes".

 “One time I was in a hairdresser and they got me out and took to the police station. They fined me for disturbing the people as 35€ according to the new Turkish Misdemeanor Law. Another time, I had bought meat and bread and was walking to my home, and they fined me again ! And last week, I got 2 fines in one single day. I did not sign some of the fines and signed some. I am really scared from them. They use violence and threaten me to inform our families about our situation. Now we are afraid of getting out.”

A tranny is describing her fears and the pressure upon her as above. And what’s more, she is not the only one who is under oppression. Trannies and transsexuals are worried and terrified. For the last two months, especially in Beyoglu and Sisli districts the trannies are even fined in daily living environments; while getting out from the bakery, while going to the grocery, at the hairdresser' s and etc.

The Non-Profit Social Society Organization of Istanbul Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Trannies (LGBTT) is preparing to file a criminal complaint against the courts. The Association also alleges that the new system in Istanbul Police Department of “earning Point (scores) per issued fine and the number of lawbreaker being caught” increases Istanbul Police’s violence against the trannies to get more “Bonus”. This bonus system has begun with the assignment of Mr. Huseyin Capkin as the Director of Istanbul Police Department by Recep Tayyip Erdogan..

 ‘We are scared to get out the streets ”

Clearing up Izmir and being promoted to Istanbul after Mr.Cerrah (the previous Istanbul Police Director) was sent to another city as a Governor (although he was very poor in his job), the Chief Police Officer of Istanbul Mr.Huseyin Capkin has already made quite a name for himself in his new town with this extraordinary bonus system.

A list of Capkin’s talented success during his time in Izmir is what is next in our agenda and we will discuss them later on...

However, we should give you some tips about him for now. Sir Capkin was an intolerant Turkish “battle hero” especially against Kurds and trannies who himself had sworn to clear Izmir from this pile of “shit”. By the way, Capkin means “Playboy/Womanizer” in Turkish.

In his period, Izmir Police were reaching for their guns and opening fire whenever they want and either were killing or injuring people. I hope you do not think that Cerrah was sent and a better Chief Police Officer was appointed for Istanbul who is more sensitive about human rights and has a modern personality. Or do you ?

Capkin’s bonus system that is based on performance of Istanbul Police as writing fines and catching everyone around as a potential criminal turned into a psychological violence against trannies and transsexuals. The number of people who got fines according to the 37th article of Misdemeanour Act of Turkish Criminal Laws which is “disturbing others in the streets for selling goods or services” is increasing day by day.

We already know that Mr. Capkin is very successful indeed to suppress the trannies and transsexuals in Izmir. Now Istanbul Police will get extra incentives besides their salary each month for the each fine he issues against the trannies. This is surely increasing the homophobia in the society.

The aim is to isolate the trannies from the rest of the people and make their lives miserable. To exile them from the daily life…We surely know this type of brutality shown against the minorities from the past and current wild Fascist regimes.

Ebru Kıranci from LGBTT Society is saying that trannies and transsexuals are ruthlessly seen by Istanbul Police as a bonus for themselves after the “Point Winning” implementation initiated by Mr. Capkin and she asserts some impressive claims such as below ;

 “Most recently, they took out a friend of us from the grocer’s. In the past, they used to take us when we hitchhike at nights on the main roads as per the famous Misdemeanour Law forbids. But now they take us into custody in our daily lives. Our right of living is permanently taken away from us.  Now we are scared totally to go out in the streets even in daytime.. We try to change our way on the streets when we see the cops ahead. They fine us as per the 37th article, but our trannies do not walk in the streets in daytime with the clothes they work at night. Many of our friends are taken from side and back streets, but police officers write the name of Main Street on the fine as if they caught us at the main street. These fines were used to be issued at night while we are hitchhiking. “

 http://vod.cnnturk. com/cnnturk/ haber/24. 02.2009/taksicil er_eylem_ kavga.wmv

Nine fines to a person

It didn’t use to happen daytime like now. Most of our friends do not have any social security. Nor they have money... I know a person who was fined for nine times. I am wearing a long sleeve shirt at this hell hot weather. I cannot wear a short sleeve or a strappy blouse because of my fear from the cops.”

Demet Demir from the same Organization is claiming that the cops were telling them (while writing their fines) “Soon, you will not be able to walk even on this Istiklal Street” which is a main shopping and closed to traffic street in the district of Taksim known for preserving more free lifestyles compared to our parts of Istanbul.

 “Many friends are psychologically sick. They are now imprisoned at home. Is walking on the street or shopping a crime in a free world ? One day, they have fined two friends.. And the cops have written on the fine as describing the crime “men wearing female clothes.” After our Ramadan holiday is over (ending on Sep 23), we will file a criminal complaint to the Attorneys General (Prosecution Office) about both Capkin and the police officers who issued us fines.

They are threatening

One of the trannies who got a fine is a 51 year old Ebru who lives in Beyoglu. She is describing her experiences with this nickname because she is still scared :

 “One time I was in a hairdresser and they got me out and took to the police station. They fined me for disturbing the society as 35€ according to the Misdemeanor Law. Another time, I had bought meat and bread and was walking, they fined me again. At some occasions, they even fined me twice in a day. I did not sign some of the fines and signed some. They terrified me. They use violence and threaten to inform our families about our situation. Now we are afraid of getting out. We do not disturb the people, on the contrary, the police do.”

Çapkın and the ones like him do not want to see them. Do you think a happier and more humanly life is waiting for us when they remove those people from the streets and we are left alone as isolated from those colours of life ?

Aditya Bondyopadhyay
Advocate
(Regd. No. F-218/192 of 1997)
Bar Council of W.Bengal, India

Section 377 > Kamat,26 Arrested For Raping a Female dog <

Mumbai , Sep 24 A sessions court has rejected the bail application of a 26-year-old man, arrested for allegedly raping a female dog, after observing that the accused has committed cruelty against an animal.   Mahesh    Kamat was arrested on  August 30 after he was allegedly caught in a compromising position with a female dog at  Tardeo in central      Mumbai .     Kamat was booked under  Section 377 (unnatural sex)

of the IPC and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. In his bail application, the accused claimed that he had been falsely implicated and that the investigation in the case was complete." Since the victim in the alleged offence is an animal, the question of recording the statement of the said victim does not arise. The question of cruelty towards the animal also does not arise as the accused was not the owner of the dog," Kamat states in his bail plea.