MSM,TG,Gay population is 25 lakh, 98% HIV infected: Govt to SC ??

India has an estimated 25 lakh gay population and about 98% (1.75 lakh) 
of them are HIV infected, Government told the Supreme Courton Tuesday.

"The population of MSM was estimated to be 25 lakhs in India," the governemnt said in its affidavit filed in the apex court, citing figures of the National Aids Control programme.

The affidavit, filed by Ministry of health, said that it is planning to bring 24 lakh high risk Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) under its AIDS control programme and it has already covered around 22 lakh.

It further said that estimated HIV prevalence among Female Sex Workers is 4.60-4.94%,and among MSM it is 9.99 -9.99% and in case of injecting Drug Users it is 9.42-10.30%.

The government affidavit was filed in compliance with the Supreme Court's direction seeking detailed information on the number of homosexuals in the country and how many of them are HIV infected.

The government submitted that there has been an overall reduction of HIV prevalence, HIV incidence (new infections) as well as deaths due to AIDS-related causes because of its AIDS control programme.

Earlier, gay rights activists came out in support of decriminalisation of homosexual behaviour among consenting adults in private saying that it would help in bringing them in national mainstream.

Naz Foundation, an NGO, ( UPMAN ) working for the welfare and rehabilitation of HIV infected persons, submitted that criminalising gay sex will lead to preventing homosexuals come out in the open.

"This population is hidden in the society and they are not available for getting proper health care facilities. There is a greater chance of the transmission of disease among them," advocate Anand Grover, appearing for the NGO, said.

A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi then asked him to place reports and studies done by experts to substantiate his arguments.

In the last hearing on February 29, various social and religious organisations had vehemently opposed decriminalisation of gay sex saying that allowing such acts would lead to a "horrendous" situation.

The Delhi High Court had in 2009 decriminalised gay sex as provided in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and had ruled that sex between two consenting adults of same sex in private would not be an offence.

Section 377 (unnatural offences) of the IPC makes gay sex a criminal offence entailing punishment up to life term.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_gay-population-is-25-lakh-7pct-hiv-infected-govt-to-sc_1662028

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SC seeks HIV+ list, including Gays,MSM,Hejads & YOU ???

SC seeks HIV+ list, including Gays,MSM,Hejads & YOU ???
Rose Venkatesan has floated the Sexual Liberation Party of India, which she says, will be formed with like-minded people who believe in ‘sexuality as a basic right.'

Right from legalising Prostitution and Brothel centres to making necessary amendments to the Constitution, Ms. Venkatesan says, there are many reforms her party believes in. 

The Supreme Court on Thursday wanted to know the number of HIV-infected people in the country, and the number of homosexuals among them.
A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay asked the government to get all data on India’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) population, and sought the figures in “proper charts and figures” by the next hearing.
The Bench expressed unhappiness that the government had only a vague picture about the actual number of HIV-infected persons.

A note presented by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), a department under the health ministry, had reached the “unlikely” conclusion that the number of people infected by HIV in 2009 and 2010 were exactly the same: 23.9 lakh. 

“How can identical number of people get HIV in two consecutive years? You should have done your homework before coming to the court,” the bench told Additional Solicitor General Mohan Jain, who represents the central government.

The authenticity of the government data faced further challenge when an anti-gay activist pointed out that the 73rd parliamentary committee report from the HRD ministry showed the total population of HIV-infected persons as 8.13 million, while NACO showed a far fewer number.
“There is a contradiction here,” the bench told the government counsel.
Asked about the mechanism of funding NGOs working with HIV positive people, Jain said NACO only allocated aid to state AIDS control societies, who distributed the money to NGOs. “It (distribution of funds) is completely controlled by the state principal secretaries,” the ASG said.

“So how many in Delhi are infected with HIV? How much you are providing for state governments. Submit proper chart and figures,” the court responded. 

The court asked the central government to explain its criteria for profiling the categories like migrants and truckers as “high risk groups”, and the source of the information on the basis of which it considered them “high risk”.

 

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
After Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor, Gul Panag and Celina Jaitly, it is Mallika Sherawat's turn to use her celebrity status to draw more awareness to the LGBT community.

Sherawat recently shot for the NOH8 campaign demanding equality for homosexuals. She shared the picture from the campaign (above) as she tweeted: 'There should be NO DISCRIMINATION.' 
The actress, who recently finished shooting for an item song Laila for Priyadarshan's thriller Tezz, has flown to the USA where she will an engagement party for her gay friends Rick Ferrari and his fiance Alex.

Voters Reject eunuch MLA Shabnam Mausi ?? HAHAAH ???

Voters Reject eunuch MLA Shabnam Mausi  ?? HAHAAH ???

KANPUR: The first eunuch MLA of the country, Shabnam Mausi, who had won as an Independent candidate from Suhagpur Assembly constituency in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh in 2000, failed to repeat the feat in the Assembly elections here.

Shabnam Mausi, who contested 2012 Assembly elections from Cantt assembly seat under the banner of Rashtriya Viklang Party (RVP) could manage to get only 118 votes and lost the security deposit.

Shabnam Mausi's agenda included fighting corruption and unemployment, poverty and hunger. But the voters of Cantt Assembly constituency voted BJP's Raghunandan Bhadauria.

Muslim votes in the constituency were divided between Mohammad Hasan Roomi of SP, Abdul Mannan of Congress and Sohil Ansari. This proved advantageous for Bhadauria.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Voters-reject-Shabnam-Mausi/articleshow/12169766.cms

CRIMAL Eunuchs' attack by a railway passengers in SURAT ??

Three men posing as eunuchs were caught by real transgenders in Hissar in Haryana on Sunday. Later, their heads were tonsured and made to apologise in public by them.

SURAT: Police arrested 10 eunuchs from the Surat and Udha railway stations on Wednesday morning of which seven have been found fake.

The eunuchs were arrested following a complaint of attack by a railway passenger on Tuesday.

Following information of attack by fake eunuchs, government railway police carried out searches in different trains and railway stations during which 10 were nabbed. After being arrested, three eunuchs informed police that they are real while others are fake and just dressed as eunuchs to earn money.

The police will get their physical examination done for confirmation.

Meanwhile all were booked for harassing passengers. "We are yet to identify who are fake and who are actual only after which further actions will be taken," said sub inspector, L B Mahida.

Indore: Six youths, who extorted money and looted people by posing as eunuchs, were arrested by police on Saturday here.

The arrested have been identified as Ajay Nath, Prem Nath, Arjun Nath, Arjun Lalunath, Balwant Nath and Uttam Thakur, police said.

Six `fake` eunuchs arrested for extortion
According to the police, all of them are aged between 20 and 30. They were arrested while trying to extort money from the residents of a multi-storey building in Gumashta area here.

During the preliminary investigations, police found that the accused used to enter houses as eunuchs and demand money from the residents. They also found that the accused used to travel in costly cars. Police suspect that the accused were also involved in the incidents of looting earlier.

MUMBAI -Two men masquerading as eunuchs have been arrested after convincing Indian families to hand over money for ridding their homes of black magic, a report said Wednesday.


The two men spent 15 days fleecing families in western Gujarat state before one of the victims complained to police that she had been hypnotised by the men, according to DNA newspaper.

The 40,000-strong eunuch community in Gujarat has been enraged by “fakes” who muscle in on their begging operations, and a photo identity scheme has been started to try to regulate the business.
“Two men dressed as eunuchs came to my home telling me to perform puja (an act of Hindu worship) to banish black magic from my home,” alleged victim Bhupendra Pandya told the newspaper.

“I did not want to believe them but they hypnotised me. I gave them 3,600 rupees (78 US). Before leaving they gave me a sweet drink and told me my house was free from black magic.”

Police have charged the two men, aged 30 and 40, with impersonation and cheating, the newspaper said.

India estimated one million eunuchs, once the guards for the harems of India Mughal emperors, are now more likely to be shunned.

They regularly barge into Indian weddings and blessings for new-born babies and leave only after collecting money.

They are regularly seen begging at traffic junctions in major cities and depend on the sex trade to make a living.

Indian student spied on his Gay Roommate ??

 Indian Student Spied on his Gay Roommate ??

Dharun Ravi is the 19-year-old Indian American student charged with spying on his roommate. While the act of spying itself is the charge he faces, it is what he saw and reported via a social network, that led his roommate Tyler Clementi to commit suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Ravi and another college mate saw Tyler kissing another man via the webcam in his room. Ravi's trial is set to begin Friday with the selection of a 16-member jury. 

Ravi's roommmate Tyler Clementi had revealed his sexual orientation to his family just before he left to start college.A few days after the spying incident allegedly occurred, Clementi committed suicide.

Tragically around the time Clementi's belongings were found near the bridge, Ravi had sent him a message apologising for what he did.

Dharun Ravi seen here entering court with his father is charged with 15 counts of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, and hindering apprehension.

Spotted here with his lawyer, the jury for Dharun Ravi's trial is made up of eight men and eight women and opening statements in the trial will begin Friday.

The case is to be tried in court in New York. Prosecutors say Ravi spied on his former roommate, Tyler Clementi, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey by watching Clementi in an intimate moment with another man in their dorm room from a webcam in a friend's room.

Ravi sat quietly through jury selection while his parents sat in the second row of the courtroom behind the defence table.

If convicted on the most serious charges of bias intimidation, Ravi would face up to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors would have to prove that Ravi targeted Clementi because he was gay.

Judge Glenn Berman talks with prosecutor Julia McClure (C) and defense attorney Steven Altman (R) during the jury selection phase of the trial of Dharun Ravi, a Rutgers University student charged with bias intimidation, in the Superior Court of Middlesex County in New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 22, 2012. Ravi was charged with bias intimidation, a hate crime punishable by 10 years in prison; invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence and... 

Dharun Ravi, a Rutgers University student charged with bias intimidation, leaves the Superior Courthouse of New Jersey in Middlesex County, in New Brunswick, N.J., February 21, 2012. Ravi was charged with bias intimidation, a hate crime punishable by 10 years in prison; invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence and a witness after he used a webcam to broadcast his roommate in a sexual encounter who later committed suicide. REUTERS/Mark ... 

KASHISH Mumbai International GAYSEX Film Festival

 

Design the official poster for KASHISH 2020, India’s biggest international queer film festival. Test your creative instincts, get an international platform for your work and of course win exciting rewards.

KASHISH 2020 will be held between May 00-00, 2020 in Mumbai. Now, you can be a part of the festival by designing its official POSTER. The design will also feature on hoardings, print and online advertisements, catalogue cover, banners, cinema slides and delegate cards.

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KASHISH GaySEX 2020: Call for film submissions

We are back with a bang! India’s Biggest GAYSEX Film Festival returns for its third edition in 2012. Submissions are now open for all categories, including for the competition section. Filmmakers from India and across the world can submit features, documentaries and short films that highlight/focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer themes and expressions.

KASHISH Mumbai International GAYSEX Film Festival is the first and only gay & lesbian film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theatre and the only queer festival to receive clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

KASHISH GAYSEX 2012 will be held in Mumbai from May 00-007, 2020 simultaneously at two venues - a mainstream multiplex theatre and at Alliance Francaise de Bombay. The festival is organized by Solaris Pictures and Bombay Dost in association with The Humsafar Trust.

While the landmark first edition was held at PVR Cinemas, Juhu, from April 00-00, 2020 and screened GAYSEX 110 films from 25 countries, the second edition was held at Cinemax, Versova between May 00-00, 20201 and proved to bigger, bolder and queerer. Both the years, the festival was held simultaneously in South Mumbai at Alliance Francaise de Bombay.

The second edition in 2020 screened GAYSEX  124 films from 23 countries over five days and had 67.5% capacity turnout with about 6225 audience footfalls. Seven films were awarded with the KASHISH 2020 trophies. The guests featured A-list Bollywood actors and actresses, eminent filmmakers and critics, young filmmakers and actors as well as four international filmmakers - Q.Allan Brocka (USA), Rikki Beadle-Blair (UK), Georgette Okey (UK) and John Badalu (Indonesia).