India decriminalizes homosexual sex

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The New Delhi High Court struck down the law that criminalized consensual homosexual sex today, in a move that will radically change life for millions of gay, lesbian and transgender Indians and represents a huge shift for gay rights in the developing world.

The Globe and Mail: India decriminalizes homosexual sex

The usual suspects issued the usual hysterical rebuttals.

 

[Monazwx]

Wow, I don't believe it. India really is progressing in every way.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There's no money to be made from fag bashing now that the world is walking hand-in-hand down the Hershey Highway towards the Great Rainbow at the end.

There was good money to be made when fags were in the closet. But no more.
Hell! Homosexuality is now a required credit for graduation from most high schools.

The real crimes today are smoking a cigarette and not wearing a seatbelt. The new seatbelt law became effective yesterday and the deputies here grabbed 200 people at $100 a pop. Fags were never this lucrative.

Fags have passed into criminal history like pornographers.

 

[ms.read]

jbj , just because they kicked you out of the faghag club, don't whine about it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I've been kicked out of places you wouldnt be allowed in.

 

[matriarch]

Great news for India and her people. Welcome to the 21st Century.

 

[wafflemtl]

1 down, 79 to go

 

[TE999]

Wow!! India?? I'm in a state of shock! Bollywood won't even show kissing in it's multitudinous films.

With a democratic government, a booming economy, advances in medicine and electronics, developing the worlds cheapest car, acceptance of sexual orientation and nukes they're on their way superpower status.

India: It's not just tech support anymore.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Wow!! India?? I'm in a state of shock! Bollywood won't even show kissing in it's multitudinous films.

With a democratic government, a booming economy, advances in medicine and electronics, developing the worlds cheapest car, acceptance of sexual orientation and nukes they're on their way superpower status.

India: It's not just tech support anymore.

Uh, no, Tom. Check you homework, India is making progress but still has decades to go. It's still the most corrupt democracy on the planet and has the greatest percentage of its people in abject poverty. Only one corner of India is booming, however once they get that kleptocratic bureaucracy under control, (and the press is hot on their tails) and begin to spread the wealth out into the countryside that place will take off like a giant South Korea. It will be amazing. Of course, that will reduce the Indian immigration into the U.S. and I will miss having little Patels and such something fierce. Great little kids, my Indian students.

 

[TE999]

Uh, no, Tom. Check you homework, India is making progress but still has decades to go. It's still the most corrupt democracy on the planet and has the greatest percentage of its people in abject poverty. Only one corner of India is booming, however once they get that kleptocratic bureaucracy under control, (and the press is hot on their tails) and begin to spread the wealth out into the countryside that place will take off like a giant South Korea. It will be amazing. Of course, that will reduce the Indian immigration into the U.S. and I will miss having little Patels and such something fierce. Great little kids, my Indian students.

Detail, details! They're on their way, neretheless. That kleptocratic bureaucracy is a hangover from when they were a British colony with a generous dollop of good ol' baksheesh thrown in...it's like our own government bureaucrats except India's speak English mo'betta than ours.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

. . . it's like our own government bureaucrats except India's speak English mo'betta than ours.

Indian accents are such fun, except when you want clear tech support. I love shopping on Pioneer Blvd. Unfortunately, the kids speak perfect Kal-Forni.

 

[TE999]

Indian accents are such fun, except when you want clear tech support. I love shopping on Pioneer Blvd. Unfortunately, the kids speak perfect Kal-Forni.

It's incredible how the kids pick up not only the language, but the local patois as well. One generation speaks and thinks old country...the next totally immersed in American language and culture. They don't need everything printed in their native tongue either.

 

[ms.read]

I've been kicked out of places you wouldnt be allowed in.

those must be the really boring places I prefer a little adventure in my life thank you.

 

[Huckleman2000]

It's incredible how the kids pick up not only the language, but the local patois as well. One generation speaks and thinks old country...the next totally immersed in American language and culture. They don't need everything printed in their native tongue either.

You mean, like those filthy Mexicans or Puerto Ricans?

 

[ms.read]

nah i think its the canucks who have invaded our "north country" lol gotta love'm. they always take our waffles. I wonder if waffles are outlawed in canada.in the summer time, nobody ever has waffles@ t the grocery store. and the french are always asking for smoked meat. SMOKED Meat. so my coworker handed the poor fella a steak and a lit cigarrette.

 

[slyc_willie]

It's incredible how the kids pick up not only the language, but the local patois as well. One generation speaks and thinks old country...the next totally immersed in American language and culture. They don't need everything printed in their native tongue either.

Funny little story . . . .

Down the street from my apartment is a little convenience store unofficially referred to as "Habib-Mart." I didn't give it that name, so don't bash me just yet.

The first time I went into the store, I passed an elderly black man on his way out, cursing and jabbering about something. I heard him mutter something like, "I ain't never coming back to this fuckin' place" before he stomped down the street.

Inside were three men of obvious Indian heritage. We have a pretty sizable Indian population in this part of San Antonio, mainly due to the local USAA hub. I figure a good third of the twenty thousand or so employees of the place are Indian. Anyway, Indian men and women are not strangers to me.

They were laughing their asses off when I went in. There were two close to my age and one in his early twenties who, by his dress and demeanor, triggered my Gaydar. One of the older men turned to me as I stepped in and said in his indelible accent and with arms thrown wide, "Welcome to Habib-mart!" This resulted in a new round of raucous laughter.

They explained that the elderly black man had been upset about the prices in the store, claiming they were jacked up (they aren't -- I find them comparable and in most cases lower than any corporate corner store) and said he wasn't going to patronize "no fucking Habib-mart." The three Indians found that uproariously funny.

In the past year, I've learned that the place is run and managed by four brothers, three of whom moved here about four years ago. They took over the store from the original owner, a Mexican who had been deported back across the border. The fourth -- the youngest -- moved here a year after that, and has since become more comfortable about his homosexuality. The oldest brother, who goes by the name "Raji," doesn't approve of youngest brother "Nash's" sexual preferences, but he at least accepts them.

If it comes up, next time I see Nash -- who's enrolled at UTSA and occasionally asks me questions about various topics -- I may ask how he feels about this new development in his home country.

Along the lines of Tom's statement, I find it both funny and strange how some of the brothers have adapted to some of the various American cultures. When I hear Nash use terms like 'homie' and 'wassup,' and start a sentence with 'yo,' I do a sort of double-take.

Similarly, a girl I work with at the restaurant, Navi -- like many Indians, she's invented a shorter, more easily remembered version of her name; her given name is something like twenty characters long -- has become fully immersed in American pop culture. While her mother (who also works part-time at the restaurant) is reserved and quiet, never speaking unless spoken to, Navi is outgoing and energetic. She even wears low-rider jeans and tank tops on her days off! *gasp*