Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behaviour between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.
Personal Experience: Experience during internship at Mental Health Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala. Homosexuality is considered more like a taboo in India. In a society which expects heterosexual relationships which generally is coupled up with marriage in order for the need for reproduction and procreation, …show more content…
Several countries followed Netherlands and were found successful in giving its citizens their rights. The Indian population remained untouched even though there is several religious literatures which iterate the presence of same sex love in various forms. Various ancient texts like the Manu Smriti and Kamasutra refers to homosexuality as natural. The problem that India is facing is it over emphasis on the concept of reproduction and the utterly wrong belief or notion that sexual relationships or marriages exists only for the cause of reproductions. This is the misleading belief that made people look at homosexuality as something less natural. Also since sex wasn’t a topic which was widely and openly discussed because the traditional and conservative Indian culture considered it taboo, homosexuality also was never …show more content…
Some of them are:
1. Dunno Y.. Na Jaane Kyon (2010), which was screened in several international film festivals but disappeared from the multiplexes soon after its release.
2. Dostana (2008) was one of the breaks through movies which portrayed homosexuality in a movie under a huge banner. Close on the heels of fashion, this movie presented the big stars of Bollywood who pretends to be homosexuals.
3. Fashion (2008) again had mainstream Bollywood stars in the movie and portrayed a homosexual fashion designer who ends up in a marriage of convenience with a woman due to the various societal constraints and
Personal Experience: Experience during internship at Mental Health Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala. Homosexuality is considered more like a taboo in India. In a society which expects heterosexual relationships which generally is coupled up with marriage in order for the need for reproduction and procreation, …show more content…
Several countries followed Netherlands and were found successful in giving its citizens their rights. The Indian population remained untouched even though there is several religious literatures which iterate the presence of same sex love in various forms. Various ancient texts like the Manu Smriti and Kamasutra refers to homosexuality as natural. The problem that India is facing is it over emphasis on the concept of reproduction and the utterly wrong belief or notion that sexual relationships or marriages exists only for the cause of reproductions. This is the misleading belief that made people look at homosexuality as something less natural. Also since sex wasn’t a topic which was widely and openly discussed because the traditional and conservative Indian culture considered it taboo, homosexuality also was never …show more content…
Some of them are:
1. Dunno Y.. Na Jaane Kyon (2010), which was screened in several international film festivals but disappeared from the multiplexes soon after its release.
2. Dostana (2008) was one of the breaks through movies which portrayed homosexuality in a movie under a huge banner. Close on the heels of fashion, this movie presented the big stars of Bollywood who pretends to be homosexuals.
3. Fashion (2008) again had mainstream Bollywood stars in the movie and portrayed a homosexual fashion designer who ends up in a marriage of convenience with a woman due to the various societal constraints and