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Yes we are, gays proud in New Delhi
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by Ahmar Mustikhan | June 28, 2009 at 07:33 pm
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India's gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual folks take to the streets of capital New Delhi to repeal the British colonial black law against sodomy, called Indian Penal Code 377.
The crowd estimated at hundreds carried many rainbow flags.
The world's largest democracy is one of the few Asian countries where homosexuality is becoming publicly visible.
In many traditional societies being gay is considered taboo though male-to-male sex is discreetly practiced.
In arch-rival Pakistan, the situation is quite different from India. There are just a handful of people from Pakistan in the United States who have affirmatively come out as gays: poet Ifti Nasim, writer Hasan Mujtaba, and activists Faisal Alam and Surina Khan.
This writer has received many hate emails.
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at 20:44 on June 28th, 2009
Thanks for this, Ahmar. Would you mind adding the tag "sexuality" to this story so it will also appear on NowPublic Health/Human Sexuality channel. Thanks!
at 22:57 on June 28th, 2009
the use of "proud to be homo" in your headline is unsuitable for a post on NP!
at 23:23 on June 28th, 2009
Who said that?
at 00:17 on June 29th, 2009
I did! thank you for changing the title which seemed "homophobic!"
at 23:38 on June 28th, 2009
Hope you like the new headline?
at 23:44 on June 28th, 2009
Thank you for changing your title, adding the tag, and for this story, Ahmar!:)
at 00:52 on June 29th, 2009
Welcome. I even use the six-letter "f" word in an affirmative fashion; but that's just me:)
at 08:59 on June 29th, 2009
Different strokes, for different folks, Ahmar:)! Thanks for sharing!
at 09:14 on June 29th, 2009
I like your new title better too. No matter what the title thanks for the article.