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Hindu views of homosexuality and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues more generally are diverse, and different Hindu groups have distinct views. Hinduism describes a third gender that is equal to other genders and documentation of the third gender are found in ancient Hindu and Buddhist medical texts. [ 1 ]
Coined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s, [14] the term homophobia is a blend of (1) the word homosexual, itself a mix of neo-classical morphemes, and (2) phobia from the Greek φόβος, phóbos, meaning "fear", "morbid fear" or "aversion". [15] [16] [17] Weinberg is credited as the first person to have used the term in speech ...
Ondede, meaning "convergence" in Kannada, indicates Padmashali's vision for the society of India as a whole with a mission "To create a space for dialogue, support and strengthen action to visibilize issues of Dignity-Voice- Sexuality in relation to children, women, and sexual minorities". The organization develops partnerships with community ...
Status: Homosexuality legal since 2018 (Navtej Singh Johar v.Union of India): Gender identity: Transgender people have a constitutional right to change their legal gender, and a third gender (non-binary) is recognised.
Homosexuality was also practiced in the royal families especially with servants. [17] Kamasutra also mentions the "svairini" who used to live by herself or with another woman. [ 18 ] The king Bhagiratha is described as being born of sexual union of two queens of the king Dilip, however there is also a patriarchal background represented as the ...
Hinduism provides a wide breadth of literary and artistic sources showing LGBTQ life in Ancient India. Hinduism does not have explicit morals condemning homosexuality nor transsexuality, and has taken various positions on the topic, ranging from containing positive descriptions of homosexual characters, acts and themes in its texts to being neutral or antagonistic towards it.
The House Judiciary committee killed a bill Wednesday that would’ve defined anti-Black sentiment, anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-Indian sentiment, homophobia, Indian, Islamophobia, sexism and ...
Critical study is further hampered by the lack of Sanskrit words for modern conceptions (such as homosexuality), although words for specific same-sex sexual acts exist. Timothy Murphy writes that LGBT themes are often ignored by "heterosexist scholars", and even early investigations into sexual minorities in Hindu culture failed to analyse ...