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30 Mins: Gay and Indian | Coming out | Is it criminal?
Published on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 21:05, Updated on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 23:29 in Lifestyle section
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Today, Ajay is in the process of getting a sex reassignment surgery and becoming a man complete with male sex organs, determined to be a good father to little Preeti.
“I would tell God, you should have made me a man, why did you make me a woman? But I know I am doing the right thing. Life is difficult but I want to make some thing of my life,” says Ajay.
Vikram, too, was born Shalu Chauhan, and changed his name after he had his breasts removed. He says he knew from his school days, that he was attracted to women
“I met this girl in class V who I liked. I would wish she would just sit with me. I would play with her, follow her around, made greeting cards for her but never proposed to her,” he says.
At 24, Vikram is like any other young man, complaining how women are difficult to please. Now that he looks like a man - it's become easier to get women's attention. Today, he says, he is almost ashamed to have been born a woman.
“I have always liked girls. It never bothered me. What bothered me was my body. Very few girls are understanding. They will not want their boyfriend to be a woman. They want their boyfriend to be a man. In these things, India is still backward,” he says.
From loving women, to wanting to be a man, to get acceptance for this love - it's a complex world for these women. Yet, they all say this is far more liberating than being forced into behaving a heterosexual where they feel neither longing nor love for the opposite sex.
Being accepted for who they are is still a long way off. But the journey has begun.
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This is rather debating subject.
To be or not to be kinda of discussion.
There are talks of
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I am not against Gay or Lesbian relationship. But we have to accept it as an unnatural thing.
Its
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I am afraid this 30Mins documentary did not tell me anything I did not already know, except the reporter Ms
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