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'I can make you straight in three months': Inside India's gay conversion industry
Widely discredited around the world, conversion therapy - which aims to change someone's sexual orientation - is still legal in India but the practice of it by doctors is banned.
Above a second-hand car shop on a bustling Delhi street, sits the office of the Indian capital's self-proclaimed "best sexologist".
Dr Shriyans Jain is smartly dressed in a crisp pale shirt and inky waistcoat with a jet black moustache adorning his upper lip. His dense, dark hair is swept across his forehead. I'm going undercover to explore claims he suggestions gay and sapphic people a heal for their sexuality.
He is trained in modern medicine (MBBS qualified) but also practises ayurvedic medicine (a traditional type of Indian medical system). He's also registered with the Delhi Medical Council. His website proudly trumpets his credentials, and lists several of the conditions he treats with herbal medicine. They include premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction and even infertility. But the service he offers gay and lesbian patients doesn't appear to be advertised.
Widely discredited around the world, conv
LGBT in India: What it's like six months after gay sex was decriminalised
Newsbeat reporter in Delhi, India
Up until six months ago, 20-year-old Tish felt like a criminal.
He faced long-term prison time in India because he was an out and confident gay man, but then his life changed.
Gay sex was decriminalised by the Indian Supreme Court on 6 September 2018.
It overturned a 2013 judgement that upheld a 157-year-old statute dating back to British rule.
There were celebrations across India when the ruling came through but Tish was crying - because he'd just split up with his boyfriend.
"But then I remembered I was no longer a criminal," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat, laughing.
"I always felt caged and restricted within my soul."
Tish says more cafes and bars in Delhi have develop LGBT-friendly by putting up rainbow flags - but that doesn't necessarily signify the public have changed their attitudes.
"India should produce a space where I'd actually be able to make my family grasp that it's normal," he explains.
He says he hopes eventually he'll not always feel &quo
It's a balmy night on the outskirts of Kolkata, and Sudipta Das is standing in a crowded plaza wearing a jet sweater and a rakish scarf. Earlier this evening, Das, 20, told his mother that he's studying at his aunt's property. But instead, he has snuck out to encounter up with friends.
Like most young Indians, Das loves Lady Gaga and Harry Potter, dreams of attending college abroad and can name-drop Manhattan landmarks, which he knows from watching Sex and the City. Yet Das—a tall modern man with soft features—is living a secret being that most Indians wouldn't consider "normal."
Wanting to obtain away from the crowds, he leads me down a dim alleyway until we arrive at a deserted train yard. A group of men in their 20s stroll by and Das eyes them, then quickly looks away. Even here he doesn't feel safe. A coach whistles in the distance, and soon it's rumbling down the tracks. "It's OK," Das says as the men pass. "They won't know what we're talking about."
Most of his family doesn't know what we're talking about either. Like many men and women in India, Das is gay and hiding it, fearing rejection, discrimination and violence. Once, several years ago, Das tried to come o
The Slow Evolution of Lgbtq+ Culture in India
Societal standards, the caste system, arranged marriages, the high probability of being disinherited for coming out — in India, everything runs counter to gay liberation.
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I am at the Marriott on Beach in Mumbai, India. Bobby, a gaybombay.org activist (I know only his first name), has invited me to a gay soirée in one of the private clubs: the basement of a huge palace. It is almost midnight, and I find myself in the sort of extravagant and grandiose party Indians specialize in. India is not a “cool” country; it is a “hot” country (as the writer Salman Rushdie puts it). Young women are wrapped in improbable dresses with large multicolored scarves; young men wear turbans or chic HSBC bank officer’s suits. There are huge cakes with whipped cream, served at will, and everyone seems to flirt and kiss each other. The proportion of gays seems significant, but the place is mixed, open, always discreet, and codes are respected, for good measure. “Here it is not a soirée, it’s a partyyyy” Bandana Tewari tells me, stressing the y. She is the flamboyant head of th
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party came under heat Tuesday after a minister from one of its declare governments announced plans to make gays "normal" in the Goa resort region. Ramesh Tawadkar, from Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the Goa mention government was planning to open centres to treat homosexuals in the region, whose long sandy beaches and laid-back lifestyle have drawn-out been a haven for tourists. "We will make them normal. We will have centres for them, like Alcoholics Anonymous centres," sports and youth affairs minister Tawadkar told reporters on Monday, adding that the government would "train them and donate them medicines too". Gay rights groups branded the comments offensive and illiterate, while the main opposition Congress party slammed the minister's attitude as shameless. "We should not respond to this kind of stupidity," said Anjali Gopalan, founder of Naz Foundation, which first launched a case to decriminalise lgbtq+ sex in India. "It's better to ignore such things coming from the BJP. Their regressive attitude is not surprising," Gopalan told AFP, calling the minister an