Dinesh Soni’s Blog

Before you start reading, let me clarify I’m not homosexual. I’m writing this post just cause a recent movie provoked me to think about this. After my previous post on homosexuality, many people had mistaken me as being homosexual.

In India, being homosexual is considered as a highly disgraceful act. The homosexual person is considered to be someone out and away part of *normal* society. I don’t understand why doesn’t the world accept them as people with own preferences?

I find the route deeply engrossed in our education system. Firstly we lack sex education in our education system. I had previously written a post about need of speaking about sex. The post had landed me in some troubles but nevertheless, I still support the need of sex education in schooling. And the education has to start with frankness and clarity. There should be no nicknames for the body parts. If eye is eye and ear is ear, a penis is penis and vegina is vegina.

Second reason for the disgraceful look is bollywood. Bollywood has never shown homosexuality as a normal part in movies. Its always considered as yet another reason for creating laughter. Thats one reason people fear to accept their homosexuality openly. They always think that their being homosexual will be a reason of comedy and mockery among the friends.

Many in India are still confused about the sexuality. They have attraction towards other boys but deep inside, they are complete straight. The attraction comes as a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with their sexuality. This commonly happens with the guys who grow up playing with sisters at home. They have always seen and interacted with a girl and so pick up few things from her. However, this rarely affects their sexuality but their behavior at times appear like being homosexual. We need to keep this in mind before stereotyping or terming anyone as homosexual.