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But while most people in the community lean Left politically, he supports the right-wing government of the Bharatiya Janata Party despite its seeming neglect of queer rights. “I am talking about a consistent pattern and not anecdotal evidence,” he clarified. Then, taking a pause, he requested me to do a fact-check since he was not sure. The aim: try to understand how the powerless and the voiceless have fared under a decade of the Modi government.
When he was a young child, Ankit Bhuptani found himself fascinated by Shaktimaan, a superhero TV series that aired on Doordarshan on Sunday afternoons.
In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center across 34 countries between May 13 and October 2, 2019, only 37 per cent of respondents from India said that homosexuality should be accepted by society. There was a “compelling interest” for the society and the state to limit recognition to heterosexual marriages only.
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However, in an affidavit filed before the apex court, the Union government has opposed same-sex marriage and said that judicial interference would cause “complete havoc with the delicate balance of personal laws”.
“I see a way of collaborating with the government. Check the latest TV appearances of Modi with us!
Most Modi Exclusive Videos. “There are multiple factors which enable my voting decisions. He sees the Citizenship Amendment Act as “a civilisational duty”, although it fast-tracks naturalisation only for non-Muslims from neighbouring Muslim-majority nations.
I have never experienced this in Dombivli. “They never told me they’ll acknowledge queer rights only when they lost power like the Congress did, which had 70 years of rule in India to decriminalise homosexuality, which they never did.”
What draws Bhuptani to vote for Modi is the “Gujarat model of development”, the belief that Gujarat’s growth is owed to Modi’s policies, including the incentives he offered as chief minister to corporations to lure them to the state.
Bhuptani’s hometown is Rajkot in Gujarat, which he visits frequently.
“They see people as those who are with us and those who are against us. In Asia, Taiwan was the first country to recognise such unions in 2019.
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Aditya Mohan Wig
Published On:
Mar 15, 2023
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“When I see Modi, I see a father who is loving, caring and protective, who will go to any lengths to protect his child,” he noted. The hearing will be live-streamed in public interest. His father worked in a steel and iron factory while his mother was a homemaker.
“I realised then that being gay was not something to be proud of – it was something that people laugh about,” said the 32-year-old.
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Does Modi Smoke? “They only did what they promised to do,” he said. “And if this truth about me was revealed to the world, I would become a laughing stock and my parents too would be laughed at.”
One evening, when his mother went to the bazaar, Bhuptani, then 17, attempted suicide and failed.
Bhuptani discovered the queer community in 2009, when he first attended the Mumbai pride parade.
I have been invited to multiple RSS events as an out and proud gay man, and I see that there is space for dialogue.”
According to Bhuptani, dominant left-wing and queer politics in India sees the world in binaries, which is not helpful for the queer movement. “When you generalise the political ideology of a group it will have extreme outcomes for the group in terms of societal acceptance,” he said.