{"id":252,"date":"2018-07-27T17:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T23:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/?page_id=252"},"modified":"2018-08-29T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T03:03:19","slug":"lgbtq-and-gender-minorities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/india\/lgbtq-and-gender-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ and Gender Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/03\/opinion\/cuba-same-sex-marriages.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;version=Moth-Visible&amp;moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-1&amp;module=inside-nyt-region&amp;region=inside-nyt-region&amp;WT.nav=inside-nyt-region\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-9.20.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-9.20.37-AM.png 653w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-9.20.37-AM-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a>In this article, Kai Schultz, interviews Ayesha Kapur about her experience fighting Section 377, a law that targets LGBTQ individuals, in India.\u00a0 Schultz notes, &#8220;gay and transgender Indians from across the country described the cost of living in a country that has forced them to be outlaws: shunning by parents, social isolation, few protections in the workplace, and a frightening vulnerability to both police abuse and sexual assault with limited legal recourse.&#8221;\u00a0 This type of behavior and reaction toward LGBTQ Indians is at least partly a consequence of British colonization, wherein the colonizers enforced their morality upon the colonized.\u00a0 &#8220;In the 1860s, the British introduced Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The law imposed a fine, 10 years\u2019 imprisonment or a life sentence on &#8216;whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature.'&#8221;\u00a0 Prior to this, the British were already in the process of colonizing Indian bodies, albeit in less outwardly visible ways.\u00a0 The Indian body became a site of abject immorality as the British gained more power over Indian people and control over their resources.<\/p>\n<p>One consideration in how transgender individuals are treated in India today is related to British colonial rule.\u00a0 Prior to colonization, Indian tribes across the continent had accepted a form of gender fluidity whereby a third gender,\u00a0 hijra, was understood as physical representation of various gender-shifting goddesses\/gods (i.e., Shiva\/Parvati).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/b1\/5d\/f6\/b15df6d3137325867ece100263998c2d.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for half man\/woman shiva\" width=\"238\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, however, third gender individuals face a great deal more challenges to their identities and ways of life.\u00a0 While some may experience acceptance at home, from family and friends, a majority experience government sanctioned and community enforced discrimination and violence.\u00a0 The traditional understanding of a third gender&#8217;s role in the world has been diminished with colonization and general conservativization of Indian society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Kai Schultz, interviews Ayesha Kapur about her experience fighting Section 377, a law that targets LGBTQ individuals, in India.\u00a0 Schultz notes, &#8220;gay and transgender Indians from across the country described the cost of living in a country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/india\/lgbtq-and-gender-minorities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":343,"parent":245,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-252","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/crossculturalgenderandsexualities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}