Namaste,
1.
Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc. (Vaishnava Perspective; please read carefully about how the Colonial British were
very brutal in suppressing homosexuality in India)
2. "Sexuality is rarely discussed openly in contemporary Hindu society, especially in modern India where homosexuality
was illegal until 2009, due to colonial British laws" (that were still in effect up till 2009).
From section 377 of the Indian Penal Code: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. This penal code reeks of Colonial British (Christianized) laws.
3. "Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire, which depicts a romantic relationship between two Hindu women, was informally banned for "religious insensitivity" after Hindu Nationalists attacked cinemas where it was being screened on the grounds that it denigrated Indian culture, not on the grounds of homophobia per se, a position shared and confirmed by feminist Madhu Kishwar. In addition, the Bharatiya (pro-Hindu) Janata Party who were in power in India at the time,
refused to ban it."
--->Entry on the movie "Fire", from IMDB (Internet Movie Database). Accessed on August 9, 2006.
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Naive Outpourings
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Furore over a film The movie was controversial not because of homosexual tendencies, but because of the director's mockery of the Holy Shrī Ramayana and the misrepresentation of Hindu culture due to the involvement of graphic pornography in one scene where a character is watching an adult film in the presence of an elderly woman
4. "A liberal view is presented by Mathematician Shakuntala Devi, in her 1977 book, The World of Homosexuals, in which she interviewed Srinivasa Raghavachariar, head priest of the Srirangam temple. He said that same-sex lovers must have been cross-sex lovers in a former life. The sex may change but the soul retains its attachments, hence the love impels these souls towards one another."
"In 2002, Ruth Vanita (writer/reporter for GALVA The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc.) interviewed a Shaiva priest who performed the marriage of two women; having studied Hindu scriptures, he had concluded,
Marriage is a union of spirits, and the spirit is not male or female (p. 147)."
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Marriage Equality and Hinduism Representing my fellow white Hindu dharmic bhaginī (Sk. for sister) with her deeply researched analysis.......Oh, :yes:.
5. Again, representing my white Hindu dharmic bhaginī (Sk. for sister):
"To expand further, in Hinduism there is a belief of the third gender. This is a category outside male and female, it is one which includes a wide range of people with mixed male and female natures such as transgender, homosexuals, transsexuals, bisexuals and so on. Such persons are not considered fully male or female in Hindu tradition but being combinations of both. They are mentioned as third sex by nature and are not expected to behave like ordinary men and women. They often keep their own societies or quarters, perform specific occupations (such as masseurs, hairdressers, flower-seller, domestic servants, etc.) and are generally attributed with a semi-divine status."
--->Posted from:
Marriage Equality and Hinduism;
--->but, derived from:
Asia and Hinduism makes hallmark with first same-sex marriage | Spirituality Ireland Blog.
6. "(Christian)
Colonialism subsequently imposed this prejudice on a number of non-western societies which did not previously have this sort of persecution. Other major world religions,
particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shinto,
don't condemn homosexuals in their sacred texts, let alone mention the subject except in passing."
"In contemporary India LGBT people face discrimination and marginalization. This results from cultural attitudes imposed by the British during their long occupation of India. There is no condemnation of homosexuality in the ancient Hindu texts, and no bias against LGBT people is evident up to the 19th century.
In a few Hindu lawbooks, same-gender sexuality is described as producing a state of impurity, but it can be expunged by a ritual bath.
The ancient Hindu attitude was that sexuality should be fully integrated into the fabric of life, and nothing to be ashamed of. For instance, in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV:4, there is a passage about sex magic which was so explicit that Max Müller (
a colonial pawn and imperialist/racialist) felt compelled to translate it into Latin." (
Why? Because he meant to pervert the text to meet his Christian Imperialistic guidelines - a traitor to scholarly academia and honest Indology)
"Homosexuality is discussed frankly and without condemnation in the ancient Hindu sexual treatises. In the Kama Sutra, in Chapter VI, lesbianism in harems is described, and in Chapter IX, male and female homosexuality in the context of a discussion of oral sex. To quote the Kama Sutra, Chapter IX: '...in all things connected with love, everybody should act according to the custom of his country and his own inclination.'
There are many accounts of beings who transformed their gender by supernatural means in the ancient Hindu epics and Puranas. One prominent example occurs in the Mahabharata. A transgender person, Sikhandin, plays a pivotal role in that ancient Hindu epic. In book 5, Chapter 191-5, the origin of Sikhandin is related. Sikhandin was born as the daughter of King Drupada of the Panchalas, who had previously been childless. Druapada begged the God Mahadeva, to give him a son. He told him that 'Thou shalt have a child who will be a female and male. Desist, O king, it will not be otherwise.'"
--->from my peeps at Sacred Texts, always workin' miracles yah feel me?
LGBT Texts
How you like them apples, sistah? :grill:
Regards,
Mitra-Varuna
जय श्री कृष्ण