From Past to Present: Tracing the Status of the LGBTQ Community in the Indian Society
Keywords:
Homosexuality, Ancient India, Sexual Morality, LGBTQAbstract
The vision behind writing this paper is to bust the superstitious beliefs and stigma that veils the status of the LGBTQ community in India. Today, the LGBTQ+ community all over the world is struggling for recognition and with the legal battle for same-sex marriage going on in India, it is important to realize the need for their rights and acceptance. The paper focuses on the Indian society and traces the status, acceptance, rights and conditions of the third gender community through ancient India till date. While we sift through history, a gradual downfall in the condition of the third genders is witnessed. Present-day India views the LGBTQ+ community as an abomination and there has not been any significant step towards their upliftment until homosexuality was decriminalized in 2017. There is still a long road ahead of complete upliftment of this community but the first step ahead is with destigmatizing.
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