"It's interesting that the law brought over by the colonisers said that was an 'unnatural act', and those are the same words that my dad used," says Lokesh. Homosexual acts were rendered a criminal offence until 2018, when the law was overturned.ĭespite the legal judgment, seen as a victory for India's LGBTQIA+ community, Lokesh believes the legacy of the laws live on. "Anything that deviated from the norm on ideas about the family, sexuality male and female behaviour was seen as deviant."Īnti-sodomy laws were imposed by British officials in India from 1861. " couldn't go around the whole place, stamping out the hijras and forcing them to stop doing what they were doing, but what they did was create a kind of social construct," she explains. According to Devleena Ghosh, a professor in social and political sciences at the University of Technology, India's colonisation by Britain was a significant contributor.
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