I Am Gay. So What?

“… but I don’t have much knowledge. I had locked up myself in a room for two years so you can estimate what my confidence is upto. I feel so much depressed most of the time. I am always afraid to socialize with people as they mock me for my girly side.”
These are the words of a boy who seem to be quite depressed, desolated and isolated.
After reading the above lines you might have a perception that the person here is pathetic. Some of you may have a pity towards him while others would be using some ultra terms like ‘chutiya hai ye.’ Okay! It happens, just the variation of perceptions. Every person conceive different ideas. But have you ever gave a deep thought to what a gay have to face in our society? I know it as I had an interaction with one such person.
Being a gay and residing in a conservative society is quite tough. They have to suffer jeer and assaulting remarks of people. Everyone apparantly starts avoiding them which leaves them forlone and subsided. People see them as if they are sinners. They are ridiculed and get an inferiority complex which bury their confidence into an abyss and they seldom overcome it. All this have an adverse affect on the person’s life. Like in this case the boy locked up himself in a room. There innumerous other cases of drug addiction and suicides as they were unable to cope up with society (ironically our society was unable to cope with them).
Unfortunately, even after a law regarding homosexuality is passed by the government of India but nothing much have been changed in this context. Homosexuality is still a taboo in our country. Our society which proclaim itself to be modern is finding this hard to digest. Though the materialistic things around us might have modernized but our thoughts are still into the shackles of conservative ideas and beliefs. Although, in metropolitian cities, people’s view and opinion has changed drastically which is evident from our honourable Supreme Court’s decision of legalising homosexuality but at the same time there are many dharma-guru and various communities who are against this pursuit.

We live in a country where it took a long time to abolish social evils like sathi-pratha, dowry & child marriage, still it exist in fractions. A society which segregate people suffering from AIDS, though with the passage of time we are now acknowledging their feelings.
I anticipate homosexuals will soon be accepted respectfully in our society. It will take some time but I know it will happen for sure. I know it because i have faith on my countrymen.

Rohit Yadav.