From the BBC video, it seems that the two young men are Christians --the sprawling and dysfunctional DeSouza family is the centerpiece of the film-- and spokesman for the All India Christian Council assures us that every religion in the country sees homosexuality as wrong. Something Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Sikhs can all agree on. I have looked at a variety of review of the film. Apparently it has bigger problems than gay sex.
One of the gay activists interviewed about the film says that it will help break down stereotypes and misconceptions, including the confusion between gays and transgenders! Every other Western-style construction of LGBTism aims to do precisely the opposite. Good luck with that one.
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"will help break down stereotypes and misconceptions, including the confusion between gays and transgenders!"
Things like this can still happen outside of the Decadent West...In Japan, where some cities have had GLB events for years, the latest addition to the lineup makes not GLBT, but GLBA, the last letter being for /asexuals/, people attracted to neither gender. Nobody here would think of this.
--Nathan/LightSnake
But don't you think that's almost as weird a grouping, Nathan? What's desire for the same sex got to do with desire for neither?
Oh, it certainly a weird grouping -- sort of like putting blood-types B, AB, and O together just by not being A ** - but the point is that it's still at least about the general "sexual orientations" idea, and not an attempt to blur same into the trans* category. I find it considerably _less_ weird. And an example of thought outside of transytrendyness. I'd prob rather "come out" to someone after a GLBA parade went by than an LGBTQ one.
-Nathan
** As the Japanese have a pop notion of blood types as personality types, much like astrological signs, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an inspiring metaphor here.
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