My dear Limey friend, it wasn’t the imposition of gay rights, English education and railroads that made us kick you out – It had more to do with the 300 years of rape, murder and exploitation, the subjugation of a people in their own land, and the perpetual absurdity of having a subcontinent ruled by a decaying power on a small island.

That was 60 years ago.

…we all know that happy news like this is rare these days

But then I also remember you claiming that Britain fought alone against the Nazis until 1941.
Four of my great uncles and my grandfather, were they alive today would have corrected you on that oversight. Perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with events in the Pacific Theatre as well.

Sorry if I didn’t make my point clearly enough. I’ll try again.

I’d rather live where I am right now – Canada – where we have a few more of our rights recognized than they do in India, the U.S. or your increasingly-restrictive nanny state of Britain (nice place it is, but if I had to live in Europe Germany is a lot nicer, and the food is far better).

I don’t usually feel the need to point that out to people though, because it’s arrogant, impolite, and always false. None of us live in “the best country in the world” and certainly none of our nations are free from homophobia.

I sometimes make an exception though, when someone starts braying about how great his country is, or gets condescending about someone else’s home.

If you paid attention to GayIndian’s second paragraph (in #4) it’s not the expression of blind chauvanism you make it out to be. He says quite clearly that leaving the law on the books this long has shamed his country.

But he quite rightly points out that we all have work to do – even in the developed world – and none of us has any call to put anyone else down, especially over a positive turn of events like this.

You especially should be a little sensitive about the situation, coming from the country which is largely responsible for how things are in India. It is, after all, one of your laws which is being stricken. I don’t feel that I am any better because they were removed here in 1969 and it has taken until now to do it in India.

I am just happy for them.

I love it when the-not-very-bright reveal their low intelligence by showing they cannot even logically construct an argument but have to resort to abuse!

Fantastic!

It is hardly worth engaging with your stupidity, but for the sake of protocol let me try.

Question: Would anyone gay on these boards rather live in India rather than the USA? (personally, choosing between Europe, India or the USA, I prefer Europe, but hey)

Second question: how does the Indian army treat its gay service-people? GAYINDIAN equates US policy towards its service personel with the total illegality of gay sex in India and says the US is just as bad.

Surely even you dunderheads can see that this is madness?

Yeah?

Tallskin is a douche. Ive met several like him. I do have to say though I think India would have benefitted had the Brit’s stayed on a tad longer. Not as a country in charge but rather as a guiding hand. Too many massive problems have come since they left. The population is absolutely out of control which of course is linked to the abject poverty. And thats just one of the problems! I dont think India was ready to be completely independent but thats just my very humble opinion and it’s certainly easy to say since I wasnt living under British rule. Thanks anyway for putting the douche in his place.

Look my dear, don’t be a fucking prat. Speaking as another colonial, you have no reason to get on your fucking high horse.

Your country ran India until 50 years ago. Britain has done a fair bit of good for its former colonies, but let’s not forget that section 377 – the one that is being tucked into the grave – is a British law.

And I assume you were being facetious about the Gurkhas, because otherwise you don’t know shit about military history.

Speaking as a Brit, a European, I would rather live in the US than the horrible place that is India.

You say one can be thrown out of the military for being gay in the US, but what the fuck would happen to you if you are gay in the Indian military?

(And yes we know that the Indian army is the best in the world!!)

I certainly hope youre right. And of course I hope equality under the law for the GLBT community does come to India…sooner rather than later. I worry though about the noise the religious fanatics are already making.

It doesn’t just mean that.
The provincial court struck down a federal law. It sets a nation-wide precedent.

More importantly, the new government is actively working to change this section of the criminal code and has said they will do so once parliament opens in the fall.

Ok lets be clear about this, India just decrmininalzed it in New Delhi, not the entire country. And while there are plenty of problems when it comes to the US and it’s anti equality laws, comparing one city in India whre you can kind of be gay without being arrested to the US is no coparrison. Where would you rather live?

Being a gay Indian in the US, this is great news to read, but equally sad because it took too long, too much harassment, and too much shame on such a beautiful country as that of India.