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Homophobia is a big obstacle for the homosexuals to be at peace, opines Shivani. An exclusive for Different Truths.
We as liberal homosexual youngsters studying in schools tend to feel uncomfortable and are held under microscopes and teachers usually do not know what to do in this condition and often tell the parents to consult someone and try to manipulate the child into something they don’t want to be.
On September 6, 2018, homosexuality was decriminalised by the Supreme Court of India serving for the avoidance of bullying and violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. We as liberal homosexual youngsters studying in schools tend to feel uncomfortable and are held under microscopes and teachers usually do not know what to do in this condition and often tell the parents to consult someone and try to manipulate the child into something they don’t want to be.
We as an educated society tend to call ourselves liberal and transparent to all the opinions about day to day topics and analysis. But this topic of homosexuality still causes fear among most of the educated class even if they are not the ones going through it; even if they do they try to manipulate their feelings by continuously telling themselves that this is not who they are and it is just a phase. It drowns them into an ocean of what they call, ‘a disrespect to tradition’, it demands them to be a little more liberal and to stretch their acceptance horizons.
Homophobia is a big obstacle for the homosexuals to be at peace. They make them feel unwanted, unaccepted, abnormal and under-confident, which leads them to depression, anxiety and various other consequences of not being accepted by the society just because of some imaginary beliefs and compressed liberalism.
There is always something that always resists something great, be it education, wealth, socialism, democracy, liberalism, heterosexual and homosexual love, anything. In the case, it seems to be the self-constructed barriers of nonacceptance and blinding criticism. Homophobia is a big obstacle for the homosexuals to be at peace. They make them feel unwanted, unaccepted, abnormal and under-confident, which leads them to depression, anxiety and various other consequences of not being accepted by the society just because of some imaginary beliefs and compressed liberalism.
It is essential for us as a society to protect all sorts of individuals and not try to manipulate them and blame them for it, because they really can not get themselves to help this situation of love and fear, compressed under the shadows of orthodoxy, homophobia, non-acceptance, fear, self-deprivation, hate and procrastination.
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Very well written Shivani.
Very well written!!
Indeed creditable to pick up a controversial topic at the tender age of 15 years which shows how sensitive the author is about the fellow human beings n their feelings!!!
An excellent effort !!!
Very well written article on a prominent social issue. There is so much compassion within your thoughts. I hope more people lose their prejudices and understand the challenges created by homophobia.
well written! Beautifully highlighting this matter of grave importance
Very well written. ♥️
Well written Shivani. Such a mature perspective on this topic and that too when you are still in school! You do have a penchant for writing. All the best!
Very thoughtful n well written Shivani .. clearly age is no bar specially when u r writing n expressing your thoughts at such young age on a very bold subject like homosexuality ..my best wishes for all ur future write-ups/ blogs
Great Shivani…proud ofyou
GOD bless you Shivani beta. You may not know me I taught your mom at Medical college. The topic of write-up is very controversial. At such a young age you have such a mature understanding and expressed it beautifully. Keep it up. Wish you to touch the sky.