A soft skill project based on gay marriage that me and my friend made in Second year of engineering , to create awareness.

1. Gay Marriages
By:-
Anuja Ogale (49)
Preeti Joddabge (57)
(SE MECH)

2. "Why would anyone deny people the opportunity to marry
someone they love?"
• Marriage, that is, is about the love that seeks lifelong companionship - and that is the
only thing essential to it.
• It is all about loving couples, irrespective of gender and sex, sharing their lives and
supporting each other.
•. For the preface lists three causes, or purposes, of marriage. These are:
1. the procreation and nurture of children;
2. as the only proper place for sexual intimacy; and
3. for the sake of lifelong companionship.

3. History
•Male-female marriage is a
naturally good that ought,
therefore, to be respected.
• Marriage cannot be
reduced to a social
convention.
•It is not a product of
human culture that we may
freely modify, but rather a
structure inherent to the
world we inhabit, a basic
given feature of human life,
which is to be received and
welcomed with gratitude
and respect.
Many Christians - who are yet to be persuaded to abandon
Jesus' teaching that, "from the beginning of creation God
made them male and female ..." and that, "for this reason a
man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh (Photo
Courtesy:http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/1367/gay_marria
genothing_new_under_the_sun.aspx#.UgKFzdKSAV8 )

4. Current Scenario in India
•Homosexual intercourse was a
criminal offence until 2009 under
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code,
1860.
•This made it an offence for a person to
voluntarily have "carnal intercourse
against the order of nature."
•This law was struck down by the 2009
Delhi High Court decision Naz
Foundation Govt. of NCT of Delhi,
which found Section 377 and other
legal prohibitions against private, adult,
consensual, and non-commercial same-
sex conduct to be in direct violation of
fundamental rights provided by the
Indian Constitution.

6. Political views
•However, on 23 February 2012, the Union Home Ministry of the UPA government replying
to a Supreme Court observation, told the Supreme Court that it was opposed to the
decriminalization of gay sex. "This is highly immoral and against the social order," the Home
Ministry told the apex court. It said that India's moral and social values were different from
other countries, and therefore, the nation should not be guided by them.
• The Central Government reversed its stand on 28 February 2012, asserting that there was
no error in decriminalizing gay sex.
•This resulted in the SC pulling up the Centre for frequently changing its stand on the issue.
•Also in 2012, a guide titled 'Creating Inclusive Workplaces for LGBT Employees in India'
was developed by IBM, Goldman Sachs, Google together with Community Business, a non-
profit organization.
World Census
The Netherlands, in 2000,
was the first country to
legalize gay marriage,
followed by Belgium in 2003
and Spain and Canada in
2005. Taken together there,
are now 11 countries that
allow same-sex marriage

7. Threats to same sex marriage
•Some of the grave concerns in this aspect are the aversion felt towards gay
couples; the humiliation and discrimination faced by them because of society
and the negative effect on friendships and familial relationships.
•There are also doubts on how would the (adopted) kids of a gay couple be
raised, potential problems they would face in their lives and several other
related questions.
•There are no gay icons, no major Bollywood stars who have come out, no
influential CEOs who have made their orientation public.
Example Case:
•The two women, who left their respective husbands
to be with each other, reportedly said that they fear
their families have hired contract killers to murder
them.
•There does appear to be some leeway for Haryana to
provide protection to the women without recognizing
their marriage as legal, as the grounds that the judge
cited apparently do not include an explicit
endorsement of gay marriage as a constitutional right,
however.

8. Amritsar, INDIA: Indian Lesbian Couple Baljit Kaur,21 ,(L) and
Rajwinder Kaur 20,(R) answer questions from media
representatives in Amritsar, 19 June 2007, during a press
meeting following their marriage on 14 June 2007. Across
India gay and lesbian couples are increasingly coming out
into the open about their sexuality and same sex marriages
are becoming more common place. (AFP/Getty Images)

9. Supportive side
•No license is required to marry, and most heterosexual Hindu marriages in India
today are performed by religious rites alone, without a marriage license and are
never registered with the state.
• State recognition is not sought by most couples because it confers few benefits.
• Most couples seek the validation of family and community, and several female
couples in rural areas and small towns have received this validation.
•There have also been a couple of high profile celebrity same-sex civil-partnerships
(same-sex marriage is not possible under French law, only civil-partnerships), such as
the civil union of designer Wendell Rodricks with his French partner Jerome Marrel,
conducted under French law in Goa, India.
• LGBT rights organizations have
demanded the right to same-sex
marriage, and, inspired both by news
from the West.
•The vast majority of gay men still get
married (70 per cent in Mumbai, 82 per
cent in smaller cities, according to a
2009 survey by the Humsafar Trust.

10. Love is the Answer ! Seema (right) and Shannon (left) got
married on June 7th, 2013, at the Smog Shoppe in Los
Angeles. The most gorgeous wedding ceremony took place
at CA .
(Photo Courtesy : http://www.stephgrantphotography.com/blog/shannon-
seema-indian-lesbian-wedding-los-angeles-ca)

11. General review:
LGBT
• L- Lesbian
•G - Gay
•B - Bisexual
•T - Transgender
Concept of Hijras :
• Called as third sex or unique.
•Traditionally believed that they would curse if not paid.
•They get their income from performing at ceremonies (toli) or begging
(dheengna).
•Violence against hijras, especially hijra sex workers, is often brutal, and occurs in
public spaces, police stations, prisons, and their homes.

12. Why is gay marriage a
relevant topic?
As a matter of fact that same sex
intercourse has been legalized
but same sex marriage still has
no scope in India.
Love cannot be denied. It has no
limitations , sees no matter.
Okay, let’s beat up the lesbians. But do the questions go away? For example, what
culture are we talking about? Do we protect it by thrashing young women and
driving them to kill themselves? And if those are questions you think you’ve heard
before, try this: exactly what is it about this marriage that deserves the quotes?
It is important to stress that the idea is not that each particular marriage has to
fulfil these purposes in order to count as a marriage.
We may not agree with it, but we should at least understand it.

13. Thank you