LGBT is a huge issue in a country like India. One one side where people are fighting for the bill to be passed on the other side the people falling in category of LGBT is not given proper rights to live life accordingly. In this scenario the question arises , Are We Ready To Accept the LGBT Rights?

1. Presidency University
School Of Management
Communication for Managers
Individual Presentation
By:
Poulami Dasgupta
ID No. 2016MBA055
Batch : 2016-2018

2. LGBT RIGHTS: Are We Ready To Accept It

3. What is LGBT
L – Lesbian
G – Gay
B – Bisexual
T – Transgender

4. Who are LGBT?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
in India face legal and social difficulties not experienced
by non-LGBT persons. Sexual activity between people
of the same gender is illegal, and same-sex couples
cannot legally marry or obtain a civil partnership. India
does, however, legally recognize Hijras as a third
Gender, separate from men or women.
The Indian cities of Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore held
their first gay pride parades on July 29, 2008.

5. LAWS AND RECOGNITION RELATED TO LGBT
Homosexual intercourse was made a criminal offense 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.“
 On 23 February 2012, the Ministry of Home Affairs expressed its opposition to the
decriminalisation of homosexual activity, stating that in India, homosexuality is seen as
being immoral.
 The Central Government reversed its stand on 28 February 2012, asserting that there was
no legal error in decriminalising homosexual activity.
 On December 18, 2015, Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian National Congress party,
introduced the bill for the decriminalisation of Section 377, but the bill was rejected by the
house by a vote of 71-24.
 On February 2, 2016, the Supreme Court decided to review criminalisation of homosexual
activity. In 2016, Kerala mooted free sex-reassignment surgeries in Government hospitals
after it introduced the first State government policy on transgender people.
 Same-sex marriages are not legally recognized in India, nor are same-sex couples offered
more limited rights such as a civil union or a domestic partnership. This may change, at the
local level, in light of a landmark court opinion in the city of Gurgaon.
 In 2011, the court granted legal recognition to a same-sex marriage, involving two
women. After marrying, the couple began to receive threats from friends and relatives in
their village.

6. LGBT IN THE U.S. & U.K.

7. Gay and Lesbian Couple got married
Navin Manglani and Navin Vashu
Dargani were the first Indian
American gay couple to get married
in 2011, a month after gay marriages
were legalised in New York.
Mala Nagarajan and Vega Subramaniam
got married at Seattle Aquarium in 2002
and there's was the first Hindu lesbian
wedding in North America.

8. Future of LGBT in India
 the profile of LGBT is increasing with pride parades and protests
providing an end to the discrimination.
 Decriminalisation on homosexual acts was a landmark decision in 2009. it
is hoped to get advanced overtime with the legislation and put an end to
the discrimination
 As leading companies creates inclusive workplace for LGBT , it is hoped
that it will lead to growing acceptance in LGBT in professional sector.
What more is needed?
 High profile gay individual form Bollywood , business and government
coming out and showing that it is acceptable to be gay in India today .
 More intelligence media disclosure – On LGBT issues and rights, rather
than a sensationalist reporting that reporting that reinforce prejudice.

9. ARE WE & WILL WE
Are we ready to accept
LGBT rights?
 Does the question of ‘ being ready’ actually
arise?
 It is a matter of a group of people are being
oppressed and being robbed of basic dignity of
life.
 If a guy is allowed to fall for a girl and marry her,
why can’t the same person be allowed to fall for
a person of similar sex and get married?
 The same people who will happily eat biriyani at
the wedding would have ostracised them and
attacked them, perhaps even tried to kill them.
Even if they had decided to get away from it all
and lived together as a couple, they could have
been arrested and punished with life
imprisonment according to Section 377 of
Indian Penal Code
Will we accept LGBT
Rights?
 LGBT rights are human rights.
 We do not think about acceptance when it
comes to other human rights.
 But, society is changing where more young
and modern people are accepting LGBT as
normal and straight one.
 A group of people will exist opposing the
right and it is difficult to eliminate it.
 It is a mater of time when people of the
country will LGBT as normal right and treat
them equally.

10. Conclusion
Gay people in India are murdered or forced to commit suicide daily.
Trans women are sexually assaulted. People who do no harm to anyone
else but just wish to live the way they are treated absolutely
inhumanely all over the country.
This is a national shame.
Let us stop philosophising and correct this historic wrong done
already.
So that we can give a positive answer our children and grandchildren
about the shameful way we treated other humans.

11. THANK YOU