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Homosexuals galore: Pride marches in India, Sprinters in America

By: Santosh :+: Under: Culture, Humor
On: ⋅ July 3, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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It’s been an exciting week for those people with alternative lifestyles - gays in India have been coming out of the closet faster than skeletons out of Indian politicians’ closets and marching on the streets. [BBC]

Having a “good” time - desi ishtyle
img: via BBC

“I pay my taxes, I give my vote, I should have the right to choose my life partner …. ” said one of the banners as thousands of gays took to the streets of Delhi in the first gay pride march in that city to “commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York which broke out after police raided a gay bar”. In India, homosexuality is a crime and so is being a “good citizen” - paying your taxes, voting legally and choosing your life partner without the help of your parents are all against our culture.

There were marches in Calcutta and Bangalore also and a large number of marchers held the rainbow flags or wore rainbow masks or clothing, making it a really colorful event.

In our other homosexual news of the day (not desi related), in the land that invented the word “gay” for homosexuals, a Mr. Homosexual smashed the world 100-meter record unofficially. [WaPo]

The American Family Association obviously didn’t foresee the problems that might arise with its strict policy to always replace the word “gay” with “homosexual” on the Web site of its Christian news outlet, OneNewsNow. The group’s automated system for changing the forbidden word wound up publishing a story about a world-class sprinter named “Tyson Homosexual” who qualified this week for the Beijing Olympics.

“Tyson Homosexual” really was “Tyson Gay” but the Christian website’s “Find Replace” feature screwed up making for the website an easy target for jokes. For instance:

Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team and served notice he’s certainly someone to watch in Beijing.

I guess the godless religion-less Chinese love Homosexual.

More quotes from Homosexual:

“It means a lot to me,” the 25-year-old Homosexual said. “I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.”

Chee chee chee. Such words on a family based website. Another juicy tidbit, courtesy Über Desi vonly, the guy who came in behind Homosexual was Dix.

Walter Dix was placed second in the race.

On a more serious note, the second story only denotes a small part of the kind of discrimination, people from the first story face on a daily life basis.

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