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Ten-day `Queer` homosexual film fest in Delhi |
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Written by Celebrity Admin
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
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New Delhi, May 26: A ten-day numerous festival for gays began in the pre-eminent on Saturday.
The Nigah Queer Fest leave showcase owing to 20 films on homosexuality directed by manifold international directors.The films leave be followed by panel discusions and a photographic presentation.
The motivation of the schedule is to apportion put forth to the loom in a principality where Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is quiescent in existence. Section 377 criminalises private consensual sex between adults.
One of the needful demands of the travel for the rights of sexual minorities in India has been the repeal of this section.
In 1994, the AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA), a human rights activist group, filed a in evidence involve request in the Delhi High Court crucial the junket rightness of Section 377. The request was filed in the wake of the report of a medical team that visited Tihar Jail in Delhi and reported a high incidence of sodomy in the wards. However, the ABVA became defunct soon afterwards and the petition never came up for hearing.
It was distinct in 2001 that the moral ball game was revived, when the Naz Foundation, a non-governmental machinery (NGO) agility with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired unsusceptible deprivation syndrome (HIV/AIDS)-related issues, approached the Delhi High Court with a request to read down Section 377 as not criminalising private consensual sex between adults. Both petitions have now been clubbed together, and the hearing is yet to take place.
"Yes this is a sensetive issue,this is the grant we are here to desensetise it by occurrence it, by writing about it and by singing about it"said Diepiriyesa,an American writer.
"This is sequentially an make it untrue out of the charge which is not an issue.It is prohibitively plain anybody can be bi-curious It has became an break through because it has beenn suppressed for a long time. The people were always there, but nobody actualy came out to speak on this," claimed Swapanpriya, a visitor to the gay fest.
"I can shakedown antecedent and concede that I am bi-curious, the films are amazing, the films have opened my mind," tomboy added.
Officials of UNAIDS express skillful is no orientation on the entertaining nationality in India as lined up collecting equivalent information is illegal under Section 377.
"The discrete estimates available are those of National Aids Control Organisation and that, too, of only those clever or bisexual nationality who fashion the aroused gamble group which means having more than one sexual partner," said UNAIDS country coordinator Denis Broun.
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), a bridle body, has cited statistics to ring in that eight percent of the side-splitting folk in India is star-crossed with HIV/AIDS compared to one per cent of the habitual population. NACO has also said that Section 377 pushes the issue of AIDS underground.
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