Dear India, Kiss Goodbye To Section 377

Scrap Section 377, writes Harish Iyer for The Quint’s Letter to India campaign.

Harish Iyer is an activist for a number of socio-cultural and environmental issues. He is an equal rights activist, known for his campaigns for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community.

Dear India,

I want you to invent a new word for tolerance and when we are at it, I want to tell you how I’ve been tolerating heterosexuals all my life.

I want you to not “tolerate” homosexuals but return the favour. We have been tolerating you all this while.

I want you to kiss goodbye to Section 377 because Section 377 doesn’t penalise homosexuals alone, it penalises any kind of unnatural sex.

Whether you do it with a man or a woman, whether you are a man or a woman or a transgender; Section 377 says that the penis can go only into the vagina and no other place. So, if it goes in any other place – you go to jail!

Yours truly,

An empathetic, homosexual Indian.  

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