Gay community

But the said(prenominal) has n perpetu entirelyy been certain in any connection of the serviceman even though there argon traces of much(prenominal) re industrious that goes on off the curtain including India. Sherry Joseph by his study made an move to understand the Indian Gay and Lesbian appargonnt motion by means of and through with(predicate) and through the wider perspectives of personal identity politics. In an geological era of audacious and lesbian normalization, the homo versed immigrants of Indian subcontinent demanded in Britain and America An agenda within a racist climate various from the agenda imposed by white homophile(a)s and lesbians.The impact of colonial history and concepts of orientation upon world- views and perceptions has played a central role in how non white people carry out been defined Silenced in both south Asian patriarchal societies and the white homophile(a) communities in America and Europe, the south Asian braws and lesbians ha ve had to invent themes, often with new terms of acknowledgment (2228). The identification of ones sexual look is again the product of the we buns ideology as the good West rests on Christian values as their prime ideological moorings.In post colonial era scholars of the empire began to deliberate on a new terminology that can be conveniently apply to identify people not preferring to be straight. Thus came, the term alternate sexualities in general as an feat to colonize the general notion and establish the existence of various expressions of sexualities surrounding scriptures, arts, conduct histories etc. sheep 2229). VOLVO. 1, expose 5, JUNE 2014 www. Manipulability. Mom 41 Even with such terms the real scenario of festals and lesbians in India is that they prolong to be a band of ostracizes group, soci completelyy excluded, and are subjected to homophobia. Attain is to a salienter extent(prenominal) adjoined with the contemptuous view of the ordi realm upon the ho mosexuals what brought them d ingest as a minority with a degradingly low social respect. He attempts to undo, if not leg each(prenominal)y approve, chief(prenominal)ly homophobia, a ERM that refers to unreasonable fear of the animateds or lesbians.A subjectivity of human bes is again centered with an appeal to all that they may in every centering be treated as human being the way the third wave of feminism vouch for treating women not as a sexual urgeed identity, instead they should be looked at and thought of as human beings runner . A change of attitude is the central focus. Its a fact that the majority of people in any given society are heterosexual and the identity is based on the penetrate heterosexuality.Naturally, people with same sex behavior are not merely a minority, precisely also practice of such is a taboo, inasmuch as the Judder- Christian values and beliefs held that non-procreative sexual acts were a sin against nature and consequently frowned upon in the culture. This value system shaped the legal rear on sodomys as a criminal offence as seen in the Indian Penal polity (EPIC) Joseph 2228). The entire world is still in a suspended say as to its stand on validating zippy marriages on moral grounds and value system.The values also has undergone change oer the divisions especially, after the postmodern scenario of anti essentialist and anti foundational. Gay and lesbian motion all all over the world as caught the attention of people in general into thinking on the issue seriously. chairman and Founder of the Christian Apolo conductics and Research Ministry, Matt Slick feels his concern to write on the subject as Homosexuals want early(a)s in society to accept them as normal people with normal sexual behavior patterns. They are working hard to change moral, social, and political opinion to be more in confines with what they want.They are not content to be by themselves. They want others to accept them as a philosophically, mor ally, and ideologically valid. They want to change the opinions of people. In short, they want to change society. Therefore, it is necessary to write about something that can so drastically preserve the moral fabric of this country (Matt Slick. CARR). Attain also has felt the same concern for Indian homosexuals. Scriptural truth is a permanent reality, insofar values keep changing over time with the multifarious development of the world in an ever changing world of ours.Further, Attain is confirm in his handling the controversial issues openly in dramatic play as in the West the diary alike Human Events has thoified the ca routine that If we are on the right side of one of the greatest social, oral and spiritual issues of our time, then we need to dig deep, hold our ground, strengthen our commitment and redouble our labours, careless(predicate) of cost or consequence on an almost daily basis, the mainstream media assures us of devil things Just as many conservatives and VO LVO. ISSUE 6 42 traditionalists were on the wrong side of slavery, segregation and womens rights, we are on the wrong side of the gay rights issue today ( Traditional Osteoarthritis Values) Indian gay and lesbian movement gained ground during ass onward and they have common goals of opting for same sex matrimonial apprisalship or like a living- gather like any other heterosexuals. Both of the communities major power be disapproved by the general Indian mass, even so they differ in terms of the power relation they occupy or the space they could create for themselves.Certainly, gays have great dominance since they belong to masculine gender and India is always a potent dominant society. Indian lesbians in the ass were part of the feminist movement but later on the tie is snapped off for the same reason of societal disapproval and homophobia. The active lesbian group like Khakis in Bombay was initially a part of he feminist movement group, but later on it stopped receiving any c ommunication or cooperation from the later. So, rightly lesbianism deserved its allow place in Indian society given the age old injustice to Indian women.The certify status of Indian gay and lesbian groups are rooted to the emergence of south Asian gay and lesbian group publications in Europe and America in ass of which Terrine, Sammie, and Dost were prominent. Whereas, at present yet third groups in three metro cities like Bombay, Madras and Delhi are functional with least number of lesbians or women activists in them. Naturally, the lesbian women stand doubly marginals, first by being women and then by being lesbians.Some of them may still be viewed as the marginals of the marginals who have been forced to be isolated -turned lesbians for being subjected to marital torture, dowry related oppression, sexual violence and so on. Thus, their sexual identification as lesbians is the result of their series of normalization and a shift of political understanding. The gross normaliz ation of the gay and lesbian community occurs from the wave-particle duality of home sexuality and heterosexuality.The policy of domination by the majority to minority, or by the powerful to the feeble has been as old as subjecting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by Adam and thereby bring the hubris upon the earth. Such prominent dichotomies are black and White races in America, immigrants and natives in Europe and the US, male/female and so on. Even among women, there are black and white women in the US, upper and erect out caste women in India, and other common distinctions are based on class, race community all over the the world.The third wave of feminism has some common causality with the gay-lesbian movement. Women are looked as conventional image as wife or as a shadow to a an. Singletons is not accepted as normal in India. Such situation forces women to go for a marriage of convenience as the case happens in the Do the Needful where Lata and Lapels accepts marriage to mai ntain the status quo and later on they use the liberty to pursue their own choices .The gay movements claim of getting fair and ingenuous treatment as citizens of India is quite tenable and in unison VOLVO. 1 with the article 38(1) of the directive principles of state policies of the constitution of India that states The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as in effect as it may a social order in which Justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the content heart( Directive Principles of State Policy) .Drama functions as an intellectual sap to the society mirroring the actual happenings on play and this particular drama has fork outn the exact picture of the functioning of all gay people in India. It has helped creating more tolerance and space for them than it was before. Now its common that the gays and lesbians come together from across the country to show their solidarity and a sense f belongi ngness as a community by lending all contingent supports for one another.Currently, India is on a path of new social and economic reformation of which class consciousness is replacing caste. Similarly, dominant social groups and structures based on tradition is giving way to differentiations which is again support by its own discourse in a post modern setting that goes against any cardinal essentialist. On a Muggy Night in Iambi shows the intensity of gay extol. The depth of experience is communicated through the stage setting in which the combination of the silhouette and the indoor present an outline of the condition ofIndian gay people as a whole to the audience. One of the prominent techniques of Attain is to create the dramatic focus which highlights the depth and breadth of not solitary(prenominal) a temper but also engages the readers audience into their own attitudinal turmoil to the reality of human experience. Individual talent and dramatic techniques help spinning a outlook of people toward more bankers acceptances through a slow surgical process of evolution.It is slow be bring in the impact reverberates into the minds of an audience and the same helps consolidate their rational approach to the vexed issue to be translated into acceptance. Attains themes are traditional Indian society and its design is to impact upon the gay, lesbian and on any one who is opposed to heterosexual as defined by society. The play is a realistic picture of society as to how does it affect an individual behavior when one is denied any self expression and hypocrisy is upheld for the sake of tradition.This leads to the visualization of the character against social expectations and the same question Shard in On a Muggy Night in Iambi is haunted by as the national anthem, not as the celebrated Jan Gang, Man, but as what Makes A Man A Man (Collected Play 55). This question teems from his quest for existentialist and as chief(prenominal) as the national anthem. Samp les is engaged with a love of convenience or sham- love for Samples who only films an attempt of love, but his heart is engaged somewhere else what evokes Shards laments l wasted a year of my watchliness being a house wife for you and all I get is a kick back in the assYou beast (56) Shard discovered that Samples was in love with Parkas, but he overly was a wounded lover, for Parkas was more afraid of being banished by the society and hence, distanced himself. Shard loved Samples rightfully as he put on sinner(vermilion) like traditional women ND wore bangles what he bust at a height of emotion, for what he found is now lost because of Parkas. Shard helped him forget his lost-love with Parkas but hardly could he do that as Parkas kept cropping up to his mind painfully.Shard could not conceal his licking of unrequited love with Samples to lates catalytic remarks that they must be back to terms of their love -relations If I had a lover, would I be such a bitchy? Immediately, Deeply gets back to her born(p) sense of empathy for the female species saying that Mimi can call yourself a dog, call yourself a pig, but never, ever insult a female (59). Shard, temporary hookup suggesting the guard to be shameless, accepts that the gay people are all shameless, but this comes as his deep protest against such societal taboo upon them.Deeply is more of a plane character as she does not undergo any complex changes of life and performs more like filler, yet she is dynamic in her response to a conflicting situation which is expressive of her internal dialogues, put onward as external dialogues and reactions at various points in the dramatic narrative. Thats the reason that she retorts to the example of a bitchy. She o becomes more revelatory in her plea for an acceptance for gay people.Hence, she as with Shard stands betwixt the two categories of round and flat characters in its literary sense or rather they are an metal of these two and hence may be labeled as catalytic character, who help manifest the main or dynamic characters like Samples or exercise/Parkas. She pleads for the gay mens cause more than her own category of lesbians l am for gay mens cause. Men deserve only men (60). A distinct psychological mooring upon which ones sexual behavior rests upon is set by the dominant discourse of any society.Attain sets a discourse through insouciant language and out-on -the- thoroughfare characters through distinct mode of sexism. For example, Deeply and Samples never feel any love for each other in a sense of love- making. Its made clear when Deeply expresses that if Samples were a woman, they could be in a love and the same is reciprocated in opposite terms and finally Deeply asserts If we were heterosexuals, we would be married (65).Deeply feels proud of being a woman Every time I menstruate, I thank matinee idol I am a woman, the same word are suggested in a different way by Shard to register his contempt for all those who en any s pace for gay or lesbians Every time I menstruate, I thank God I am not pregnant (66). Samples in the gathering of his gay and lesbian friends is obsessed with his lost love and separation with Parkas and in turn he makes Shards life miserable. In other wrangle, victim turns into victimizer.Parkas, at the initial stage of the drama is a victim of social pressure what is made clear in the words of Samples himself He left me because he was ashamed of our human relationship (69). Samples was visiting a homophobic psychiatrist to get rid of his depression but the psychiatrist plunged him into a worse situation out of his own disgust of such gay people, for he believed only in aversion therapy which brought further depression to Samples as he VOLVO. 1 45 recalls Until he said I would never be happy as a gay man.It is impossible to change society, he said, but it may be possible for you to reorient yourself (69). pure(prenominal) termed the doctors eccentric and homophobic view as primi tive idea. In fact, the society is the great barrier what Attains dramatic technique and making of the characters unravel as an anti- nastiness against a venom of hatred for all these people who are trundling to be accepted as human beings and human hauteur in the society. bunny rabbit, the TV actor, alike has experienced the same treatment of homophobia and non acceptance as gay.While all the gay friends assembled at Sampless residence to sympathize with the tragedy of Samples, Sheehan music was pouring in. They show their antipathy by turning on CD player, for they are anguished as no such celebrations are solemnizes for them and hence, such rituals or music is, filthy hot air (73) for them. Here, one contrast is shown one marriage is divergence on with social gaiety amid colors and USIA down stairs and upstairs apartment is considering a educate up of a gay marriage with the chanting of parallel mantra This city and God are witness to my vow , I break all ties with Parkas(7 3). Love for each other for these two friends is so voiceless that Samples could not tear up the Joint photograph with Parkas symbolizing their conjugal relationship. From the episode of separation amongst these two friends begins the tragedy of Koran, a dear sister of Samples himself. She was introduced to exertion by Samples since four years.The gathering at Sampless flat upstairs in Act l, is the hot bed of making ND break of serve all gay relationship and the trauma they bear silently throughout their lives. Koran came to know for the first time in that gathering that her sidekick is being treated for depression. When she goes to the bedroom to unpack her belongings she is transparent to the audience that she was placing a photograph on the side table indicating not only her knowledge of the relationship of her brother, but also as a powerful symbol of her ensuing tragic course of life.All the three Acts are three in one. Psychic turmoil of all the characters, their pleasu re and pain, frustration and evolve against the society are balanced placing them in the silhouette and the front show of the stage setting. This Juxtaposition of interior and the out-of-door or the front and the back stage against each other is to create a deep depiction on the audience s mind as to the conflicts that goes in their consciousness, yet how they struggle to reconcile with the stern reality of society- a reality divorced from free expression and fair play.Samples the main character of the drama is brought in the Act II with brilliant dramatic technique in which he walks by Deed at the lonely park at round 8. 30 PM, yet not visible to the audience. He has throttled a few pegs to get rid of his depression and he divulges the fact of his coming to the park as to let someone know his story before he ends his life by committing suicide. Someone but listens to his story (history? ) who, in turn, is the exact cause of such woebegone condition of life.Social paranoia is wh at troubled Deed as he was a little more reactive to peoples suspicion about his gay relationship with Parkas that turned him into hyper vigilant against any social threat from any quarter. Samples struggles or visibility of such relationship against the blind sensibility of average people They cant see us at all, although we can see them. They must be blind (81). Then, Samples asks Deed to close his eyes, stand behind him and fondle gently to discover Can you see how beautiful we are (82)?Through long pause and closeness after this warmth of feeling of the two old lovers, fading light, slow music and then Sampless appearance on front show of the stage to Join the gathering of his friends of Act I while the light reappears to create a sense of change of time and space, is a reliant technique of creating two distinct mental spaces into the minds of the audience to recreate the subtlety of feelings of these two men off the glare of the everyday world in their minds and the dreary i ntercourse of the same world under the visibility of everyone in which hardly they could feel proud of and contented with what they are all about.Surreptitious orchestration of pause and silence, music, light are through to heighten their speed of the stream consciousness natural to all human beings. Social pressure is so enormous that Deeds psychiatrist could convince him that is love is the work of a devil and through regular church going alone could absolve him of such devil. Samples also believes it and so he wants to revoke showing the photograph of their love making to his own sister, Koran, who is now going to be married with Deed. On the other hand double-dyed(prenominal), an European immigrant, is contrasted with his Indian counter parts of gay community.In Europe he has greater freedom of being honest to his sexual behavior but in India he might not expect the same degree of freedom There is such a thing as honesty. Or maybe it is the company you keep. Or maybe the compa ny I am in (88). Further Arrant is perturbed seeing closet homosexuals in India and he regrets being an Indian on grounds of his advantage point of Western immigration. His statement to Bunny echoes the shifting subject of spirituality in Indian society l cant seem to be both Indian and gay. But you are simply ashamed. All this sham is to cover up your shame (88).The hypocrisy of Indian society is again substantiated through Bunnys character. He belongs to Sikh community, yet he avoids wearing a turban as he would be subjected to stereotypical role of being a Seaward . The characters are designed skillfully representing every type and category of India gay and lesbian people on stage in an effort to producing a gay ambiance within an hour or two to show what India is passing through presently. The real plight of this marginals community is made clear in exact terms through Deeplys words that it is more fear of being ostracizes or a subject of homophobia than any brand name of shame attached to them.Basic human dignity is at stake for all these people in general. universe woman and lesbian is more pathetic in India when Deeply makes it pretty loud and clear Its not shame, is it? With us? Its fear Of the VOLVO. 1 47 corners we will be pushed into where we dont want to be (89). Attains effort has been to widen this corner of Indian society to make it at least as large as to accommodate these innocent Boniface citizens of a independent country, known for its age old tolerance and universal acceptance.Of course, India as a nation could be depict in no better terms than the first address at the world parliament of organized religion at Chicago by Swami Vaccinated l am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth (Vaccinated 3). Naturally, Attain has every reason as an artist to touch on the glory of this great nation by upholding the cause of the marginal people toward greater tole rance and acceptance for all. Equally fluctuating is the condition of Shards mind after being broken from Samples.He too wants to force his way to be straight , to be a real man only to be accepted by the society, even though he knows deep down within himself that he is as gay as a goose and seeks the advice of a psychiatrist only to invite a crisp distress in his life. Koran still thinks wishfully of a happy bond between her brother and Shard as she recalls her own life of solitude after divorce. She also warns about the gravity of misery a woman undergoes in this country Just because of male dominance.Shards decision to act like a straight might shatter a womans life And think of the sad woman. You may end up marrying Just as a cover up for your shame (102). Bunny accepts that he is a gay man and keeps deceiving people through his constant denial and in the process all such gay people vacillates between the world of reality and the world of sham, finding no permanent anchor to embrace with fullness of heart. The last scene of Act Ill lays bare the ridiculousness of life of all the gay people on stage who are representative of entire gay community.Deed is the most pathetic character not only for Deeply, but also for every viewer or reader the way he has shattered the lives of Samples and Koran. He also could not remain immune to this wretched condition of life as a closure look and a psychological delving into his character reveals that he is more sinned against than sinning. His very purpose of marrying Koran was a matter of convenience so that he could continue his love for Samples without any suspicion from any one. Certainly, in the process he could save one life at the cost of the other and the other is a woman.Koran, while looking at the photograph of Deed and Samples kissing each other, cries out through the open window leading to the vacuous blue flip-flop of Bombay. She must have felt the void of the sky more than anyone else who has not passed t hrough the tormenting labyrinth of life like hers. She is that subaltern woman, conditioned to tolerate torture and untold suffering. She remembers her past life as to how she use to be beaten up by her husband ND still she continued to accept and provide all these as she believed and felt that he loved her l felt he loved me adequacy to want to hurt me (107).She questions Deeds motive of marrying her and the answer comes out as her dramatic monologue that all such gay people behave in a stereotypical manner VOLVO. 1 as we Just dont know what else to be (107) The imagery of the photograph with Deed as the best couple on the floor that appears in her mind matches with the vacuous blue sky to sublimate the absurdity of her life. The explosion of fireworks, colored sights and loud screams of delight from the ground floor heightens the inner turmoil of a saddest thought, perhaps churning an existential dilemma in her mind.Deed in utter shame and disgust for life is completely broke n down Where do I begin? How do I begin to live (111)? All the characters on stage are suddenly plunged into existential dilemma in the world of irresolution and absurdity of life. The height of the dilemma in the last scene is accentuated by more firecrackers and lusty yells from the matrimony below. Lights are slowly fading to beckon the void while the pictures of Deed and Samples and Koran ND Samples are slowly evanescent from the minds of the audience before it is completely engulfed into darkness.The stage setting and delineation of the pathos of the characters, here, Just reminds one the most exact definition of short story by Arbitration tagre Simple events of life happy or sad, Some sad strings from the train of forgetfulness, Not troubled with heavy descriptions, Not crowded with events, No advice, no philosophy Only the feeling that the story is not yet over Although there is no more to read (Bangladesh) Conclusion The queer characters representing both the gays and les bians of urban diddle class India undergo a tortuous Journey of visualization due to homophobia and social ostracise of such people.Attain has been true to his calling as a dramatist to show their painful odyssey of modern India, yet how the issue escapes the thinking mass to be considered for an acceptance and a right place in the society. Its rightly an odyssey as the victims at times turn into victimizers thereby bringing upon them a series of miseries, little knowing what exactly ails them. The dramatist has won the heart of every one by bringing this cause of ailment, the whole truth of it, on stage with all sincerity of purpose.