You’re Gay And You Don’t Know It.

I attended this conference on gay people by Nivedita Menon, Pramada Menon, Gautam Bhan (prominent activists, took the initiative of decriminalization of sex between homosexuals under 377) as a part of my law studies. The first thing that this name brought to my mind was hours of cribbing about gay rights and equality. I guess others in my batch shared the same instinct, because as soon as the word of going to the conference broke out, everybody started thinking of excuses to give for missing it. “I am Homophobic” was my personal favourite. I anyways followed the crowd and attended the conference, and it blew my mind. Their main argument was not how gays are discriminated against, their argument was how the simple identity of being gay overshadowed rest every identity. So if a person says “I am a lecturer at Harvard, CEO at Apple, oh and by the way, I am gay” subconsciously the way you will categorize him is not as “teacher at Harvard” or “CEO at apple” but as “a gay.”