Browsing Tag: Homosexuality

[VIDEO] In the video, they talk about how LGBT children are often discriminated against in the society and looked down upon. “It is time we accept our children, love them and be proud of them and give them their rights in society,” the mother says.

Hearing these words of the Chaupai Sahib during the morning prayer program on the radio, which had accidentally been set to an alarm, I jolted back to consciousness and dropped my knife and collapsed onto the floor, crying.

Surely he would help me. Surely he would explain to my parents that I was still very much human, and very much normal. Surely he would be the voice of reason…

I convinced myself that I was indeed an abomination and I began a destructive path of self-hate... I would beg God to take it away, to make me straight. I would give anything, anything for it to go away, anything for me to just be normal, anything to stop being who I was ashamed of being…

The picture, which was posted on December 15 by Sikh Knowledge, was a response to India's law change.

A group for gay and transgender Sikhs in the UK has written to the prime minister and Lord Singh to protest the latter’s comments about equal marriage being a ‘secular attack’ on religion and to invite him to WorldPride.

Unfortunately for you and our other LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) brothers and sisters, you are born into one of the most hetero-male dominated culture ever. And we thought our lives as straight men or women were tough?

It’s amazing how sometimes Sikhs surprise everyone! Recently I came across this article written by Suringer Singh from Springfield VA, that was posted on the Sikh news website. I applaud the writer for his ability and vision to address such a sensitive topic.

I know that I am leaving the issue unsettled. That is deliberate, but it is not a delaying tactic. The issue is such that we will not and cannot remain immune from it. It is too important to be left only to preachers whose thinking is circumscribed by the cultural realities of Punjab and India. It is one of those major constitutional and legal issues that societies face from time to time