LGBTQ AND THEIR SPACE: LIFE DURING 2020
“I would like them to understand that we are people. We're human
beings, and this is a human life. This is reality for us, and all we ask for is
acceptance and validation for what we say that we are. It's a basic human
right.” VOGUE
In this decade we have seen many changes in our own Human or Homo-
sapiens community, there is no more orthodoxy in recognition of third
gender or be specifically LGBTQ community, but only in the book of so-
called lawmaker? Or we as a society truly accept them. the answer is No,
we have law and statues for them but we didn’t accept them as normal,
we show them support on various social media platform but do we in real
life NO. and the reason I am answering this question because this is not
my personal opinion but the answer has been concluded by research
which I conducted with various google forms and with help of NGOs, there
are many instances where people are discriminated on the basis of
gender, one of the recent incident which happen in the world most
powerful country USA, as per the newspaper report there were case in the
Supreme court of USA, BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, this is
the case between employer and employee where one of the employee
was terminated from the job due to his homosexuality afterward the
approach the apex court the judges of the highest body quotes "An
employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender
defies the law."
i
A individual homosexuality or transgender status is not
relevant to employment. “That's because it is impossible to discriminate
against a person for being homosexual or transgender without
discriminating against that individual based on sex”
ii
. Not only in USA but
in every part of the world this community is facing discrimination, based
on their sexuality and gender, every now and then we gave them feeling
that they are not normal, every human being is different from one
another and we should respect every gender.
COVID-19 or CLAUSTROPHOBIC 2020
In India LGBTQ community is facing many problems as many from these
community are hiding their true selves and now, they are stuck with their
family because of this situation due to coronavirus lockdown, some of
them are facing severe consequence after their families find out about
their preference.
I have gone through various social media platform connecting to these
people they have shared their stories, how this lockdown affecting their
life, they asked me to don’t reveal their identity which shows that how
inhumane we are towards them that they didn’t have courage to openly
tell their story, one of the member of their community, Kumar*, a young
