Title :- ATTITUDE TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS IN SIKKIM: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY .
Authors :- Miss. Kshirabdhi Tanaya Sahoo
Volume & Issue:- Volume 1, Issue 1
Date:- 07/11/2023
Page No:- 52 – 62
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Abstract:- The LGBT community or GLBT community, commonly referred to as the gay community, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and LGBT-supportive people, organizations, and subcultures, united by a common culture and social movements. These communities generally celebrate pride, diversity, individuality, and sexuality. LGBT activists and sociologists see LGBT community-building as an antidote to heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, sexualism, and conformist pressures thought to exist in the larger society. Homosexuality is a feeling or desire involving sexual attraction to people of one’s own sex. In common usage, the term homosexual is used to refer to both same-sex oriented males and females. The word ‘Gay’ is often used as a synonym for male homosexual behaviour while the term ‘Lesbian’ is referred to a woman who is sexually attracted to another woman. In terms of sexual orientation of individuals, a bisexual person is sexually attracted to both men and women. Transgender is another category who is neither a complete man nor a complete woman and are called ‘Hijras’ in Hindi and jovially referred to as ‘neither here nor there’. Gays and lesbians emphasise the cultural, social and identity aspects of homosexuality. Sexologists and sociologists are becoming increasingly aware that society cannot be divided into compartments such as homosexual and heterosexual, gay and lesbian, male and female. There is an entire sexual spectrum out there including bisexuals, transsexuals and transgendered people. In fact, sexuality is turning out to be a complex mix of biology, behaviour and identity.
Keywords:- LGBT, culture and social movements, Hijras, homosexuality.
