[lbo-talk] Indians cope with influx of Western "gayness" thing, which was sort of OK before the Brits

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 30 17:09:12 PDT 2009


If it was sort of OK before the Brits, doesn't that make it non-Western?

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> "The Hindu view was very, very tolerant," Mr Kidwai said.
> "If you look at punishments, making love to another man got
> far less punishment than a caste infraction. Certain people
> who were known to have lovers of the same sex were even
> venerated."
>
> Intrusion a



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