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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM, <modera...@gaybombay.in> wrote: > ** > > > *July 2011** **Last updated at **04:27 GMT** *** > India health minister: Gay sex is a disease**** > > *[image: Ghulam Nabi Azad]**Ghulam Nabi Azad says gay sex is a 'disease' * > > *Continue reading the main > story<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14024774#story_continues_1> > * > > *India's health minister has said homosexuality is a "disease" which is > "spreading fast" in the country.* > > *Ghulam Nabi Azad also told a meeting that gay sex was "unnatural". > Activists said his comments were "unfortunate".* > > *India's Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex in the country in a landmark > judgement in 2009.* > > *The ruling was widely welcomed by India's gay community, which said the > order would help protect them from harassment and persecution.* > > *Mr Azad told a meeting on HIV/Aids in Delhi on Monday that gay sex "which > was found more in the developed world, has now unfortunately come to our > country and there is a substantial number of such people in India".* > > *"Even through it [homosexuality] is unnatural, it exists in our country > and is now fast spreading, making it tough to detect it," he said.* > > *"With relationships changing, men are having sex with men now. Though it > is easy to find women sex workers and educate them on sex, it is a challenge > to identify men having sex with men."* > > *Gay rights activists have criticised Mr Azad's comments.* > > *"It's unfortunate, regrettable and totally unacceptable that a minister > of his stature... is still insensitive to a vulnerable groups such as MSM > [men who have sex with men]," Hindustan Times newspaper quoted Anand Grover, > United Nation's special rapporteur on health, as saying.* > > *According to one estimate, more than 8% of homosexual men in India were > infected with HIV, compared to a less than 1% infection rate in the general > population.* > > *The 2009 Supreme Court ruling overturned a 148-year-old colonial law > which described a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence". * > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *Email: > **modera...@gaybombay.in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay/post?postID=DCvNIbdTv_3_C5j5flK54HZuyqMJgNC-L4S3BWR464eSfMgGEAMLax1OSqSI6REqIgVM3LQEejINlemMrw> > * > > *E Groups: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay > > http://groups.google.com/group/Gaybombay > > http://groups.google.com/group/GayIndia > > **Public archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html** > > **Rss feed: > http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com/maillist.xml** > > **GB Internet Radio at http://www.gaybombay.in/gbradio** > > **Web Sites: > > www.gaybombay.in > > www.gayindia.org > ** > **Orkut: > > http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile?uid=15084918632470824129 > ** > **Blogs: > > http://gaybombay.blogspot.com > > http://gaybombay.wordpress.com > ** > **Twitter: > > http://twitter.com/gaybombay > > http://twitter.com/gayindia** > > **Facebook: > > http://www.facebook.com/gaybombay > > http://www.facebook.com/gayindia*** > > ** ** > > >
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