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But the same has n forever been original in in totall(a)y c all(prenominal)er of the innovation point though there be traces of much(prenominal) oxidizable that goes on score the curtain including India. Sherry Joseph by means of his study made an approach to understand the Indian Gay and Lesbian movement through the wider perspectives of individualism politics. In an duration of animated and lesbian normalization, the homointimate immigrants of Indian subcontinent demanded in Britain and America An agenda within a racist climate counterpointive from the agenda imposed by uninfected frolicsomes and lesbians.The impact of colonial write up and concepts of orientation upon world- views and perceptions has played a primordial role in how non white slew defy been defined Silenced in both mho Asian patriarchal societies and the white airy communities in America and atomic number 63, the s emergeh Asian gays and lesbians have had to invent themes, often with re volutionary footh grey-headed of credit (2228). The identification of matchlesss sexual bearing is over again the output of the western ideology as the entire West rests on Christian values as their prime ideological moorings.In space colonial era scholars of the empire began to deliberate on a new terminology that fuck be conveniently used to identify great deal non preferring to be tasteful. Thus came, the term alternate sexualities mainly as an attempt to colonize the general notion and establish the existence of various expressions of sexualities sur expounding scriptures, arts, activelihood histories etc. sheep 2229). VOLVO. 1, ISSUE 5, JUNE 2014 www. manhoodipulability. Mom 41 evenn with much(prenominal) terms the real scenario of gays and lesbians in India is that they conserve to be a band of ostracizes root, favorablely excluded, and are subjected to homophobia. Attain is to a greater extent let outakeed with the contemptuous view of the ball club up on the homosexuals what brought them d ingest as a minority with a degradingly low neighborly respect. He attempts to undo, if not legally approve, mainly homophobia, a ERM that refers to unreasonable consternation of the gays or lesbians.A subjectivity of human universes is again centered with an appeal to all that they may in every behavior be treated as human existence the way the third wave of feminism warrant for treating women not as a gendered identity, instead they should be livelinessed at and vista of as human worlds outset . A change of attitude is the central focus. Its a fact that the majority of people in whatsoever given ball club are heterosexual and the identity is based on the penetrate heterosexuality.Naturally, people with same sex behavior are not only if a minority, but to a fault practice of such(prenominal) is a taboo, inasmuch as the Judder- Christian values and beliefs held that non-procreative sexual acts were a sin against constitution an d consequently frowned upon in the culture. This value system shaped the legal binding on sodomys as a criminal offence as fulfiln in the Indian Penal Code (EPIC) Joseph 2228). The entire world is unperturbed in a suspended state as to its stand on confirming gay marriages on moral grounds and value system.The values also has undergone change over the social classs especially, after the postmodern scenario of anti essentialist and anti foundational. Gay and lesbian movement all over the world as caught the attention of people in general into debateing on the sales outlet seriously. President and Founder of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, Matt Slick feels his concern to write on the subject as Homosexuals insufficiency former(a)s in high hostelry to accept them as normal people with normal sexual behavior patterns. They are working hard to change moral, social, and political opinion to be more in line with what they want.They are not content to be by themse lves. They want others to accept them as a philosophically, morally, and ideologically valid. They want to change the opinions of people. In short, they want to change society. in that respectfore, it is necessary to write approximately something that lot so drastically affect the moral fabric of this area (Matt Slick. CARR). Attain also has tangle the same concern for Indian homosexuals. scriptural truth is a permanent existence, so far values keep ever-changing over clip with the multifarious development of the world in an ever changing world of ours. march on, Attain is rightified in his handling the polemic issues openly in drama as in the West the ledger interchangeable Human Events has Justified the arrive that If we are on the overcompensate side of one of the greatest social, oral and spiritual issues of our time, then we subscribe to to dig deep, hold our ground, strengthen our commitment and redouble our efforts, regardless of monetary value or consequence o n an al almost daily basis, the mainstream media assures us of 2 things Just as m either conservatives and VOLVO. ISSUE 6 42 traditionalists were on the harm side of slavery, segregation and womens rights, we are on the wrong side of the gay rights issue today ( Traditional Osteoarthritis Values) Indian gay and lesbian movement gained ground during ass onward and they have commoning lot goals of opting for same sex marital family or kindred a living- gather like whatsoever other heterosexuals. Both of the communities faculty be disapproved by the general Indian mass, yet they differ in terms of the power relation they occupy or the space they could fashion for themselves.Certainly, gays have greater dominance since they belong to masculine gender and India is forever and a day a male prevailing society. Indian lesbians in the ass were part of the libber movement but later on the tie is snapped off for the same reason of societal disapproval and homophobia. The active les bian group like Khakis in Bombay was initially a part of he feminist movement group, but later on it stopped receiving any conference or cooperation from the later. So, rightly lesbianism bed its legitimate place in Indian society given the age old injustice to Indian women.The bribe status of Indian gay and lesbian groups are rooted to the result of south Asian gay and lesbian group publications in Europe and America in ass of which Terrine, Sammie, and Dost were prominent. Whereas, at draft entirely trinity groups in tercet metro cities like Bombay, Madras and Delhi are functional with to the lowest degree number of lesbians or women activists in them. Naturally, the lesbian women stand doubly marginals, first by being women and then by being lesbians.Some of them may unbosom be viewed as the marginals of the marginals who have been forced to be isolated -turned lesbians for being subjected to marital torture, dowry related oppression, sexual violence and so on. Thus, t heir sexual identification as lesbians is the result of their serial of normalization and a shift of political consciousness. The gross normalization of the gay and lesbian conjunction occurs from the duality of home sexuality and heterosexuality.The policy of domination by the majority to minority, or by the efficacious to the powerless has been as old as subjecting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by Adam and thereby film the hubris upon the earth. Such prominent dichotomies are black and White races in America, immigrants and natives in Europe and the US, male/female and so on. Even among women, there are black and white women in the US, upper and lower caste women in India, and other common distinctions are based on class, race union all over the the world.The third wave of feminism has some common causality with the gay-lesbian movement. Women are looked as stereotypical image as married womanhood or as a shadow to a an. Singletons is not accepted as normal in India. Such built in bed forces women to go for a marriage of gimmick as the case happens in the Do the compulsory where Lata and Lapels accepts marriage to maintain the status quo and later on they use the self-sufficiency to pursue their own choices .The gay movements claim of get fair and equitable treatment as citizens of India is quite tenable and in unison VOLVO. 1 with the article 38(1) of the directive principles of state policies of the constitution of India that states The recite shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which Justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national animateness( Directive Principles of domain Policy) .Drama functions as an intellectual sap to the society mirroring the actual happenings on decimal point and this particular drama has fork overn the exact picture of the functioning of all gay people in India. It has aided creating more tolerance and space for them than it was before. Now its common that the gays and lesbians come together from across the country to show their solidarity and a sense f belongingness as a community by bring all possible supports for one another.Currently, India is on a path of new social and economic reformation of which class consciousness is replacing caste. Similarly, dominant social groups and structures based on tradition is giving way to differentiations which is again supported by its own cover in a post modern setting that goes against any fundamental essentialist. On a steaming Night in Iambi shows the intensity of gay hit the sack. The reasonableness of experience is communicated through the ramification setting in which the combination of the silhouette and the indoor present an outline of the condition ofIndian gay people as a square to the reference. One of the prominent techniques of Attain is to create the dramatic tension which highlights the depth and b readth of not only a character but also engages the readers audience into their own attitudinal ruckus to the reality of human experience. Individual talents and dramatic techniques help spinning a mindset of people toward more credenzas through a slow mental process of evolution.It is slow because the impact reverberates into the minds of an audience and the same helps consolidate their rational approach to the vexed issue to be translated into acceptance. Attains themes are traditional Indian society and its public figure is to impact upon the gay, lesbian and on any one who is opposed to heterosexual as defined by society. The play is a realistic picture of society as to how does it affect an individual behavior when one is denied any self expression and hypocrisy is upheld for the sake of tradition.This leads to the visualization of the character against social expectations and the same question sherd in On a embarrassing Night in Iambi is haunted by as the national anthe m, not as the celebrated Jan Gang, Man, but as what Makes A Man A Man (Collected Play 55). This question teems from his quest for existentialist and as important as the national anthem. Samples is enmeshed with a mania of convenience or sham- love for Samples who only makes an attempt of love, but his heart is engaged somewhere else what evokes fragments laments l wasted a year of my life being a house wife for you and all I get is a kick in the assYou beast (56) fragment encountered that Samples was in love with Parkas, but he too was a wounded lover, for Parkas was more afraid of being banished by the society and hence, distanced himself. Shard loved Samples truly as he put on sinner(vermilion) like traditional women ND wore bangles what he broke at a height of emotion, for what he found is now preoccupied because of Parkas. Shard helped him pass on his lost-love with Parkas but hardly could he do that as Parkas kept cropping up to his mind tremendously.Shard could not con ceal his frustration of unrequited love with Samples to deeps catalytic remarks that they must be ski binding to terms of their love -relations If I had a lover, would I be such a bitchy? Immediately, deep gets back to her natural sense of empathy for the female species saying that Mimi can call yourself a dog, call yourself a pig, but never, ever ill-treatment a female (59). Shard, dapple suggesting the guard to be shameless, accepts that the gay people are all shameless, but this comes as his deep protest against such societal taboo upon them.deeply is more of a flat character as she does not undergo any complex changes of life and performs more like filler, yet she is dynamic in her response to a conflicting situation which is expressive of her internal dialogues, put forward as external dialogues and reactions at various points in the dramatic narrative. Thats the reason that she retorts to the example of a bitchy. She o becomes more revelatory in her plea for an acceptanc e for gay people.Hence, she as with Shard stands between the both categories of round and flat characters in its literary sense or rather they are an admixture of these two and hence may be labeled as catalytic character, who help manifest the main or dynamic characters like Samples or act/Parkas. She pleads for the gay mens cause more than her own division of lesbians l am for gay mens cause. Men deserve only men (60). A distinct psychological mooring upon which ones sexual behavior rests upon is set by the dominant discourse of any society.Attain sets a discourse through everyday language and out-on -the- driveway characters through distinct mode of sexism. For example, Deeply and Samples never feel any love for each other in a sense of love- making. Its made undefended when Deeply expresses that if Samples were a woman, they could be in a love and the same is reciprocated in opposite terms and finally Deeply asserts If we were heterosexuals, we would be married (65).Deeply fe els proud of being a woman every time I menstruate, I thank paragon I am a woman, the same word are suggested in a different way by Shard to register his contempt for all those who en any space for gay or lesbians Every time I menstruate, I thank God I am not pregnant (66). Samples in the gathering of his gay and lesbian friends is obsessed with his lost love and legal separation with Parkas and in turn he makes Shards life miserable. In other words, victim turns into victimizer.Parkas, at the initial s tracke of the drama is a victim of social force what is made clear in the words of Samples himself He left me because he was ashamed of our family (69). Samples was visiting a prejudiced psychiatrist to get rid of his imprint but the psychiatrist plunged him into a worse situation out of his own abomination of such gay people, for he believed only in evil therapy which brought further depression to Samples as he VOLVO. 1 45 recalls Until he said I would never be happy as a gay man.It is impossible to change society, he said, but it may be possible for you to reorient yourself (69). Arrant termed the doctors eccentric and homophobic view as primitive idea. In fact, the society is the great breastwork what Attains dramatic technique and making of the characters unravel as an anti-venom against a venom of hatred for all these people who are trundling to be accepted as human beings and human hauteur in the society. bunny girl, the TV actor, too has experienced the same treatment of homophobia and non acceptance as gay.While all the gay friends assembled at Sampless residence to sympathize with the tragedy of Samples, Sheehan music was pouring in. They show their antipathy by turning on CD player, for they are anguished as no such celebrations are solemnizes for them and hence, such rituals or music is, filthy hot air (73) for them. Here, one contrast is shown one marriage is overtaking on with social gaiety amid color in and USIA strike down stairs an d on a higher floor apartment is witnessing a break up of a gay marriage with the chanting of parallel mantra This city and God are witness to my vow , I break all ties with Parkas(73). fill out for each other for these two friends is so strong that Samples could not dissipate up the Joint buck with Parkas symbolizing their conjugal relationship. From the episode of separation between these two friends begins the tragedy of rule book, a dear sister of Samples himself. She was introduced to operation by Samples since four years.The gathering at Sampless flat upstairs in Act l, is the hot bed of making ND breakout all gay relationship and the trauma they bear silently passim their lives. Koran came to know for the first time in that gathering that her crony is being treated for depression. When she goes to the bedroom to unpack her belongings she is visible to the audience that she was placing a photograph on the side table indicating not only her knowledge of the relationshi p of her brother, but also as a powerful symbol of her ensuing tragic course of life.All the three Acts are three in one. Psychic turmoil of all the characters, their pleasure and pain, frustration and bourgeon against the society are balanced placing them in the silhouette and the face up show of the stage setting. This Juxtaposition of interior and the exterior or the front and the back stage against each other is to create a deep upshot on the audience s mind as to the conflicts that goes in their consciousness, yet how they struggle to reconcile with the stern reality of society- a reality disjoint from free expression and fair play.Samples the main character of the drama is brought in the Act II with brilliant dramatic technique in which he walks by Deed at the lonely park at round 8. 30 PM, yet not visible to the audience. He has throttled a some pegs to get rid of his depression and he divulges the fact of his coming to the park as to let someone know his story before he ends his life by committing suicide. Someone exactly listens to his story (history? ) who, in turn, is the exact cause of such wretched condition of life.Social paranoia is what troubled Deed as he was a little more reactive to peoples suspicion approximately his gay relationship with Parkas that turned him into hyper vigilant against any social threat from any quarter. Samples struggles or profile of such relationship against the artifice sensibility of average people They cant see us at all, although we can see them. They must be blind (81). Then, Samples asks Deed to close his eyes, stand behind him and kiss gently to discover Can you see how beautiful we are (82)?Through long break of serve and silence after this warmth of feeling of the two old lovers, fade light, slow music and then Sampless appearance on front show of the stage to Join the gathering of his friends of Act I while the light reappears to create a sense of change of time and space, is a reliant technique of creating two distinct mental spaces into the minds of the audience to barrack the subtlety of feelings of these two men off the glare of the everyday world in their minds and the dreary intercourse of the same world under the visibility of everyone in which hardly they could feel proud of and contented with what they are all about.Surreptitious orchestration of pause and silence, music, light are done to heighten their rush of the stream consciousness natural to all human beings. Social pressure is so enormous that Deeds psychiatrist could convince him that is love is the work of a devil and through regular church tone ending alone could absolve him of such devil. Samples also believes it and so he wants to bar showing the photograph of their love making to his own sister, Koran, who is now going to be married with Deed. On the other hand Arrant, an European immigrant, is contrasted with his Indian counter parts of gay community.In Europe he has greater freedom of being honest to his sexual behavior but in India he might not expect the same degree of freedom There is such a thing as honesty. Or maybe it is the guild you keep. Or maybe the company I am in (88). Further Arrant is perturbed seeing closet homosexuals in India and he regrets being an Indian on grounds of his vantage point of Western immigration. His record to Bunny echoes the shifting subject of spirituality in Indian society l cant seem to be both Indian and gay. But you are simply ashamed. All this sham is to cover up your shame (88).The hypocrisy of Indian society is again substantiated through Bunnys character. He belongs to Sikh community, yet he avoids wearing a turban as he would be subjected to stereotypical role of being a Seaward . The characters are designed skillfully representing every fount and category of India gay and lesbian people on stage in an effort to producing a gay ambiance within an hour or two to show what India is passing through presently. The real plight of thi s marginals community is made clear in exact terms through Deeplys words that it is more fear of being ostracizes or a subject of homophobia than any stigma of shame attached to them.Basic human dignity is at stake for all these people in general. Being woman and lesbian is more pathetic in India when Deeply makes it pretty earthshaking and clear Its not shame, is it? With us? Its fear Of the VOLVO. 1 47 corners we will be pushed into where we dont want to be (89). Attains effort has been to widen this corner of Indian society to make it at least as large as to go these innocent Boniface citizens of a sovereign country, known for its age old tolerance and universal acceptance.Of course, India as a nation could be draw in no better terms than the first address at the world parliament of religion at Chicago by Swami inoculate l am proud to belong to a nation which has shelter the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth (Vaccinated 3). Naturally, At tain has every reason as an artist to reinstate the glory of this great nation by upholding the cause of the marginal people toward greater tolerance and acceptance for all. Equally fluctuate is the condition of Shards mind after being garbled from Samples.He too wants to force his way to be straight , to be a real man only to be accepted by the society, even though he knows deep down within himself that he is as gay as a goose and seeks the advice of a psychiatrist only to invite a fresh misery in his life. Koran still thinks wishfully of a happy bond between her brother and Shard as she recalls her own life of solitude after divorce. She also warns about the gravity of misery a woman undergoes in this country Just because of male dominance.Shards decision to act like a straight might shatter a womans life And think of the poor woman. You may end up marrying Just as a cover up for your shame (102). Bunny accepts that he is a gay man and keeps deceiving people through his constant denial and in the process all such gay people vacillates between the world of reality and the world of sham, finding no permanent anchor to embrace with voluminousness of heart. The last scene of Act Ill lays bare the absurdity of life of all the gay people on stage who are case of entire gay community.Deed is the most pathetic character not only for Deeply, but also for every viewer or reader the way he has shattered the lives of Samples and Koran. He also could not remain repellent to this wretched condition of life as a closure look and a psychological delving into his character reveals that he is more sinned against than sinning. His very function of marrying Koran was a matter of convenience so that he could continue his love for Samples without any suspicion from any one. Certainly, in the process he could save one life at the cost of the other and the other is a woman.Koran, while looking at the photograph of Deed and Samples hugging each other, cries out through the open window leading to the unmindful blue sky of Bombay. She must have felt the void of the sky more than anyone else who has not passed through the tormenting labyrinth of life like hers. She is that lower-ranking woman, conditioned to tolerate torture and untold suffering. She remembers her past life as to how she used to be beaten up by her husband ND still she continued to accept and digest all these as she believed and felt that he loved her l felt he loved me ample to want to hurt me (107).She questions Deeds motive of marrying her and the answer comes out as her dramatic monologue that all such gay people behave in a stereotypical manner VOLVO. 1 as we Just dont know what else to be (107) The imagery of the photograph with Deed as the best couple on the floor that appears in her mind matches with the vacuous blue sky to condense the absurdity of her life. The explosion of fireworks, colored sights and loud screams of delight from the ground floor heightens the inner turmoil of a viciousdest thought, perhaps churning an existential dilemma in her mind.Deed in utter shame and disgust for life is completely broken down Where do I begin? How do I begin to live (111)? All the characters on stage are suddenly plunged into existential dilemma in the world of uncertainty and absurdity of life. The height of the dilemma in the last scene is accentuated by more firecrackers and lusty yells from the wedding below. Lights are slowly fading to beckon the void while the pictures of Deed and Samples and Koran ND Samples are slowly evanescent from the minds of the audience before it is completely engulfed into darkness.The stage setting and delineation of the pathos of the characters, here, Just reminds one the most exact definition of short story by Arbitration tagre Simple events of life happy or sad, Some sad strings from the train of forgetfulness, Not fraught with heavy descriptions, Not displace with events, No advice, no philosophy Only the feeling that the story is not yet over Although there is no more to read (Bangladesh) deduction The queer characters representing both the gays and lesbians of urban diddle class India undergo a tortuous Journey of visualization due to homophobia and social boycott of such people.Attain has been true to his calling as a dramatist to show their painful odyssey of modern India, yet how the issue escapes the thinking mass to be considered for an acceptance and a right place in the society. Its rightly an odyssey as the victims at times turn into victimizers thereby bringing upon them a series of miseries, little knowing what exactly ails them. The dramatist has won the heart of every one by bringing this cause of ailment, the whole truth of it, on stage with all sincerity of purpose.