19:59, 1 JUNE 2015 BY RUTH HALKON
Indian parents are so desperate to have straight children they
are encouraging cousins, brothers and even mothers to rape their
children, an LBGT organisation has warned
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Rape: A homosexual girl who was in a relationship with another
woman was also raped by her cousin in a bid to cure her
A gay boy was raped by his own mother in a misguided attempt
to cure him of homosexuality.
An Indian LBGT organisation has warned that parents are so
desperate to have straight children they are encouraging cousins,
brothers and even mothers to rape their children.
Gay sex is punishable with up to ten years
in prison in India, meaning anxious
families feel they have no choice but to carry out the "corrective
rapes".
A homosexual girl who was in a relationship with another woman
was also raped by her cousin in a bid to cure her.
A string of victims have sought help from the LGBT Collective
in Telangana, which reported fifteen cases within the past five
years.
But Vyjayanti Mogli who works in the southern Indian
organisation's crisis intervention team said there were many more
victims who were scared to speak out.
He told the Times of India: "We are sure there are many more
cases, but they go unreported,
"We came across such cases not because they reported the rape,
but because they sought help to flee their homes."
Google Rape: The attack took place in Telengana
He said many victims wanted to block out memories of being
attacked by a loved one so preferred to try and forget and cut off
contact with their families rather than report it.
Shockingly, the parents are normally aware of the rape and
have handpicked a family member, normally a cousin but also
brother, father or mother, for the task.
Mr Mogli said in some communities in South India, marriages
amongst cousins are common and parents decide which relation their
daughter will be married to soon after her birth.
If this girl is discovered to be in a relationship with
another girl, "elders in the family believe having sex with the
'would-be', even if it's forcibly, will cure her", he added.
The case of the teenage boy raped by his own mother was one of
the many "shocking real life instances" from Bangalore that
Hyderabadi filmmaker Deepthi Tadanki is dramatising in his upcoming
film, Satyavati.
He said no one wanted to talk about corrective rape and his
attempts he had tried reaching out to NGOs for information, only to
be rebuffed.
He said: "Many rapes go unreported in India, and it will take
years before something like corrective rape even gets talked about.
That's why I wanted to tell this story."
In 2013 the Indian Supreme Court reinstated a colonial law
which banned gay sex.
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LGBT是女同性恋者（Lesbians）、男同性恋者（Gays）、双性恋者（Bisexuals）与跨性别者（Transgender）的英文首字母缩略字。1990年代，由于“同性恋社群”一词无法完整体现相关群体，“LGBT”一词便应运而生、并逐渐普及。
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