We have often heard about this phrase “Divide and rule” and this holds true across generations as this is timeless. It applies to everything. Its easier to conquer the weaker, the one who is alone and scared than to fight an army and this was understood by some of the biggest tyrants the earth has witnessed. Even World War was result of countries being divided while United Nations was the result of their unity. My point of starting this article with the reference to this is to emphasize on the fact that how weak we become when we face discrimination, when we are left alone and that leads to chaos.
Love is Universal and it is not entrapped in the cell of age, race, gender or culture but all of the factors I just mentioned is a reason that has been used against love and against lovers over the years because according to the society that we created there are rules to love and you are allowed to love someone only when the person matches all the criteria. If it doesn’t match then its not love, it’s a disease. A disease which needs to be cured by taking matters in the court named “society” with judges who writes their own rule to “rule” over others.
In this article to honor the LGBTQ+ community, we will only address the issue in terms of gender. It is very important to remember that we are not sick if our sexual orientation is towards the same gender and also its not in our control as its organic and not an illness. This is not new and has existed in this world since the dawn of time when human beings have fully evolved as we are capable of processing emotions unlike any other mammals.
Throughout history we saw that they were treated so badly only because the love someone, they were abused, killed and even deemed possessed or sick and even labelled sexual predator. Imagine, what that must have done to someone’s life. n 1791, Revolutionary France (and Andorra) adopted a new penal code which no longer criminalized sodomy. France thus became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults. LGBTQ+ Rights in the United States have evolved significantly over time. Prior to 1962, all 50 states criminalized same-sex sexual activity, but by 2015, LGBT Americans had won the right to marry nationwide. On 6 September 2018, consensual gay sex was legalized by India’s Supreme Court. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), dating back to 1861, makes sexual activities “against the order of nature” punishable by law and carries a life sentence. Can you imagine how many people were unhappy, isolated, punished and killed before section 377 in India. We are all different and love different things but imagine if we were punished for every choice in our life how our life would have been and yet for 100s of years we did the same to someone’s brother, mother, children or Lover. Where tyrants ruled over them and drew pleasure for their sadist mindset for years dividing them by labelling them different leading them to fight for their rights whereas we are all born the same and what they choose is not even hurting anyone as right to choose and personal liberty comes from birth. It is sad it took so many years for us to understand it and countless hours of people fighting for us as we are not different when it comes to love, when it comes to inclusivity and inclusivity is power.
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