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13 Jan 2015

India’s Goa state plans special centers to make LGBT youth ‘normal’

Goa, India’s top tourist destination known for its beaches, is to set up special centers to administer medicines to LGBT youth in order to make them "normal."

 

Goa, India’s top tourist destination known for its beaches, is to set up special centers to administer medicines to LGBT youth in order to make them "normal."
Media reported Goa’s Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar as saying that his government is to set up centers for LGBT youth where they will be trained and administered medicine in order to make them "normal.”
"We will make them normal. We will have a centre for them. Like Alcoholic Anonymous centers, we will have centers" Tawadkar was quoted as saying while speaking to reporters Jan 12 on the sidelines of an event held in the state capital Panaji to launch Goa State Youth Policy 2015 on the occasion of National Youth Day. 
The policy lists "stigmatized" LGBT youth as one of the many "target groups" that require" focused attention."
When asked by reporters as to the exact nature of these centers that the government was proposing to set up for LGBT youth, Tawadkar said: "We will train them and (give them) medicines too."
A detailed survey would also be carried out among the state’s LGBT community so that their problems could be specifically addressed, Tawadkar said pointing out that this would be similar to other "target groups" such as juvenile offenders, young drug addicts, migrant and other disadvantaged youth.
The government in Goa like that of the Indian federal government is ruled by the anti-gay Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that has opposed any move to nullify the Supreme Court’s re-criminalizing of consensual same-sex relations. 
The party has publicly said it would not scrap Section 377, the colonial-era law that defines same-sex relations as “unnatural” and punishable by up to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court in January last year chose to retain the law.
Goa, a former Portuguese colony for 450 years is now India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. It the country’s richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the national average and is visited by large numbers of international and domestic tourists for its beaches, heritage architecture, cheap alcohol prices and Portuguese-Indian cuisine.
For many in India and abroad, Goa with its multitude of picturesque beaches and tropical landscape on the western Indian coast remains the country’s beach party capital and where public displays of affection are socially possible without harassment unlike other parts of mostly conservative India.
Tourism is Goa's primary industry handling 12 percent of all foreign tourist arrivals in India.

 

Media reported Goa’s Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar as saying that his government is to set up centers for LGBT youth where they will be trained and administered medicine in order to make them "normal.”

"We will make them normal. We will have a centre for them. Like Alcoholic Anonymous centers, we will have centers" Tawadkar was quoted as saying while speaking to reporters Jan 12 on the sidelines of an event held in the state capital Panaji to launch Goa State Youth Policy 2015 on the occasion of National Youth Day. 

The policy lists "stigmatized" LGBT youth as one of the many "target groups" that require" focused attention."

When asked by reporters as to the exact nature of these centers that the government was proposing to set up for LGBT youth, Tawadkar said: "We will train them and (give them) medicines too."

A detailed survey would also be carried out among the state’s LGBT community so that their problems could be specifically addressed, Tawadkar said pointing out that this would be similar to other "target groups" such as juvenile offenders, young drug addicts, migrant and other disadvantaged youth.

The government in Goa like that of the Indian federal government is ruled by the anti-gay Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that has opposed any move to nullify the Supreme Court’s re-criminalizing of consensual same-sex relations. 

The party has publicly said it would not scrap Section 377, the colonial-era law that defines same-sex relations as “unnatural” and punishable by up to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court in January last year chose to retain the law.

Goa, a former Portuguese colony for 450 years is now India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. It is the country’s richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the national average and is visited by large numbers of international and domestic tourists for its beaches, heritage architecture, cheap alcohol prices and Portuguese-Indian cuisine.

For many in India and abroad, Goa with its multitude of picturesque beaches and tropical landscape on the western Indian coast, remains the country’s beach party capital and where public displays of affection are socially possible without harassment unlike other parts of mostly conservative India.

Tourism is Goa's primary industry handling 12 percent of all foreign tourist arrivals in India.

Reader's Comments

1. 2015-01-13 01:59  
Alcohol or drug addiction are curable whist sexuality is not someone send this man a psychology book so he can work that out. The truth is they don't care about science and truth they only want to force people to comply with the conventions of the Hindu religion.
2. 2015-01-14 00:17  
Idiots in power. That's not even news.
3. 2015-01-14 02:12  
http://scroll.in/article/700203/Goa-minister's-homophobic-remarks:-The-real-diseases-are-copy-paste-and-foot-in-mouth
4. 2015-01-14 02:19  
and

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/laws-criminalising-gay-rights-are-violative-fundamental-rights-says-un-chief-ban-ki-moon-620194
5. 2015-01-14 05:19  
and (sorry for multiple postings)

https://in.news.yahoo.com/homosexuality-a-natural-gift--says-goa-cm-parsekar-103255688.html
6. 2015-01-15 21:42  
Oh, there is medicine to change the sexual orientation of a person? Great! I want a bottle of it! I'll give it to my straight neighbour, he's so cute! :-D
7. 2015-01-15 22:25  
Is there no educated people in that state? How ridiculous and primitive!
8. 2015-01-15 23:20  
Why do idiots insist on "curing" sexual preference? They should be cured of ignorance! This saddens me to hear that in 2015 people still have this narrow idea of things...
Comment #9 was deleted by its author on 2015-01-17 23:41
10. 2015-01-16 04:58  
Wonder if we could set up special centres Internationally, for visiting Goan Diplomats - and give them training and medication to make them more "tolerant"?
11. 2015-01-16 10:17  
First off, drug and alcohol addiction is not "curable." You can fight the urges for the rest of your life, but there is no cure. The same is for being homosexual, however homosexuality is not a disease. You are BORN with your sexuality and it is immutable. You can choose to fight it . You can choose to ignore it. You can even get married (to a woman) and even have children as many do, but it will ALWAYS be there. You can PRETEND to be normal, but you CAN'T BE CURED. It is what it is, period.

You can, however, cure IGNORANCE and INTOLERANCE. All it takes is understanding and facts. What are all of these people so afraid of anyway?

There are more important issues in this world to deal with than peoples sexual preferences.

We were put here on this planet to live in peace and harmony, yet all we seem to do is judge each other and wage war on each other.

Wake up and smell the frickin' coffee!!!
12. 2015-01-16 14:48  
There are no medicines to cure homophobia (nor to change orientation, though I shudder to think what torture and torment these folks have in store for their victims).
13. 2015-01-16 15:27  
This is always so hilarious. It's always the religious heterosexual conservative saying I have medicine(drugs) that can make you like me. Really, why would any gay man and woman or even a bi-sexual want to be remotely like this guy. Gay people the world over know from an early age they are attracted to the same sex. I'm sure that those who may end up in this fiasco will become traumatized and the people who are doing this will say.."See we have cured them and now they do not want to enjoy sex with anyone".
14. 2015-01-16 21:48  
Gay people are more 'normal' than the straights....as our life are less problematic if given no prejudice from the society. For example, we do not cause ourselves family problems such as birth to children and difficulties of bringing them up properly or brain-washing them. Wrongly up-bringing of kids by these straight people have caused a lot of disasters to the world.

All major problems or disasters were caused by the straight people...can you state in our history any disaster was caused by the gays?
Comment edited on 2015-01-16 21:49:13
15. 2015-01-17 00:43  
Another article on 'UN Secretary-General criticising India for its anti-gay law' has disappeared suddenly.....

Problems of Fridae.com?
16. 2015-01-17 16:10  
...plans special centers to make LGBT youth ‘normal’...

The ONLY way of doing this is to allow gay marriage, then everyone will be treated equally and LGBT youth will behave 'normal'. They will look for their same-sex boyfriend or girlfriend and get marry, and have a happy 'normal' family.
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