Gender Based Violence among the LGBT Community

Abstract

Abstract: Gender based violence is really affecting specifically to LGBTIQ people who do not fit within the narrow parameters of the assigned societal gender based roles and status across the globe. As India is following a traditional culture, perceptions of gender roles and appearances, toxic masculinity and other factors, lead to shocking violence among the LGBT community. Though often the instances of violence that have received media attention and have been the focus of public discourse have centred on cisgender heterosexual relationships, more conversations are also emerging around the impact of GBV on LGBTIQ people as well. Gender Based Violence against LGBTIQ people is exacerbated by the existence and legacy of colonial-era so-called buggery laws, which not only criminalize same-sex relations, but perpetuate negative societal attitudes towards LGBTIQ people, and result in LGBTIQ victims of Gender Based Violence not reporting or seeking help for fear of outing, or even imprisonment. For seeking the justices from this Gender Based Violence they fight since long time back i.e. 2001 and in India section 377 has implemented in 2018, after a long fight by LGBT community for their rights.