Queerphobia, the biggest STIGMA!
Dear friends, I hope you all are in the pink of your health. It should be brought to your notice that June every year is regarded as the Pride Month all over the world. It is indeed known that we celebrate special days all round the year to praise and commemorate it only on those occasions and forget the very meaning of it during the rest of the days. Though the time it took to properly decriminalize homosexuality in our country and normalize the alternative sexualities and genders were long, the plight faced by the queer people are quite longer still. The LGBTQIA+ people who already face bias, attacks and bullies simply for who they are or whom they love are now experiencing heightened stigma as a result of the virus. Queerphobia has its roots from almost all the sections of the society starting from within our homes to the educational institutions to the workplaces. We incorporate queerphobia into the minds of our children from an early age and thus there exists staggering amou...