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Health Minister’s diagnosis
“Homosexuality is a disease” creates furore

During his 2007 visit to the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted with howls and boos by the Columbia University students when he declared, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” Back home, none other than the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad devised a better way of self- denial of this kind when he declared men having sex with men (MSM) is not only a ‘disease’ but also ‘unnatural’. Incidentally, if our health minister has made the diagnosis, our celebrated Yoga Guru, Baba Ramdev, never shy of quoting Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas to support his stand, contends the ‘disease’ is curable. While the happy curative duo are busy eradicating the ‘disease’ a few anomalies have cropped up!

Amidst this over-amplified celebratory declaration of the disease and the cure, the patient, already on-the-defensive gay community of India, which has struggled to decriminalise homosexuality for years, is flabbergasted. This is despite the fact that the health minister is rather protective about his ‘patients’ because he also added,” This disease has come to India from foreign shores,” which, in a sense proves innocence of the Indian gay community, who got the contagion from other bad countries of the west. These statements were made by the minister on Monday last. Since the minister is a qualified doctor he should know that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of recognised mental disorders in 1973 and the World Health Organisation followed suit in 1992. So, biological or psychological, homosexuality is not a disease.

Sex is a means to an end, not an end in itself. In Darwinian terms it is used for evolutionary purpose. From this perspective, same-sex relationships should be selected out. But, they are not. Jerome Goldstein, director of the San Francisco Clinical Research Centre, concluded after a study that sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, but is primarily neurobiological at birth. He also made evidences available of other animals from the animal kingdom like birds, bees, penguins and albatrosses who are found to have life-long same- sex relationships. The study concludes, homosexuality is not curable since it is not a disease. Our minister should know!