The gay studies has emerged as the strong area of Cultural Studies. All modern writers, media houses, journals, and urban society make room for such studies. Thus, the world of theatre is also achieving great success through various performances as far as the gay issues and rights are concerned. The gay is construed doubly marginalized since they are not accepted by the heteronormative society. Moreover, they are sidelined from the community of eunuchs because they are denied idenitification with the 'hijras'.
In such circumstances, the gay and their issues remain closeted. Thier issues, suffering, pain, angst, agony,etc. remain invisible in the mainstream world. This makes sufficient ground for the proper attention to thier surreptitious life and complex problems. This is the need of time to give a voice to their rights and represent their experiences in writings of various types. The role of theatre sounds very crucial in this direction since it has great potential to communicate such message to society through live audience.
Heterosexuality is the normal go of human race, but we have 'kinner' from very long time in this race as our ancient texts tell. But this gay community, I think, has emerged in recent times. Also, as per a general opinion, this community is the result of unnecessary freedom we get in so called advanced societies where no one cares for no one. In old social structure, we usually had a combined family and a group of known faces called village or society or community. There were untold rules which were supposed to be followed by a charactered or civilized person. But as individual migration increased this sense of obeying those untold rules has been diminishing.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you would have found even a single gay in your home village.