UN chief slams India after official proposes building centres to 'make gays normal'
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has accused India of fomenting intolerance with its ban on gay sex amid uproar over a ruling party minister’s plans to make homosexuals “normal”.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has accused India of fomenting intolerance with its ban on gay sex amid uproar over a ruling party minister’s plans to make homosexuals “normal”.
Ban’s comments came on the same day that a state minister from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party announced his plans to make gays “normal” in the coastal resort state of Goa.
Ramesh Tawadkar, sports and youth affairs minister in Goa’s state government, told reporters that he planned to open up centres on the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous to treat them.
“We will make them normal. We will have centres for them, like Alcoholic Anonymous centres,” Tawadkar said, adding that the state would “train them and give them medicines too”.
Speaking on a visit to the capital New Delhi, Ban said he “staunchly opposed the criminalisation of homosexuality” referring to India’s colonial-era law that prohibits gay sex.
