Stories of family acceptance that you see on TV and other media are more of an urban phenomenon.'Įven in educated urban India, suicides by lesbian women make headlines every year. Refusal to marry brings more physical abuse. “Village medics and babas often prescribe rape to cure lesbians of homosexuality. “Ambedkar thought of the village as a unit of violence and that is most true for LGBT issues,' she says. Ambedkar when talking of the rural socioeconomic environment. Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli, a transwoman LGBT activist and public policy scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, who has openly spoken about her abuse at school, says that lesbian women and transmen in rural areas end up at the bottom of the hierarchy when it comes to basic human rights within the unit of family and village. In other parts, lesbian women are subjected to family-sanctioned corrective rapes, which are often perpetrated by their own family members.
