Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed their deep concern over the recent chaos about the incident of same-sex love and marriage of two homosexual lesbian teenagers came to light in Lakshipur district.
BIHR and
JusticeMakers of Bangladesh strongly demanded that the accused persons involved
in endangering the personal safety and security of the sexual minority
lesbian teenagers in Sadar Upazila of Lakshipur district by exposing
their love and marriage incidents should be quickly identified, arrested, and
impartially investigated, and the perpetrators should be given exemplary
punishment at the end of a speedy and transparent trial process. .
According to the news published on 16 September 2022 in the online newspaper Rising BD.com, it is known that there has been a commotion over the ' homosexual love ' of two girls in Lakshmipur. After getting married in 2021 through a notary public, information was leaked after one and a half years. Discussion and criticism is going on in the area.
According
to local sources, they had a love relationship for about 5 years. Currently,
the families of both the girls are spending their days in deep worry. According
to family sources, a love relationship developed between the SSC examinee and
the student of Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila on the basis of kinship.
On July
8, 2021, they got married through a notary public using pseudonyms. After
that, they
continued their conjugal life secretly for
one and a half years. Last Tuesday (September 13) one of the girls family fix the date for marry. But
before that, someone else sent a copy of the marriage affidavit to the groom's
house. It breaks one's marriage. Later the locals and family members came to
know about it.
A lesbian
teenager says, 'First we were friends and
then we love each
other. Later we got married
through affidavit to perpetuate the relationship. In this regard, the local UP
chairman said, "It is a very disgraceful and reprehensible incident.
Action will be taken through discussion. '
BIHR and
JusticeMakers Bangladesh Secretary General and LGBT rights
activist Advocate Shahanur Islam has expressed deep concern over
the revelation of same-sex love and marriage of sexual minority homosexual lesbian teenagers.
Advocate
Shahanur Islam feels that there is a possibility of destroying the lives of the
homosexual teenagers now that the same-sex love and marriage of the sexual
minorities are revealed in public. Advocate Shahanur Islam said that how the
girls protect themselves from the homophobic people of Bangladesh and continue their future lives is now a matter of concern.
At the
same time, by respecting the sexual orientation of sexual minority gay
teenagers, Advocate Shahanur Islam urges to the police administration to take necessary
measures so that they can continue their love and married life free from all
kinds of discrimination, deprivation, fear and violence from their families,
society and the state.
Advocate
Shahnur Islam believes that the love and marriage of a
sexual minority homosexual lesbian girl in Lakshipur is not an isolated incident
in Bangladesh, but there are sexual minority homosexual lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are existing all over Bangladesh.
Due to the existing Section 377 of the Bangladesh Penal Code that criminalized
homosexuality in Bangladesh, social unacceptance and
intolerance, state persecution and the ongoing discrimination, physical assault, threats, death threats, assassinations, and
other violence against LGBT people, they are still facing remains them hidden
from the society, Advocate Shahanur Islam thinks.
Above
all, Advocate Shahanur Islam urged the relevant authorities to enact laws for
the protection of sexual minorities’ homosexual lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders by abolishing Section 377 of the
Bangladesh Penal Code as
well as constitutional recognition.
With Best
Regards
Advocate Shahanur Islam
Secretary General
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Cell: 01720308080
email: bihr.bd@gmail.com, justicemakersbd@gmail.com
www.bihrbd.blogspot.com, www.justicemakersbt.blogspot.com
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