INDIAN American researcher Pamela Roy raised quite a few eyebrows at a seminar during a North American Bengali Convention here by openly debating homosexuality among Canadian-born Indian youth.
The first second-generation Indian woman in North America to declare her lesbian orientation a few years ago, Michigan University researcher Roy wanted to fathom changes in sexual outlook among second-generation Bengalis here.
To her surprise, Roy found a few boys and girls talking openly about their sexual orientation.
"I was happy that a couple of them revealed their gay and lesbian orientation in front of everybody. There is definitely some change in attitude among second-generation Indians," the Kolkota-born Roy, who came to Canada when she was just one, said.
She felt that in time all cultures, including India, would embrace gay and lesbian people.
In the photograph: Gay marriage in California
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