South Asian culture is not uniquely homophobic compared to other cultures. Is this because she is from India and Indian culture is uniquely homophobic? Yes and no.
I shouldn’t be too shocked, she always treated my gay friends as her own, but she’s also always been a little bit homophobic. I was surprised last night when my mom said they should put Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei in jail for what they did to Tyler Clementi, a young man who took his life last week after Ravi and Wei spread video of him engaging sexually with another man on the internet.
