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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The past decade has rendered salient changes to what it means to be a man who has sex with other men (MSM) in India. A collision of indigenous, post-colonial, and modern Western forces, along with a rapid but disparate rise in wealth and power, has fostered substantial transformations in social and sexual mores. The recent repeal of Penal Code 377 and the first male to male "Bollywood kiss" are tangible manifestations of the empowerment that these transformations have brought. Yet Western thought and tradition surrounding homosexual identity and behavior, including the heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy itself, is increasingly recognized as a poor framework for understanding male sexuality in India. The rountable discussion, "Sexual Identity, Health and Stigma in India: Traditional Statuses and Western Influences," seeks to further current discourse around the forces that shape the lives of MSM in India today by addressing critical influences relevant to male sexual identity and health in modern India. An international panel of distinguished scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, sociology, economics and medicine met on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. CDT (8:00 p.m. IST) for a lively discussion hosted by the University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The past decade has rendered salient changes to what it means to be a man who has sex with other men (MSM) in India. A collision of indigenous, post-colonial, and modern Western forces, along with a rapid but disparate rise in wealth and power, has fostered substantial transformations in social and sexual mores. The recent repeal of Penal Code 377 and the first male to male "Bollywood kiss" are tangible manifestations of the empowerment that these transformations have brought. Yet Western thought and tradition surrounding homosexual identity and behavior, including the heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy itself, is increasingly recognized as a poor framework for understanding male sexuality in India. The rountable discussion, "Sexual Identity, Health and Stigma in India: Traditional Statuses and Western Influences," seeks to further current discourse around the forces that shape the lives of MSM in India today by addressing critical influences relevant to male sexual identity and health in modern India. An international panel of distinguished scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, sociology, economics and medicine met on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. CDT (8:00 p.m. IST) for a lively discussion hosted by the University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The past decade has rendered salient changes to what it means to be a man who has sex with other men (MSM) in India. A collision of indigenous, post-colonial, and modern Western forces, along with a rapid but disparate rise in wealth and power, has fostered substantial transformations in social and sexual mores. The recent repeal of Penal Code 377 and the first male to male "Bollywood kiss" are tangible manifestations of the empowerment that these transformations have brought. Yet Western thought and tradition surrounding homosexual identity and behavior, including the heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy itself, is increasingly recognized as a poor framework for understanding male sexuality in India. The rountable discussion, "Sexual Identity, Health and Stigma in India: Traditional Statuses and Western Influences," seeks to further current discourse around the forces that shape the lives of MSM in India today by addressing critical influences relevant to male sexual identity and health in modern India. An international panel of distinguished scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, sociology, economics and medicine met on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. CDT (8:00 p.m. IST) for a lively discussion hosted by the University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The past decade has rendered salient changes to what it means to be a man who has sex with other men (MSM) in India. A collision of indigenous, post-colonial, and modern Western forces, along with a rapid but disparate rise in wealth and power, has fostered substantial transformations in social and sexual mores. The recent repeal of Penal Code 377 and the first male to male "Bollywood kiss" are tangible manifestations of the empowerment that these transformations have brought. Yet Western thought and tradition surrounding homosexual identity and behavior, including the heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy itself, is increasingly recognized as a poor framework for understanding male sexuality in India. The rountable discussion, "Sexual Identity, Health and Stigma in India: Traditional Statuses and Western Influences," seeks to further current discourse around the forces that shape the lives of MSM in India today by addressing critical influences relevant to male sexual identity and health in modern India. An international panel of distinguished scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, sociology, economics and medicine met on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. CDT (8:00 p.m. IST) for a lively discussion hosted by the University of Chicago.