CHALLENGES FACED BY THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY- A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN INDIA AND AUSTRALIA

The challenges of sexual minorities are often underscored in the world and taken a backseat. But to effectively use
Gender mainstreaming as a base for policy work, we need to change that. This article broadly investigates the
challenges faced by the LGBTQ community in a comparative format. Giving due weightage to the global perspective,
this article tries to analyse the challenges faced by a developing country, India and a developed country, Australia.
The aim of the study, simply speaking, is to derive at what stage we in the liberalization of LGBTQ are compared to a
developed country, what are the historical factors that have influenced the progress, if any. The researcher took up
this topic because as a citizen in this democratic country, it is incredibly concerning to hear about the challenges that
the LGBTQ have to face and a positive change in the country’s mindset is the need of the hour. The researcher has
employed doctrinal methodology in the research paper to arrive at the results. After carefully dissecting the historical
background, the challenges and the subsequent suggestions of the LGBTQ community in India and Australia, the
researcher has arrived at some results. India, currently, is at the initial stages of reforms in the LGBTQ community as
compared to Australia and some of it can be attributed to the different perspectives of a culturally and religiously rich
India. In terms of awareness and acceptance rate, India is quite low. Most of the challenges faced by the community
are due to lack of awareness and knowledge. But to give credit when it’s due, India has come a long way and fought
a hard battle. It isn’t going to be easy in the coming future but what we need is an educated and upstanding youth
community. The reforms will follow accordingly.