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UC Browser LGBT Awareness Survey Report released

September 22, 2014

LGBT community or GLBT community commonly refers to gay community. Supreme court of India has recently made it mandatory to include this community as 3rdtype of gender. UC browser is an internet browser for developed for the mobile phones by UCweb. It was first used in china and later was adopted by India. UC browser has conducted survey on LGBT for creating awareness about this community.

UC Browser LGBT Awareness Survey

The aim of the survey is to get a comparable which will help for the understanding of how gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are living in the society.

According to section 377 of Indian penal code in 1860 the intercourse of homosexuals is considered to be offensive and would lead life imprisonment. In 2013 Supreme court of India has overturned the decision lower court against the objection of section 377.

UC browser has conducted a survey on creating awareness on LGBT across the India. This survey was available for the Indian residents of the age 18 and above. A total of 6237 respondents participated in this survey, including 4991 male, 1222 female and 24 respondents who did not disclose their gender. While only 32.9% respondents are aware of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code which criminalizes sexual activities “against the order of nature”, a slightly higher 41.8% of respondents know what LGBT stands for.

The survey asked a range of questions about LGBT people’s experiences including:

public perceptions and responses tohomophobia and/or transphobia;
discrimination;
rights awareness;
safe environment;
violence and harassment;
the social context of being an LGBT person;
personal characteristics, including age and income group.

The major problem is that there is no enough knowledge among the citizens of India. Half of the people who attempted the survey has no idea of the term LGBT. The problem comes right from the schooling as they are not providing the adequate knowledge about the LGBT and their rights. In this web survey, the respondents are self-selected as they volunteered to participate in the survey.

This may exclude respondents who are less motivated to take part, introduce a potential for bias in the results if the sample is far from being representative of the surveyed populations a whole. The people who have given the answers might have given correctly because they volunteered themselves. This is the advantage of the web survey.

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As we have seen that the total respondents to the survey was approximately 6237, this is a very less number compared to the population present in India. The above statement suggests that the people are unaware of the situation. The upcoming generation is more positive and vibrant toward the new and modern society. The ideology of the present generation must change for the betterment of the society.

The people must be known about this kind of surveys by proper marketing or advertising. The citizens of India below the age 18 should be provided with the basic knowledge of LGBT and the people above the age 18 must develop themselves to the modern society about accepting the LGBT and come into their conscience. There are many survey being conducted on this topic and the people must give their views about this situation and be the change to the world.

This article is written by : Srikanth Kulkarni