A History Unfolding: Exploring the Past, Present, and Challenges of Bangladesh's LGBTQ+ Community

Abstract

The article offers a detailed study of the challenges that the LGBTQ+ community face in Bangladesh. It explores and highlights the issues that went on in the historical, legal, social, and political aspects. It draws attention to this sensitive intermix of gender roles, patriarchal traditions and religious consideration which has made the LGBTQ+ community what they are today. the article explores legal context, on which particular chapter of Penal Code, Section 377, has been used to criminalize sexual relations between the same sex individuals. It talks about stigma as one of the issues that cuts across every aspect of the daily lives of queer people, including violence, pressure, and oppression from police and the community direction at large