‘Will Turn You Strait’: Indian gay person has faced exile in Canada, says he is already receiving homophobic messages on social media
Visual artist Tarun Godara has lost his last appeal to live in Canada and is facing exile in India after an eight -year residence. In many interviews of Canadian media, he said that he is afraid of his life in India as he has already started receiving homophobic messages on social media, stating that once he is in India, he will be “straight”. Toroon Godara told Toronto Star, “I am getting a lot of hatred and homophobic messages from India on my Instagram, telling me that when I go back, they will change me directly, or like the threats of death. These people are answering news articles about my case,” Tarun Godara told Toronto Star. The 33 -year -old said that coming to study at a Canadian college in 2017 was relieved from his cell life in India. He said that when he was 19 in 2013, he was sexually assaulted by two people. His work permit was not renewed in Canada, and his sexual orientation was not a reason to send him to India as the court ruled that “to be teased and joking is not necessary that there is a amount for harassment” and it is safe to exist in India as he is out of legal status in Canada after staying for seven years. Both of his Godara’s parents work for the government in India, but Gidara said that he had to face childhood living in fear. His elder brother, after knowing his parents, convinced him to send him to Canada that he was gay. Godara received a three -year postgraduate work permit after her graduation in 2019 and worked as a cook, server, art instructor and barista to support themselves while selling her images and pictures through a local gallery and making public murals with other artists.
Why Godara’s work permit was not extended in Canada
It was caught between the old rules and new rules. Godara applied to increase her work permit in July 2022, a month later Canada launched a special program to allow international students to expand their non-diagnosed permits. When he applied, he was told that his application would be processed under the new program. But in December 2022, he was told that his application was refused under the old rules. His second application was also rejected as the special program was over by that time.
The court said that it could not prove that he was raped in India due to his sexual orientation.
Judge Glenis V. McVig wrote, “The applicant did not submit his (pre-east-risk assessment) application as part of the application that the attackers of the sexual attack targeted the applicant for a discriminatory cause of being gay.” “And neither that estimate argued or clarified. Therefore, the officer appropriately found that ‘I have very little information and evidence that it (applicant) was persecuted in India due to their sexuality.,
