This is a really well researched story of what happened in Hassan recently done by Lester Feder of BuzzFeed with the help of on the ground work done by Bangalore based activists. The story was only lightly reported in the national media and a lot of the nuances and details were missed out. When you learn them, it becomes all the more disturbing. Please share and forward the link as widely as possible:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/what-happened-when-india-decided-it-was-okay-with-homosexual