Gay Ins of India
Contents:
- GROWG UP GAY: FROM ONSCREEN QUEER INS TO REAL-LIFE HERO
- GAY INS OF INDIA
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- 'GAY INS OF INDIA' IS REPLETE WH GENERALISATNS AND STEREOTYP
- GAY INS OF INDIA
- A BOOK ABOUT INDIA’S ‘GAY INS’ OFFERS PROFIL ACROSS THREE GENERATNS WHILE REFG INICY
- GAY INS OF INDIA
GROWG UP GAY: FROM ONSCREEN QUEER INS TO REAL-LIFE HERO
From Riyad Wadia to Vikram Seth, Khav Suri to Grace Banu, Akkai Padmshali to Disha Pky Shaikh: Parmh Shahani, head of the Godrej India Culture Lab and thor of Gay Bombay, reflects on the many people that have and ntue to spire him * gay icons of india *
Menaka played a very important part the crimalisatn of sectn 377 that prohibed homosexual relatnships. He was one of the petners who got homosualy crimalised 2018.
Parmh Shahani Parmh is the head of Godrej India Culture Lab and an thor who has wrten two books Queeristan: LGBTQ Incln the Indian Workplace and Gay Bombay. Harish is one of the strongt voic pchg for equal rights India has featured many shows, cludg Ellt Page’s Gaytn.
As a shy, pimply gay boy livg a one-room flat Colaba and gog to St Joseph’s High School a red BEST b, the Elton Johns and Freddie Mercurys of the world seemed too distant, too urse, I felt the allure of Judy Garland, Madonna and Lady Gaga at different pots my life, but never matched up to the trsic nnect wh, say, a Meena Kumari or Sonam Kapoor. When I first met the filmmaker Riyad Wadia, flamboyantly high after the succs of his documentary BOMgAY the mid-1990s, I found my first Indian queer in who was queer himself. To watch gayns articulated so eely wh Mumbai’s cultural i, om hog societi to railway statn loos, was exhilaratg.
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Everythg I me across while rearchg my first book Gay Bombay, I lapped up hungrily: Mythologil characters like Shikhandi, the work of artists like Bhupen Khakhar, wrers like Ismat Chughtai and Hoshang Merchant; films like My Brother Nikhil and Fire, magaz like Trikone, and books like Saleem Kidwai and Ruth Vana’s landmark Same Sex Love India.
I have now wrten to Goodreads to whdraw the is my July 2019 letter to the publishers:Dear Pan Maclan, I have jt acquired a py of your new book, Gay Ins of India by Hoshang Merchant and Akshaya K. “…Ruth moved to Montana (USA) to be wh another gay female amic wh whom she shar a home” (p. In Same-Sex Love India, Saleem and I together wrote about both Urdu rekhti poetry, which is precisely not “moral lerature” but playful, often homoerotic, poetry about women, wrten late eighteenth and early neteenth-century Lucknow (and which we classified as morn).
The thors refer to Mohi and Ayyappa, sayg, “I [prumably Merchant] thought Sabrimala to be an ecstatic all-male affirmatn of the nfluence of Shiva and Vishnu (Mohi) through Ayyappa-worship” (91) and sultgly add, “All this is outsi Saleem and Ruth’s ltle gay earth” (91), as if we never mentned the narrativ and Merchant “thought” them up on his own.
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
Fightg a relentls culture of discrimatn and homophobia, India’s LGBTQ+ muny is fally on the road to cln and acceptance. While there are still to go, the Supreme Court’s landmark readg down of Sectn 377 September 2018 me as a battle hard-won for those who intify as gay. In the wake * gay icons of india *
They quote the l of his out of ntext “In the strict ranks/ of Gay and Straight/What is my stat?
'GAY INS OF INDIA' IS REPLETE WH GENERALISATNS AND STEREOTYP
In ‘Gay Ins of India’, Hoshang Merchant and Akshaya K Rath provi a rolleraster ri through liv, lov, loss, stggl, achievements and activism. * gay icons of india *
The gay male, here, is not shortchangg the female gay as men do women the straight world” ().
Namjoshi’s numero works wh explic lbian ntent appeared om 1981 onwards, and the gay magaze, Bombay Dost, found by Rowkavi, first appeared 1990 (he me out Savvy magaze 1986). Vikram Seth (the chapter on whom the thors sultgly tle “Johnny Come Lately”) first published poems wh explicly gay ntent 1980.
85, they disgenuoly state, “ [Same-Sex Love India] beme a textbook of gay history as vered all the three perds of India’s history whereas Yaraana ncentrated only on morn Indian gay lerature. ” This is serly misleadg bee Yaraana is an anthology of wrgs by morn men alone, most of them gay men, while Same-Sex Love India clus both women and men the morn perd, many of them not gay but wrers on gay subjects. In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday.
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But who are India’s gay celebri? Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out.
Here’s a list of India’s top lbian, gay, and bisexual stars.
Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay. Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights!
A BOOK ABOUT INDIA’S ‘GAY INS’ OFFERS PROFIL ACROSS THREE GENERATNS WHILE REFG INICY
Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema. He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny. “The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs.
Addams is an ductee to the Chigo Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame. What Osr Wil is also known for is for twice beg prosecuted for homosexualy and gross cency 1895. Wil, along wh more than 50,000 other gay men, was posthumoly pardoned as part of the 2017 Alan Turg Law.
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Anrson Cooper is one of the most regnizable gay male ins the world right now. Upon g out as gay 2012 Cooper was lled by The New York Tim “the most proment openly gay journalist on Amerin televisn.” Sce that time, he won several GLAAD awards addn to a Peabody Award, an Edward R.
On g out Cooper said “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud.” He has stated over the years that he first realized he was gay his teen years, and first me to tly embrace that part of him shortly after llege. He has served as Entertament Media Director for GLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn).
As an activist for LGBT rights, she has been an outspoken cric of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy the US ary which prohibs gay and lbian servicepeople om beg open.