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Contents:

• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
• GAY BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR SAYS ‘I WON’T BE VISIBLE’
• DIRECTOR ONIR ON GAY ROL BOLLYWOOD: HAD MANY NARRATNS WH MALE ACTORS, THEY REFE

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. 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.

INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+

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!

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.

Although homosexualy was only crimalised India 2018, proper reprentatn of LGBTQIA+ muni Indian cema has long been gatherg speed.

WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA

Mastream Indian films featurg gay and lbian characters have often been marred by tokenism and naive stereotypg.

Memori March (2010)Bengali filmmaker Ruparno Ghosh is an in of India’s queer muny and was one of the first openly gay artists Indian cema. Ghosh plays Ornub, the son’s gay partner, who challeng Arati’s socially termed perceptns of love and pannship, leadg to a tersely marted crique of the hypocrisi of middle-class Bengali society. Aligarh (2015)Sectn 377 is part of a penal outlawg gay sex, which had remaed force India for 157 years.

In 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy.

GAY BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR SAYS ‘I WON’T BE VISIBLE’

The queer romance is picted by director Geethu Mohandas wh a tenrns that mak universal, focg on the pannship that emerg between Akbar, a gangster, and Ameer (Roshan Mathew), a gay man who is af.

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DIRECTOR ONIR ON GAY ROL BOLLYWOOD: HAD MANY NARRATNS WH MALE ACTORS, THEY REFE

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Closeted Homosexual. A gay, lguistic profsor livg a small orthodox cy mt al wh the aftermath of a stg operatn that puts his sexual orientatn ont of the entire natn. Three young people, Haris, a gay pater; Vishnu, a ral kabaddi player and their iend Sia, an activist who refe to nform to domant norms of femy, stggle to fd space and happs a nservative Indian Cy.

Filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights vlatns faced by the LGBTQ muny India due to a dranian law Sectn 377 and homophobic social mor of a patriarchal society. Sridhar Rangayan.