While the Supreme Court may have crimalised homosexualy, there are still some Indians who are gay and proud and leadg the e. Here’s who they are!
Contents:
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
- FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- BOLLYWOOD AND THE MISREPRENTATN OF GAY MEN
- GAY OF BOLLYWOOD
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
Before Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, we have had queer characters that have touched hearts and ma thk. (By and large, the rabow is missg cema, but still the recent spike LGBTQ films is a wele change). Here's a list of gay/lbian movi that you ought to see if you haven't already. * gay of bollywood *
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.
FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
Famo gay men India - The famo openly gay Indian celebri have phed the boundari the arts and ntue to fy what is normal and * gay of bollywood *
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.
FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
Famo gay men India - The famo openly gay Indian celebri have phed the boundari the arts and ntue to fy what is normal and * gay of bollywood *
“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.
Not long after India’s top urt overturned a lonial era law crimalizg homosexualy, Shelly Chopra Dhar and Gazal Dhaliwal’s 2019 edy-drama “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” picted a queer woman’s attempt to e out to her fay. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020), “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021) and “Badhaai Do” (2022) each feature gay or trans characters relatnships who eventually e up agast disapprovg fay members. ) Still, as one of the first Indian films to pict homosexualy on screen, igned a discsn about sexualy and LGBTQ rights morn India.
In the years that followed, dramas such as “My Brother… Nikhil” (2005) and “Margara Wh A Straw” (2014) portrayed queer characters sensively – the former is the story of a man diagnosed wh HIV who battl homophobia om his parents and Indian thori, while the latter is about a bisexual teenager wh cerebral palsy who falls love wh a young bld activist.
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
* gay of bollywood *
It was more mon, however, for Indian films to rce LGBTQ characters to stereotyp or to voke homosexualy for edic purpos. The 2004 film “Girliend” featur a lbian character who is jealo and vdictive and ultimately meets a tragic end – a textbook example of the “bury your gays” trope. And the 2008 smash h “Dostana, ” about two men who pretend to be a uple so they n share an apartment wh a woman, is rife wh ritured notns of gay men.
Today, such films are wily unrstood to be homophobic. In “Dostana, ” for stance, the character Sameer’s mother is at first distrght at the thought of her son beg gay but ultimately to love and accept his (fake) partner as a son--law – that moment, when removed om s te ntext, is relatively progrsive for s time.
In 1861, the lonial ernment troduced a law crimalizg homosexualy, which stood ntrast to centuri of lol cultural attus around sexualy and was only overturned 2018. “Thereafter, ted Indians, cludg all natnalists om right to left and everythg between, ternalized the Wtern ia that homosexualy is unnatural, abnormal, a s and a crime, ” Vana wrote an email to CNN.
BOLLYWOOD AND THE MISREPRENTATN OF GAY MEN
Many Hdi films om the ’50s to the ‘80s pict tense male iendships that n be terpreted as gay, said Vana. “What we do know is that homosexualy was well attted Bombay film-makg circl; film-makers were not naïve about .
As stigmas around homosexualy and genr fluidy persist India, LGBTQ muni South Asia and the diaspora have reclaimed certa Bollywood songs about iendship as their own, said Anjaria. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, ” a story about a gay uple stgglg to be accepted by their fai, allus to the inic motorbike scene “Sholay” and clus nods to films such as 1964’s “Dosti. But so far, mastream Hdi films pictg LGBTQ love stori have flopped at the box office — a realy that filmmakers and actors volved the projects have attributed to homophobia and cultural stigma India.
Dpe beg the 21st century, discsns around the topic of homosexualy tend to be regrsive as many ntue to look at people wh "different" sexual orientatn as a subject of mockery.
GAY OF BOLLYWOOD
The recent cint, where a man Delhi had to stand up for the LGBTQIA+ muny after hearg the dience crackg homophobic jok while watchg Badhaai Do, which featur a lbian uple played by Chum Darang and Bhumi Pednekar.ALSO READ: 'Fally My Communy Has A Film', Rajkummar Rao's Sister--Law Parnalekha Lds 'Badhaai Do'. Intertgly, Apurva Asrani, who is among the few openly gay men the dtry, opened up about his sexual orientatn back 1998. As per reports, Vasu Primlani is among the first openly gay stand up edian.