Advot for India's gay muni are growg numbers, but they say social stigma remas strong.
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- LOVE IS A FEELG YOU N FEEL FOR ANYONE — INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE DUTEE CHAND
- DUTEE CHAND, INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE, HOLDS PRI FLAG AT CWG 2022
- SPRTER DUTEE CHAND BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE
LOVE IS A FEELG YOU N FEEL FOR ANYONE — INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE DUTEE CHAND
Wh Sectn 377 stck down, India's first gay sprter Dutee Chand ntu to love her girliend 'tly, madly, eply', as they move towards a more 'acceptg' future. * gay athletes in india *
It was no different for Dutee when she me out 2019, after all, she was India's 'first openly gay athlete'. But sce I have openly e out and after the amendment of Sectn 377, I see thgs slowly changg, " Chand hopefully put and Monalisa (Source: Gaysi Fay)Personally, Dutee has herself seen a lot of chang and acceptance around her. People who ed to cricize her for beg a homosexual relatnship have now started showg support towards the gold medallist sprter om the 2019 World Universy Gam affair of Sports and Genr Well, Indian Sports is not where one shall look for when to queer reprentatn or LGBTQAI+ history India.
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Dutee Chand, India's first openly gay athlete, held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam.
DUTEE CHAND, INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE, HOLDS PRI FLAG AT CWG 2022
Dutee Chand, India's first openly gay athlete, held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam. * gay athletes in india *
Athlet rryg the LGBTIQ flag (Photo cred: Twter | @MrP)Conmng homophobia, India's first openly gay athlete Dutee Chand has lled for the LGBT+ people to be allowed to live whout "fear of persecutn or ath" facg a barrage of cricism om her fay after announcg she was a same-sex relatnship, to participatg Queen's Baton here to shed light on homophobia Commonwealth untri alongsi Brish synchronised diver and Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley, life has e a full circle for sent a powerful msage agast homophobia as she held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam.
In November, she helped anize New Delhi’s first reer fair meant for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or LGBTQ muny. “We are talented enough to get a job but we are lookg for a safe and clive place, ” she is part of a growg number of activists advotg for India’s lbian and gay muny, which has grown bolr the past year. ”“In the first six months after the Supreme Court lg, we handled about 64 crisis suatns, ” says Vivek Anand, 58-year-old chief executive officer of The Humsafar Tst, a non-prof that has been advotg for gay rights for 25 ced an cint om earlier this year when a gay man om Nagpur, a small town central India, was acsted by a group of men one eveng on the street, and asked to perform sexual acts for them.
Another mastream movie is productn about a gay romance. Still, most participants, like Arp Mehrotra, a 35-year-old gay profsnal Noida, said the event was a big step forward for India. Indian sprter Dutee Chand has revealed she is a same-sex relatnship, beg the untry’s first openly gay, 23, told the Indian Exprs she was a relatnship wh a woman om her village eastern Odisha state, sayg she found the urage to e out after India’s top urt scrapped a lonial-era ban on gay sex last the terview, Chand said: “I have found someone who is my soulmate.