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Practilly, they n register their marriage and their rights n be immediately exercised, ” said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg LGBTQ rights activist Nepal.

Image source, AFPImage ptn, The lourful rally drew about 500 peopleGay right activists have taken part a para Nepal's pal Kathmandu to prs their mands for gay rights to be enshred the nstutn.

Hundreds turned up for the lourful rally - dancg the are mandg same-sex marriage be guaranteed the new nstutn, gay upl' rights to adopt, buy jot property or her om one crimalised homosexualy 2007.

'PROGRSIVE LAWS, BUT...': IS NEPAL REALLY THE BEAN OF LGBTQ RIGHTS ASIA?WHILE THE LAWS ARE PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT REALLY TRANSLATED TO MEANGFUL CHANGE FOR THE MUNY.MADHREE GOSWAMIPUBLISHED: 19 JUL 2023, 8:32 AM ISTEXPLAERS5 M READISHARE ON "NEPAL WAS NEVER LONISED, AND HENCE, UNLIKE FORMER BRISH LONI SUCH AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN, WHICH HERED LONIAL LAWS BANNG 'UNNATURAL' SEX, NEPAL DID NOT HAVE ANY ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN ON S BOOKS," NIRANJAN KUNWAR, THE THOR OF BETWEEN QUEENS AND THE CI, WHICH IS THE FIRST QUEER MEMOIR ENGLISH TO BE PUBLISHED THE UNTRY, EXPLAED TO THE QUT.ON 28 JUNE, NEPAL BEME THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN UNTRY TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAG AFTER THE UNTRY'S SUPREME COURT PASSED AN TERIM ORR ASKG THORI TO MAKE TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS TO REGISTER SUCH MARRIAG BEFORE SPECIFIC LAWS ARE FORMULATED.THIS HISTORIC CISN ADD YET ANOTHER FEATHER TO NEPAL'S P WHEN ME TO PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF GENR AND SEXUAL MORI. 2007: NEPAL'S SUPREME COURT EXPLICLY PROTECTS SEXUAL ORIENTATN2010: THE ELECTN COMMISSN ADDS THE THIRD GENR OPTN TO VOTER ROLLS2011: NEPAL CLUS A THIRD GENR ON S NATNAL CENS, A FIRST THE WORLD 2015: PASSPORTS START REGNISG THREE GENRSYET, MANY OM THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY NEPAL ALLEGE THAT "THE ATTU OF THE SOCIETY TOWARDS THEM IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS BACK," WHEN THE SUPREME COURT FIRST REGNISED GENR AND SEXUAL INTI.THE QUT LOOKS AT HOW THE GROUND REALY FOR LGBTQIA+ PERSONS NEPAL, WHICH HAS A LONG HISTORY OF QUEER STGGLE, IS STILL FAR OM NDUCIVE SPE S PROGRSIVE LAWS. ALSO READNEPAL'S SUPREME COURT ORRS GOVT TO TEMPORARILY REGISTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGADVERTISEMENTHOW NEPAL'S LGBTQ MOVEMENT CAME OF AGE DURG CIVIL WARWHEN NEPAL TRANSNED OM AN TOCRACY TO A MOCRACY 2008, NEPAL'S GAY MUNY WAS AMONG THE FIRST GROUPS TO MAND REGNN, ALONG WH THE UNTRY'S ETHNIC MORI. AS KYLE KNIGHT, A REARCHER ON THE LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS PROGRAMME AT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, SAID: "THE MOVEMENT ME OF AGE DURG THE 1996-2006 CIVIL WAR AND FOUND S FOOTG THE AFTERMATH.""ACTIVISTS JOED THE PROTTS AGAST THE MONARCHY AND NTRIBUTED TO THE NVERSATNS ABOUT WHAT A 'NEW NEPAL' SHOULD LOOK LIKE – THIS GAVE THEM A HUGE AMOUNT OF SOCIAL LEGIMACY," HE TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2016.BUT AS KUNWAR EXPLAED, WH NO ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN, NEPAL SAW LAWS BEG TWISTED TO TARGET THE MUNY. FOR STANCE, A REVISN THE 1960S TRODUCED A CLSE FORBIDDG "UNNATURAL SEX."IN 2004, WAS PROBABLY ED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME TO ARGUE THE SHUTTG DOWN OF BLUE DIAMOND SOCIETY (BDS), NEPAL'S FIRST QUEER NGO, FOUND BY FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN AND GENR RIGHTS ACTIVIST SUNIL BABU PANT 2001."A LAWYER NAMED ACHYUT PRASAD KHAREL HAD PETNED TO THE NEPALE ERNMENT TO SHUT BDS DOWN FOR ENURAGG HOMOSEXUALY THE NAME OF HUMAN RIGHTS. HIS SE LED TO AN CREASE VLENCE AGAST LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE," RELLED PANT.BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006 (WHEN THE UNTRY WAS STILL NOT A MOCRACY), AT LEAST 90 PEOPLE OM THE QUEER MUNY HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AS RERD BY THE BDS.THE SE WAS DISMISSED BY THE NEPALE ERNMENT ON GROUNDS OF "HOMOSEXUALY NOT BEG A CRIMAL ISSUE."ALSO READPRI IS POLIL: LGBTQ+ INDIANS REFLECT ON THE POLICS OF QUEERNSADVERTISEMENTTHE 2007 JUDGMENT THAT CHANGED IT ALLSPEAKG ABOUT HOW THE MUNY WAS SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE, PANT TOLD THE QUT THAT WAS THIS VERY DISCRIMATN THAT PELLED HIM AND OTHERS TO FILE A PETN 2007 – THE VERDICT OF WHICH WENT ON TO BEE A LANDMARK ONE."IN 2003, WHEN THE EMERGENCY WAS IMPOSED NEPAL AFTER THE TRANSN OM MONARCHY TO TOCRACY, SECURY FORC SCEND ON THE STREETS. THE THIRD-GENR POPULATN WAS SUBJECTED TO A LOT OF VLENCE, BOTH OM THE FORC AS WELL AS THE MAOISTS. THE FORC ED TO TA TRANS PERSONS UNR SOME PRETEXT OR THE OTHER," HE TOLD THE QUT.ON 26 AUGT 2004, A POLICE OFFICER SL A TRANSGENR WOMAN'S THROAT AFTER FORCG HER TO PERFORM ORAL SEX. "AFTER THE KHAREL SE, POLICE ME AFTER MORE AGGRSIVELY," PANT ADD.TWO YEARS LATER, A PRO-MOCRACY MOVEMENT BEGAN. "THIS HELPED MAKE NNECTNS WH A FEW POLIL PARTI WHO WERE QUE WELG OF . AFTER THE PEACE ACRD WAS SIGNED NEW DELHI, AN TERIM PARLIAMENT WAS MA AND THEY SOUGHT SUGGTNS ON WHAT TO CLU THE CONSTUTN. WE ASKED THAT LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS BE CLUD THE CONSTUTN, BUT OUR SUGGTNS WERE NOT TABLED. THAT IS WHEN WE CID TO MOVE THE URT," HE SAID.WH EIGHT MONTHS OF THEIR PETN, THE TOP URT PASSED A FAVOURABLE CISN, WHICH CLEARLY STATED THAT LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE ARE 'NATURAL'. IT REGNISED THE MUNY'S RIGHTS AS 'FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS', AND LEGALISED HOMOSEXUALY – A FIRST FOR A SOUTH ASIAN NATN.IN S ORR, THE URT ALSO ASKED THE ERNMENT TO FORM A PANEL TO STUDY SAME-SEX MARRIAG AND E UP WH LEGAL PROVISNS BASED ON S SUGGTNS AND REMENDATNS. THE MTEE SUBMTED S REPORT 2015, REMENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, NEVER GAED STEAM.ALSO READFIVE MEXINS, ONE LOL KILLED HELIPTER CRASH NEAR MOUNT EVERT NEPALADVERTISEMENTTHE REALY ON THE GROUNDAFTER THE 2007 JUDGMENT – AND WHAT FOLLOWED AFTERWARDS – NEPAL EARNED A GLOBAL IMAGE OF BEG A BEAN OF LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS. BUT WHILE THE LAWS HAVE BEEN NSIRED PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT TRANSLATED TO CHANG THE LARGER SOCIETY, AND MEMBERS OF THE MUNY ARE STILL DISCRIMATED AGAST, ACTIVISTS ALLEGED TO THE QUT.FOR STANCE, DAYS AFTER THE TOP URT'S HISTORIC CISN TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THE KATHMANDU DISTRICT COURT REJECTED A MARRIAGE REGISTRATN APPLITN FILED BY A GAY UPLE ON THE GROUNDS THAT BOTH APPLINTS BELONG TO THE SAME SEX. "THIS IS NOT ONLY A BLOW TO THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI, BUT ALSO A DISHONOUR TO THE SUPREME COURT'S ORR," SAID PANT.IN HIS PAPER 'EVERYDAY LIV OF LGBTI KATHMANDU VALLEY: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY', MEGH VILAS BHATTA, FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF HUMANI AND SOCIAL SCIENC AT BUDHANILKANTHA SCHOOL KATHMANDU, HAS NOTED HOW "THERE IS WISPREAD TOLERANCE FOR LGBTI MUNY THE NEPALE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS THAT THEY DO NOT NFORM TO SET NOTNS FOR MALE OR FEMALE GENR INTY."HE TOLD THE QUT THAT THE MUNY SUFFERS OM EXTENSIVE PREJUDICE, DISCRIMATN, AND VLENCE."ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS MY PAPER TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS NIED A HOE FOR RENT BY THE LANDLORD KATHMANDU BEE OF HER GENR. THE LANDLORD LLED HER A HIJRA AND SAID THAT A MISFORTUNE WOULD OCCUR IF HE RENTED OUT TO HER."BHAKTI SHAH, A TRANSGENR MAN, TOLD THE QUT THAT PEOPLE'S PERCEPTN TOWARD "SEXUAL MORI IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS AGO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT LG ON GENR INTY." SHAH WORKED THE NEPAL ARMY, WHERE HE WAS ACCED OF HAVG SEX WH A WOMAN THE BARRACKS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED OM HIS POSN 2009."I WAS IMPRISONED FOR 60 DAYS A BIG HALL WH VLTED CEILGS. THEY KEPT TELLG ME THAT I WAS A CRIMAL ... THEY TOLD ME THAT I EXHIBED HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR AND THAT I WAS A BLACK MARK ON THE WHOLE ARMY BEE OF MY SEXUALY. THEY LATER LLED ME AND SAID THAT I WAS NOW EXPELLED OM THE ROYAL NEPAL ARMY AND THAT I SHOULD GO HOME," RELLED SHAH."THE NVERSATN REGARDG QUEER RIGHTS HAS NOT PROGRSED BEYOND THE 2007 VERDICT. WE ARE STILL TREATED LIKE THIRD-CLASS CIZENS," SAID RSHANA KAPALI, A QUEER RIGHTS ACTIVIST. A TRANSGENR WOMAN WHO WAS BULLIED AND ABED BY HER SCHOOL PRCIPAL DURG HER SCHOOL YEARS, KAPALI WAS LATER FORMALLY ALLOWED TO STUDY AT TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSY.THOUGH SHE ULD STUDY AGA, SHE WAS NOT FORMALLY REGISTERED AS A STUNT, AS HER HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT INTIFI HER AS A "MALE" UNR HER ADNAME.(AT THE QUT, WE ARE ANSWERABLE ONLY TO OUR DIENCE. PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE SHAPG OUR JOURNALISM BY BEG A MEMBER. BEE THE TTH IS WORTH .)READ LATT NEWS AND BREAKG NEWS AT THE QUT, BROWSE FOR MORE OM EXPLAERS TOPICS:  NEPAL   EXPLAER   LGBT COMMUNY BEE A MEMBER TO UNLOCKACCS TO ALL PAYWALLED NTENT ON SEAD-EE EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE QUTLISTEN TO PAYWALLED NTENTEARLY PREVIEWS OF OUR SPECIAL PROJECTSAND MORE MEMBERSHIP BENEFS!THE QUT DAILY

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It remas illegal many South Asian source, EPAImage ptn, LGBT rights activists pla of obstacl by lol officialsImage source, RtersImage ptn, Nepal crimalised homosexualy 2007"Our ma mand is that the rights of the sexual mori should be guaranteed the new nstutn, " said Pky Gung of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group regnised a third genr as early as 2007 when the Supreme Court orred the ernment to scrap all laws that discrimated on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr year, issued passports wh "other" as the choice for those who do not wish to be intified as male or reprentativ of the LGBT [lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr] muny say they have difficulty obtag the has seen several protts recent weeks agast the new draft nstutn beg discsed by parliament.

"Nepal was never lonised, and hence, unlike former Brish loni such as India and Pakistan, which hered lonial laws banng 'unnatural' sex, Nepal did not have any anti-gay legislatn on s books, " Niranjan Kunwar, the thor of Between Queens and the Ci, which is the first queer memoir English to be published the untry, explaed to The 28 June, Nepal beme the first South Asian untry to regnise same-sex marriag after the untry's Supreme Court passed an terim orr askg thori to make temporary arrangements to register such marriag before specific laws are historic cisn add yet another feather to Nepal's p when me to protectg the rights of genr and sexual mori. How Nepal's LGBTQ Movement Came of Age Durg Civil WarWhen Nepal transned om an tocracy to a mocracy 2008, Nepal's gay muny was among the first groups to mand regnn, along wh the untry's ethnic mori. ""Activists joed the protts agast the monarchy and ntributed to the nversatns about what a 'new Nepal' should look like – this gave them a huge amount of social legimacy, " he told The Guardian as Kunwar explaed, wh no anti-gay legislatn, Nepal saw laws beg twisted to target the muny.

Between 2003 and 2006 (when the untry was still not a mocracy), at least 90 people om the queer muny had been attacked, as rerd by the se was dismissed by the Nepale ernment on grounds of "homosexualy not beg a crimal issue.

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It regnised the muny's rights as 'fundamental human rights', and legalised homosexualy – a first for a South Asian s orr, the urt also asked the ernment to form a panel to study same-sex marriag and e up wh legal provisns based on s suggtns and remendatns. But while the laws have been nsired progrsive, they have not translated to chang the larger society, and members of the muny are still discrimated agast, activists alleged to The stance, days after the top urt's historic cisn to regnise same-sex marriage, the Kathmandu District Court rejected a marriage registratn applitn filed by a gay uple on the grounds that both applints belong to the same sex.

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It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights. Ne stat have laws banng transgenr people om g bathrooms or other facili that align wh their genr inty at least some settgs, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a thk liberatns over the bill promotg unrstandg of gay and transgenr people the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, nservative policians raised ncerns that the law might enable men to barge to women’s bathrooms and asslt Tuday after the cisn was released, some nservativ objected.

Activists said that the Supreme Court cisn uld help nudge other pani and lol ernments to change their own l erng the e of rtrooms by transgenr lg uld help “lol ernments to make their own policy or their own ordanc, and many pani will follow the judgment, ” said Gon Matsunaka, a director and adviser to Pri Hoe Tokyo, a support center for the gay and transgenr muny.

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The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock.

3 of 3 | Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg sexual mory rights activist Nepal, speaks wh the Associated Prs durg an terview Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Gay rights activists and upl Nepal on Thursday were celebratg an terim orr issued by the untry’s Supreme Court enablg them to register same-sex marriag for the first time. 3 of 3Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg sexual mory rights activist Nepal, speaks wh the Associated Prs durg an terview Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023.

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Practilly, they n register their marriage and their rights n be immediately exercised, ” said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leadg LGBTQ+ rights activist Nepal.

Nepal once held the same reputatn and laws, and stori of discrimatn were not unmon, pecially amongst Maoist lears and surgents who once clared homosexualy as a “social pollutant” the past particular, Nepal has ma major efforts to improve LGBTQ rights wh the untry, and this more liberal attu has ma one of the most gay-iendly untri South ’ll notice om the moment you fill you landg rd – that ltle box marked “other” the genr sectn.

Gay Activy: LegalLbian Activy: LegalSame-sex Marriage: Not currently legal – raised as topic for future discsnSame-Sex Adoptn: Not currently legal for upl, although sgle gay people n adoptRight to Change Genr: Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn: RegnisedLGBT Discrimatn: Illegal some ntextsCensorship: No censorshipMilary or public service: AllowedEmployment discrimatn: IllegalHog discrimatn: IllegalAge of Consent: Equal (16)(source: Equalx). Nepal’s first openly gay bar, PINK Tiffany, opened 2015 Blue Diamond Society also anise a separate Pri event every Augt or September, cidg wh the Gai Jatra ftival and mandg equal rights for the LGBTQ muny a lourful and peaceful march through more ral muni and olr generatns, attus have been slower to change, but travellers are unlikely to enunter hostily. For the most part, the hotel employee has probably assumed you ma a mistake wh your bookg and tried to rrect , rather than beg any kd of anti-gay statement.

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It is probably fair to say that this is the centre of the Kathmandu LGBTQ muny venue-wise, and at night be one of the livelit and iendlit plac for travellers to mix wh the lol venu also attract mixed and gay-iendly crowds, and there’s a famo gay night every Friday at Fire Club Thamel, too. Generally, the tours follow the same rout as a standard tour but enurage gay travellers travellers won’t be discrimated agast by any cent, morn travel operator nowadays so all optns are open, and you uld even create your own ctom group tour.

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This is gog returned to a time whilst Alexanr the Great of Greece nearly domated the plete world & whilst he reached the seashorel of India and battled wh Kg Pos, he had ptured an excellent homosexual named Kalikanta & turned to so drawn to this homosexual that he appoted Kalikanta whsi the maximum fashnable role of the stanc as head of his ncub wh all of the royal centers imaged. Gay Tours Nepal, Lbian Tours Nepal, Lbian holiday Nepal, Gay Adventure journey Nepal, Lbian journey excursn Nepal, Gay and Lbian opportuny own circle of relativ holiday are a number of the hikg applitns for LGBT se visors. Livg a poor, culturally nservative muny, where gay, lbian, and transgenr people were entirely visible, they felt pelled to keep their relatnship hidn om their fai.

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The anizatn provid Apeksha and her partner wh sheltered acmodatn Kathmandu and an tert-ee loan to help them lay the foundatns for an pennt s foundatn 2001, the Blue Diamond Society has led the fight for gay rights Nepal, mpaigng for nstutnal change. Believed to be one of the most progrsive untri Asia when to gay rights, Apeksha’s story reveals that the polil advanc to do not always filter down to lived be first Asian untry to clu non-discrimatory laws for LGBT muny — Aftab Borka (@aftabborka) September 23, 2015Beg LGBT Asia, a jot report missned by US Aid, UNDP and UNICEF, explas the plex history of LGBT rights Nepal. Recent polil advanc have helped enshre the rights of gay, lbian and third genr dividuals law — om nstutnal regnn to the creatn of a ‘third genr’ passport.

” An example of this discrepancy between polil progrs and the daily realy for LGBT people around the world, Apeksha now works full-time for the Blue Diamond Society to help break the barriers she faced growg up gay Nepal.

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The affair plays out "Snow Flowers", a lbian love story beg dubbed "Brokeback Evert" and set to be the first gay feature film the 60-year history of Nepale cema. Lol media have dubbed the film "Brokeback Evert" a reference to Ang Lee's gay wboy love story "Brokeback Mounta", which won three Osrs and grossed more than $178 ln worldwi after s release 2005.

Indtry observers are awag the reactn of dienc Nepal, a nservative, maly Hdu untry that nohels has some of the most progrsive polici on homosexualy Asia. Adhikari, 25, says the film is a first as als wh the turmoil experienced by same-sex upl Nepal, whereas prevly gay people have always been picted as figur of fun. By Prs Tst of India: The Kathmandu District Court on Thursday rejected a marriage registratn applitn filed by a gay uple spe the Supreme Court legalisg same-sex marriag Gung, 38, and Surendra Pany, 27, -- both born male -- had sought the urt's approval to register their marriage.

Nety-two percent of the sample would have chosen one of seven terms as their primary inty: third genr, Meti, gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual and MSM. By addg Meti and Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Heterosexual, and MSM, the cens would provi over 92 percent of our sample wh terms they would choose themselv to scribe their primary sexual or genr inty.

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HANDSOME NEPAL 2017","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-12-27T18:36:31.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-12-27T18:36:31.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"TERNATNAL, STYLE","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE WA IS OVER: THE WNER OF THE MR GAY HANDSOME NEPAL 2017 HAS BEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANDRA SGH WAS GIVEN THE TROPHY AT AN EVENT TUDAY NIGHT, AS WELL AS A SH PRIZE OF 50,000 PE (A LTLE LS THAN $500).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SGH (ABOVE CENTER) IS FELY A THIRST-QUENCHER, BUT THE BLUE DIAMOND SOCIETY, THE LGBT RIGHTS GROUP THAT ANIZ THE EVENT, SAYS THE PAGEANT IS ALSO FOCED ON GAY MEN WHO WILL CHAMPN GAY RIGHTS NEPAL, NOT JT THE HANDSOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TUDAY'S NTT WAS THE THIRD EDN OF THE GAY MR. HANDSOME NEPAL NTT. (THE FIRST WAS WAS HELD 2013.) SGH WILL NOW REPRENT NEPAL AT MR. GAY WORLD 2018 KNYSNA, SOUTH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE SHOW NTTANTS WERE GIVEN TRAG AND TIPS BY FORMER MISS NEPAL MALVIKA SUBBA. ON FACEBOOK, EMCEE SUBEKSHA KHADKA PRAISED THE EVENT FOR "BREAKG STEREOTYP" AND "EMPOWERG [GAY MEN] TO STAND PROUD FOR WHO THEY ARE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SCE THE LLAPSE OF THE MONARCH 2007, NEPAL HAS BEEN NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST LGBT-IENDLY UNTRI SOUTH ASIA: IN 2015, THE NEW NSTUTN CLUD SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY THE NEPAL'S ANTI-DISCRIMATN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT ALSO AFFIRMED THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI TO ACCS PUBLIC SERVIC AND TO HAVE THEIR PREFERRED GENR DISPLAYED ON OFFICIAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE THE ADVANC WERE IALLY CELEBRATED, NEPAL’S LGBT MUNY HAS BEEN TRATED AT THE LACK OF IMPLEMENTATN ON THE MUNY LEVEL, AS MANY GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE STILL FACE VLENCE AND STIGMA. (A BILL TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE FELL APART PARLIAMENT 2010.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN AUGT 2016, NEARLY A THOAND PEOPLE GATHERED KATHMANDU TO MAND THE ERNMENT MAKE GOOD ON S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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When broken down between those assigned male at birth and assigned female at birth, a majory of those assigned female at birth strongly intified as third genr and/or lbian/gay, and had very ltle intifitn wh the other inty terms. Gay/Bisexual: People assigned male at birth who intified wh sexual orientatn terms (gay or bisexual), but lacked intifitn to feme (or third genr) genr inti.

Lbian/Gay: People assigned female at birth who intified wh sexual orientatn terms (lbian or bisexual), but lacked intifitn to mascule (or third genr) genr inti (6. Those the Third Genr Assigned Female at Birth Group most often reported attractn to femal (89 percent) while those the Lbian/Gay Group maly reported attractn to femal (56 percent) and third genr men (36 percent).

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Those the Third Genr Assigned Female at Birth Group most often reported recent sexual partners to be femal (79 percent) or reported not havg sex (14 percent), while those the Lbian/Gay Group maly reported havg sex wh third genr men (48 percent), femal (38 percent), and not havg sex (17 percent). The Gay/Bisexual Group (37 percent) and Third Genr Assigned Female at Birth Group (31 percent) were more likely to report beg sgle than the other two groups (21 percent for Third Genr Assigned Male at Birth Group; and 24 percent for the Lbian/Gay Group).

5 However, approximately 14 percent of the rponnts who were assigned male at birth reported no e, pared to 9 percent of the Third Genr Assigned Female at Birth Group and 7 percent of the Lbian/Gay Group. Almost 30 percent of those the Third Genr Assigned Male at Birth Group reported nial of health re, followed by 15 percent of the Third Genr Assigned Female at Birth Group, 7 percent of the Gay/Bisexual Group, and 3 percent of the Lbian/Gay Group, suggtg prejudice or bias agast people who are genr non-nformg rults those dividuals experiencg higher rat of discrimatn. The groups of those assigned female at birth were the least likely to be tted (71 percent and 83 percent reported not havg been tted) while only 18 percent of the Gay/Bisexual Group had not been tted and only 10 percent of the Third Genr Assigned Male at Birth Group had not been tted.

The ernment’s burecracy remas sclerotic, and ernment officials have ntued recent years to harass LGBT groups, cludg by allegg that anizg around homosexualy is illegal the untry. Utilizg the lol vernacular—for example, by -optg a tradnal Nepali ftival as their “pri” celebratn whout renamg as “gay”—they ftly negotiated legal regnn of a third genr durg a perd when discsns of mory inty tegori—mostly ste and ethnic—lored mastream polil disurse.

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In this type of surrogacy arrangement, the gay upl work directly wh the would-be Surrogate, Egg Donor, surrogacy attorney, and fertily clic whout the assistance of a surrogacy agency. The urt of Columbia legalized same-sex marriage back 2019, meang that gay upl have the same rights to build a fay as heterosexual upl or sgle parents. It is therefore unavoidable for gay men to nsir an expensive but safe surrogacy statn like the US or choose untri where surrogacy is not regulated to rce st.

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