The Supreme Court’s judgement on Sectn 377 may have opened many doors for love and acceptance for homosexuals, but homosexualy is not new to Indian shor. Here we have a few openly gay personali who fought agast all odds to stand up for their inti
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OUT AND PROUD: FAMO INDIAN PERSONALI WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
To mark Pri Month, Vogue spoke to Grav Gupta about his experience of growg up gay India the early ’90s, the challeng he faced choosg a reer he loved, and how his stggl shape his work today * indian gay fashion designers *
Hontly, all I ever wanted to do was act on the voice si of me—a fledglg, cur need to explore and all of this, I was also alg wh the aggrsn that me wh growg up a homosexual boy the ’90s.
I’m okay talkg about my sexualy openly now, but when I was younger, people didn’t even know what beg gay was. People would say thgs like “he’s ‘a’ gay”. In mastream movi, the gay character was often silly and teased—that was the stereotype.
FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
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I thk my fay didn’t even realise that I was gay till later. In between, I'd keep tellg them that there are all kds of people; that when they e to London, I would show them the gay bars or sex shops beg at Central Sat Marts and jt generally livg London, seeg so many different kds of people and havg a whole life where beg gay is normal, I beme fortable wh . While the law now protects the muny, the cultural shift has a long way to go, but at least there’s an awarens about beg gay.
It’s very important to have a Karan Johar (who is helpg normalise homosexualy popular culture) or a Khav Suri (who fought tirelsly for the 377 verdict), and a lot of people who are fashn and are nfint, succsful, and open. And the rt is read:Radhika Piramal: “My parents hoped my gayns was a phase”Insi Am Patel and Mart Fulton’s betiful multicultural weddgCareers fashn: Grav Gupta on makg avant-gar signs mercial.
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