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Contents:

• NEW DELHI GAY PARA – PICTUR
• GAY PRI PARA NEW DELHI
• GAY PARA DELHI FOR CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY
• HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA
• GAY PARA MA A MARK DELHI
• THOANDS JO FIRST GAY MARCH DELHI SCE LAW CHANGE ON HOMOSEXUALY INDIA
• DELHI HAS S FIRST GAY PARA
• GAY PARAS, PARTI ATTRACT LGBT TOURISTS
• GAY DELHI
• GAY PARA DELHI FOR CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY PARA MA A MARK DELHI

NEW DELHI GAY PARA – PICTUR

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New Delhi gay para – pictur. This Pri reprents a tone 10 years of llective stggle agast all forms of shame, stigma, transphobia, homophobia and soc-enomic hierarchy. Participants displays a rabow flag and cheer as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg the New Delhi Queer Pri Para.

GAY PRI PARA NEW DELHI

Gay rights activists and their supporters hold lourful balloons and plards as they participate the New Delhi Queer Pri Para. Indian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny take part the New Delhi Queer Pri Para.

People marchg the Queer Pri Para, an event celebratg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people New Delhi. A rabow flag is rried by Indian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr muny durg the New Delhi Pri para. Gay rights activists and their supporters hold lourful balloons and plards as they participate the New Delhi Pri para.

Indian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny take part the New Delhi Pri para. Participants displays a rabow flag and cheer as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg the New Delhi Pri para. Two participants hold hands and dance as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg the New Delhi Pri para.

GAY PARA DELHI FOR CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY

A participant wears a rabow-loured piece of cloth as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg the New Delhi Pri para. India may pri self on beg the world's largt mocracy, but still tak a dim view of gay rights.

Homosexualy is illegal and emed an "unnatural sexual offense" unr sectn 377 of the untry's penal , where is tegorized alongsi btialy and punishable by up to 10 years was wh a mixture of fiance and celebratn that several hundred participants New Delhi's first gay pri para rallied through the pal on Sunday, beatg dms, shoutg slogans and wavg rabow-striped pri flags. The paras memorated the 1969 Stonewall Rts that followed a New York Cy police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village waterg hole equented by a largely gay paras have bee a regular part of the landspe plac such New York Cy, but India's nservative society, participants the para and their dience are still gettg acctomed to the celebratn. Wearg a rabow-lored paper mask, Ajay (he didn't want to give his last name), 26, said his gay iends Delhi are que open onle, but that the suatn on the streets is different.

A re group of about 40 dividuals played a leadg role, enuraged by a seri of gay-iendly events held over the past year—a film ftival, regular Sunday meet-ups, nights out at Estev, a New Delhi magaze edor who helped anize the para, dubbed a "muny event" and explaed the challeng of phg the bounds of social acceptabily India: "India functns like this—you have this massive media verage and people know what the word 'queer' is.

HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA

" But at the same time, "We are still havg to go to the urts to nvce fai agast holdg their children ptiv[e] their hom bee they are homosexuals. "The marchers held aloft signs nouncg the lonial-era antigay laws and shouted "377 qu India, " a slogan vokg the antigay law that lled to md the Qu India Movement, which was aimed at brgg Brish le to an end.

"New Delhi is a very, very homophobic place, " said Paroma Mherjee, a senr photojournalist wh the Indian Exprs.

GAY PARA MA A MARK DELHI

Indian newspapers are rife wh tal of suicis of homosexual men and women prsured to tradnal, arranged marriag.

"Supportg the e is different om sayg to them that I'm gay.

THOANDS JO FIRST GAY MARCH DELHI SCE LAW CHANGE ON HOMOSEXUALY INDIA

'" His universy mp lacks a sgle gay stunt anizatn. "Gays are nied the fundamental right of existence. "But neher Dhan nor his other gay iends om Delhi Universy—nor anyone else this reporter spoke wh at the rally—said they had been arrted by the police vlatn of sectn 377.

That isn't to say that gay men are not still arrted for nsensual sex. A few months ago Lucknow, pal of New Delhi's neighborg state of Uttar Prash, two gay men were arrted after beg found a "breedg posn" a public park. Delhi Gay Pri Participants Wanted.

DELHI HAS S FIRST GAY PARA

Delhi Gay Pri is a yearly ftival to honor and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people, and their supporters. On July 2, 2009, the High Court of Delhi repealed Article 377 of the Indian Penal Co, th crimalizg homosexual existence.

This change ernment policy was rponse to the Gay Pri celebratns 2008 and 2009, the latter which was held Delhi the weekend before the lg. It is not too soon to start planng for the biggt Gay Pri ftival Delhi has ever seen, which will be Delhi Gay Pri 2010!

Jog voice wh their muny across the globe, hundreds of homosexuals and transgenrs marched on the streets of the natnal pal mandg crimalisatn of homosexualy. Shoutg slogans like ‘Down wh 377’ and ‘Proud to be homos, ’ and dancg to the tun of dmmers, the marchers mand scrappg of the ntroversial Sectn 377 of Indian Penal Co that clar as a crimal offence ‘sex agast the orr of nature’. Drsed lourful attir, the lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenrs, many of them donng masks, started om the Barakhamba road and culmated their march at the Jantar Mantar.

GAY PARAS, PARTI ATTRACT LGBT TOURISTS

The activists for gay rights also weled the “posive signals” g om the ernment over their mand for the repealg of the law. “That the ernment is posively thkg to repeal the outdated law is fely a posive sign, at a time when we are also wag for a judgement a related se at the High Court, ” said Ponni, a gay rights activist workg for a Bangalore-based anisatn, and one of the anisers of the event. NEW DELHI (Rters) - Hundreds of people danced, sang and cheered a gay pri para India’s pal on Sunday, the first sce the untry’s top urt restated a ban on gay sex the world’s largt balloons, masquera masks and wigs, a huge rabow flag and a St.

GAY DELHI

Participants chantg “Azaadi” (eedom) and shoutg slogans such as “I’m gay, that’s OK” rried banners and plards mandg their right to love.

GAY PARA DELHI FOR CRIMALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY

Deal wh , ” said Mohnish Kabir Malhotra, 27, a publicist and one of the anizers of this year’s December, India’s Supreme Court threw out a 2009 lg by a lower urt that had crimalized gay sex, sayg only parliament uld repeal Sectn 377 of India’s penal which bans sex agast the orr of Brish lonial-era law is wily terpreted to mean homosexual sex, and n be punished wh up to 10 years jail. Many choose to hi their sexualy for fear of participants said they had ltle fah that Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s ernment would revoke Sectn 377, spe havg a majory the lower hoe of CONSERVATIVEModi’s lg Bharatiya Janata Party is a right-wg natnalist outf perceived to be more nservative than the prev Congrs-led has not publicly mented on the issue of homosexualy, although his lleague Rajnath Sgh had lled gay sex “unnatural” the wake of the December urt lg. Some BJP policians such as An Jaley have said that gay sex should be crimalized.

A poster at the para picted Modi’s face filled wh the lors of the rabow, the symbol of the gay rights movement, and the ptn “I love Am Shah”, referrg to the print of Modi’s polil participants said the prime mister did not mean the gay muny any harm.

GAY PARA MA A MARK DELHI

Hdtan Tim | Aakri Sawhney, New Delhi Nov 29, 2011 01:34 AM IST Colourful support to the members of the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) muny marked the Delhi Queer Pri 2011 as hundreds of people om across the untry took to the streets on Sunday. Colourful support to the members of the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) muny marked the Delhi Queer Pri 2011 as hundreds of people om across the untry took to the streets on Sunday.

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Thoands marched through Delhi's ma street the first gay pri para sce homosexualy was crimalised takg part waved rabow flags and plards emblazoned wh "Love Ws" and "Ads 377" - a reference to the lonial-era law banng gay sex that was banished September.