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- INDIAN GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
INDIAN GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS
Thoands of people danced, sang and cheered through the streets of Delhi on Sunday a lorful and vibrant celebratn for the first gay pri para sce gay sex was ma legal India. * india gay parade *
) - Thoands of people danced, sang and cheered through the streets of Delhi on Sunday a lorful and vibrant celebratn for the first gay pri para sce gay sex was ma legal a huge rabow flag, to the sound of dms, whistl and horns, 2, 000 gay activists and supporters clad feather face masks shouted slogans and waved plards as they marched through the pal of this still sexually nservative untry. “Today is about sayg that we are gay and we are proud. We are not gog anywhere, we are a part of society, and today we n celebrate beg different, ” said Am Agrawal, one of the para para brought traffic to a halt the mercial heart of the cy, leavg bemed drivers watchg astonishment as kissg male upl, dancg transsexuals bright pk skirts and thoands of rabow flags went the prev two annual march were billed as protts agast legislatn that crimalized homosexual sex the world’s largt mocracy, July last year a landmark se the Delhi High Court fally overturned the lonial-era Sectn 377 of India’s penal after ne years of legal actn.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
It has only been a year, but has been a huge year, ” said Hillol Dutta, a gay spe the lg, gays still face a social stigma India, where huggg and kissg public even among heterosexual upl is strongly owned relig and fay valu mean many homosexuals choose to hi their sexualy for fear of discrimatn, while attacks by police, pecially ral areas, are mon. Many gays have to keep their sexualy ncealed, many are married, ” said Ashok Das, who was not takg part the attus are slowly changg, pecially the ci of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Eighteen months ago, only one bar tered to Delhi’s gay muny, but today a host of nightclubs host regular gay nights as owners and promoters look to sh on the ‘pk pee’.