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Contents:

• LGBT INDIA: WHAT 'S LIKE SIX MONTHS AFTER GAY SEX WAS CRIMALISED
• GAY SNA/PUBS INDIA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• INDIAN GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
• THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
• WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA
• DELHI GAY TRAVEL
• GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

LGBT INDIA: WHAT 'S LIKE SIX MONTHS AFTER GAY SEX WAS CRIMALISED

In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was. There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home.

To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”. He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.

Image ptn, Nish Anand - known to his iends as Tish - is believed to be India's youngt drag queen at the age of 20Up until six months ago, 20-year-old Tish felt like a faced long-term prison time India bee he was an out and proud gay man, but then his life sex was crimalised by the Indian Supreme Court on 6 September overturned a 2013 judgement that upheld a 157-year-old law datg back to Brish source, Getty ImagImage ptn, People holdg an LGBT rabow flag at Mumbai's first ever pri marchThere were celebratns across India when the lg me through but Tish was cryg - bee he'd jt spl up wh his boyiend.

GAY SNA/PUBS INDIA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

It's the basement of a five-star hotelTish regularly parti at gay club Kty Su but says he's sometim nervo when he leav the venue as homophobic people know "what we are" so uld attack him surroundg club is owned by by Kehav Suri - a proment gay bsman - who was one of the the Supreme Court petners that helped change sectn 377, the lonial-era law. "Many people still have the mentaly that homosexualy is wrong, " says Kiran Bobby om the Naz Foundatn. Image ptn, Kiran works at the Naz Foundatn Delhi which supports members of the LGBT munySectn 377 led that gay sex was an "unnatural offence", but the urt led discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn is a fundamental vlatn of rights.

"Image ptn, Kiran, who is transgenr, says she don't always feel safe Delhi as most people thk she's a sex workerThe change law do mean "many lbian and gay people are startg to disclose their sexualy to their parents", Kiran explas.

INDIAN GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

For travelers to India, there is a general perceptn that India is closed to Gay travelers, the untry is largely nservative however the bigger ci like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are more acceptg of gay people. Delhi has some good gay sna's (of urse the are no where close the large morn sna's Europe / Thailand, but atleast a begng has been ma).

I fd Delhi the most gay iendly after the Delhi High Court passed a judgment strikg the Sectn 377.

FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

The bt gay sna is Spartac (they have a webse too) and is que happeng on Fri / Sat. The other gay massage jot is Kalpkaya South Delhi - East of Kailash ( you n google out) this is not as nice as Spartac but like they say ' change is the spice of life' rather than visg the same sna everyday, you uld try this one.

On Tue the pegsnpts offers a good night a gay nightclub each tue for the longt time but I gus there mt be many more that has e up now.

THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA

Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn.

WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA

"We are far om beg a gay-iendly untry.

DELHI GAY TRAVEL

Bobby, a activist (I know only his first name), has ved me to a gay soirée one of the private clubs: the basement of a huge palace.

The proportn of gays seems signifint, but the place is mixed, open, always discreet, and s are rpected, for good measure. “You’re not Mumbai here; you are MumGay, ” he says, parodyg the tle of a short Indian gay film, “BomGay, ” which generated some buzz at the time of s release 1996.

Later the eveng, Bobby explas that India homosexualy is characterized, as often is Asia, by the classil try: crimalizatn, social disapproval, and the police’s nonenforcement of the law. He adds: “For a long time, the ernment would not crimalize homosexualy for the sake of ‘ntament, ’ but didn’t want to thorize for fear of makg a public issue. ”The ia of “ntament” — an Amerin diplomatic term referrg to the limatn of the Communist ntagn — is que a relative notn a untry whose Natnal AIDS Control Organizatn rmally timat has at least 70 ln India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy yet thgs evolve.

GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI

In June 2008, Gay Pri gathered a few thoand people the Indian pal, an event that is well vered by the natnal prs. The followg year the Supreme Court of New Delhi crimalized homosexualy and repealed Sectn 377 of the penal , which led unnstutnal.

It was the first time such a urt tervened on the sensive issue of gay rights. “This article [Sectn 377] was very rarely ed India, but was a sword of Damocl hangg over our heads, and ntributed to the nonregnn of homosexuals India, ” explas Rajeev, a gay activist om the Naz Foundatn Tst, an anizatn that fought for the crimalizatn of homosexualy and was supported by many Bollywood wrers and actors as well as by Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize wner enomics, and by the famo Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the only royal prce to be openly gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

”Unr prsure om the relig lobbi that appealed, the Supreme Court reversed s cisn December 2013 and th recrimalized homosexualy. When I met him 2015 his prtig New Delhi office, he nfirmed that he would “file a new bill on behalf of the Left [the Congrs Party] to reverse the cisn of the Court and fally crimalize homosexualy India once and for all.

” This great secular lady, like many of my terlocutors New Delhi, criciz the lg party of the Right that is currently power — Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Indian People’s Party — for havg renewed ti wh an “archaic and anachronistic” Hdu natnalism that she unhatgly characteriz as sexist, homophobic, and antifemist. Beg a gay-iendly figure, this Bollywood producer neverthels believ that India needs to evolve on the gay India, as often Asia, the issue is not jt about the law: a whole culture helps make homosexualy taboo. Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — everythg ns unter to gay liberatn.