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Contents:

• DELHI GAY TRAVEL
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• DELHI GAY TRAVEL
• GAY NEW DELHI

DELHI GAY TRAVEL

Delhi holds one of the largt pri paras and boasts numero gay-iendly f, but is really the most queer-iendly statn India? India September 2018 created history by scrappg out parts of sectn 377 of Indian Penal Co (IPC) that crimalised homosexual sex between nsentg adults.

This horrendo law was earlier ed as a way to objectify and harass the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals  India. The two ci that have been the most proment showg nstant support towards the gay muny India are Delhi and Mumbai, but how iendly are they really their approach towards the queer? The ftival is dited to screeng gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer films that help brgg about a social change the mdset of the dience.

The Mister & art Hoe is India’s first boutique gut hoe and art gallery for gay men only and is Delhi. The owner of this place, Sanjay Malhotra also owns a gay-iendly travel webse that aniz tours and ctomiz erari for gay ternatnal tourists who e to explore India. Acrdg to Sanjay, Delhi is the most queer-iendly cy India, there are parti held every week at posh hotels and every weekend you n go out gay party hoppg at clubs Delhi.

‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

Delhi boasts numero gay-iendly f, bars and clubs that open doors to the queer and give them space where they fd some fort. Gay-iendly f and bars, meetups, poetry ssns, open-mic gathergs and healthy discsns where journalists, artists and diplomats all une for one reason – love for all and all s forms, leav askg the qutn is Delhi, the pal cy of India, the most queer-iendly cy of the untry?

DELHI GAY TRAVEL

’ to eher drs down or drs up, ” says Taksh, a 23-year-old transwoman livg Delhi Delhi streets n be cel, pecially to members of the LGBTQIA (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) muny and to other sexual mori, the sle of the pal also acrds a kd of anonymy that allows dividuals to go about their day peace. The first that to md is The Lal Group’s Kty Su, n by hotelier Khav Suri, who was a wr petner agast the recently repealed Sectn 377 of the IPC, which crimalised gay sex.

The party is sentially thronged by gay men the cy and often has exotic dancers and drag shows – forms of exprsn that may otherwise be absent om public spac the cy.

GAY NEW DELHI

Antisocial was the first place Delhi to host the onle queer muny Gaysi’s 2x2 Bar Meetup, which was an event for like-md queer dividuals the cy to meet and share ias. We anise many events, on Fridays we have drag queen shows, on Sundays we have a movie screeng – we put some gay movie...

We put on some gay love story, thgs like that, ” says Chef Jerome Nilas, 57, who intifi as bisexual himself. One floor below the fé is Mykonos Men’s Spa, one of the many spas the cy that ters to homosexual men. (Source: Facebook/oddbirdtheatre)The greater visibily of gay men, as opposed to other sexual mori, adds more tersectnal layers to the LGBTQ+ sub-culture the cy.

Parti like the on at Kty Su are not only rerved for the rich, upper-middle-class cream of society but also exclively ter to gay men.

“Queer femal and transmen do not have the kd of spac to hang out that gay men may do.

Co-found by Ishaan Sethi, a 27-year-old who intifi as gay himself, the app is built by the muny, for the muny. The Gay Travel Experience: Delhi, India. Delhi is the first cy India where I met a gay lol.

The night I met him and his group of iends, I had no ia he was gay. Read more later this Delhi gay travel gui and I’ll expla how all happened.

First, I’ll mentn the bt plac for gay travelers to stay Delhi, along wh some awome thgs to do. Gay Delhi: Hotels & Where to Stay. Delhi Gay Hotels.

Check out Mister & Art Hoe if you’re lookg specifilly for a gay hotel Delhi.