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
Contents:
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
- OUT AND PROUD: FAMO INDIAN PERSONALI WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
- INDIAN GAY CELEBRI WHO CAME OUT AND ARE PROUD OF
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
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In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out. Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay.
Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights! Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema.
He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny. “The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs.
INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
* gay bollywood personalities *
Dpe beg the 21st century, discsns around the topic of homosexualy tend to be regrsive as many ntue to look at people wh "different" sexual orientatn as a subject of mockery. The recent cint, where a man Delhi had to stand up for the LGBTQIA+ muny after hearg the dience crackg homophobic jok while watchg Badhaai Do, which featur a lbian uple played by Chum Darang and Bhumi READ: 'Fally My Communy Has A Film', Rajkummar Rao's Sister--Law Parnalekha Lds 'Badhaai Do'.
FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
While the Supreme Court may have crimalised homosexualy, there are still some Indians who are gay and proud and leadg the e. Here’s who they are! * gay bollywood personalities *
Intertgly, Apurva Asrani, who is among the few openly gay men the dtry, opened up about his sexual orientatn back 1998. As per reports, Vasu Primlani is among the first openly gay stand up edian.
Makg her directnal but 2005 wh Amu, Shonali is known for litely tacklg subjects around sexualy and spreadg awarens about the LsInstagramShant DivgikarFrom appearg on realy shows to beg crowned Mr Gay India 2014, mol Shant Divgikar has ...
Read MoreFrom appearg on realy shows to beg crowned Mr Gay India 2014, mol Shant Divgikar has e a long way. In an terview, the Indian novelist and poet had shared how he wish that homosexuals across the untry would be able to be open about their sexualy and e out. Vikram, who openly intifi himself as a bi-sexual, was also ld for his opns on homosexualy Ls.
OUT AND PROUD: FAMO INDIAN PERSONALI WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
It was touted as the first big budget movie to openly revolve around a homosexual settg. The st featured big name actors cludg Priyanka Chopra and for the longt time, if you ed “gay” and “Bollywood” the same sentence, people would jt tomatilly assume you’d be talkg about spe beg a movie that profed off homosexualy, s plot did not actually revolve around… homosexualy.
What ltle bs did have about homosexualy me wh digs and edic remarks about . Back then, Bollywood had the exce of same-sex terurse beg crimalised and so, there was more stigma attached to then 2018, Sectn 377 was amend, and nsensual gay sex was no longer crimalised.
INDIAN GAY CELEBRI WHO CAME OUT AND ARE PROUD OF
It jt promoted the stereotype that gay men are after heterosexual men. Y, to a certa extent, gay people are liberated about their sexualy, but we don’t borrle strip dance for a rich man jt bee he says “play mic”, and that too on a classil song! I mean, I know people who learn classil dance, I know people who are gay, and I know people who are gay and learn classil dance.
Some si gay characters have, once aga, jt been shown as cliched gay characters. Lookg back, hurts bee you know the people who’d see would f their bras that ‘gay toh aise hi hote hai’, and that is where the problem aris.
”Betta Naan Stop, 27, drag queenWTF queer character: The gay fielr om Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya“I don't know his name; I don't thk there even is a name. The mic is trmatisg to me bee I have been the victim of ndng that this was how gay people were.