Pri Month 2021 Date, Theme, Quot: In many parts of the world, June is the ‘Gay Pri Month’, dited to celebratg the LGBTQ muny and their stggle agast discrimatn and social ostracisatn.
Contents:
- INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME
- HUNDREDS JO PRI MARCH INDIA, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- FROM ANGER TO PRI: KOLKATA'S EVOLUTN OF EMBRACG GAY RIGHTS
- HUNDREDS JO PRI MARCH INDIA, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- 10 THGS INDIA’S DONE RIGHT FOR ITS LGBTQ COMMUNY THIS YEAR #GAYPRIMONTH
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- NEW DELHI GAY PARA – PICTUR
- INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME
- INDIA’S GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEIZE MOMENTUM AFTER LANDMARK RULG
- FROM ANGER TO PRI: KOLKATA'S EVOLUTN OF EMBRACG GAY RIGHTS
INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME
The streets of New Delhi were awash rabow lors on Sunday as hundreds of gay rights activists marched the 10th annual Queer Pri para. The untry's gay pri march is particularly noteworthy bee India, gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison. "The march on Sunday showed the growg support for gay rights India and the willgns of Indians to stand up for the issue.
A participant displays a piece of cloth wh lors of the rabow as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg a gay pri para New Delhi, India, Nov. 12, om Getty ImagIndian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny take part a pri para New Delhi on November 12, 2017. Hundreds of members of the LGBT muny marched through the Indian pal for the 10th annual Delhi Queer Pri om Getty ImagIndian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny take part a pri para New Delhi on November 12, 2017.
Two participants hold hands and dance as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg a gay pri para New Delhi, India, Nov.
HUNDREDS JO PRI MARCH INDIA, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
12, APEmbed om Getty ImagAn Indian supporter of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny wearg a pollutn mask hold a plard as he tak part a pri para New Delhi on November 12, 2017.
Participants displays a rabow flag and cheer as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg a gay pri para New Delhi, India, Nov. Hundreds of gay rights activists and supporters, many wearg lorful stum and holdg balloons, marched through India's pal on Sunday celebratn but also fiance a natn that ntu to outlaw homosexual acts. Manak Matiyani, one of the anizers, said his wealth and tn allowed him to live as openly gay but was much harr for those wh ls privilege.
Indian law mak gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison.
FROM ANGER TO PRI: KOLKATA'S EVOLUTN OF EMBRACG GAY RIGHTS
Over the past , homosexuals have gaed some gree of acceptance India, pecially big ci.
Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have alt wh gay issu.
But beg gay is still seen as shameful most of the untry, and many homosexuals rema closeted.
HUNDREDS JO PRI MARCH INDIA, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
PhotographyCollectns of 'gay' (and sometim 'lbian' or 'transsexual') news clippgs and foreign magaz secretly stored away an almirah at home; a clutch of books too, cludg Shakuntala Devi's The World of Homosexuals. Some intify as 'gay', others as 'kothi' or 'dhurani', but many others uldn't be bothered wh inti.
Cake baked by a gay man's mother for the group's fifth birthday falls short as an unexpected number of people turn up for the party at Kolkata's Gee Bhawan....
This, of urse, is only a slice of the realy as wnsed and lived by one person, the thor-an urban, nomally Hdu, English-enabled, gay intified male. The only queerns promently visible is that of the hijra muni, ironilly also among the most margalised social are ocsnal sparks of bold visibily like a monstratn to prott the Delhi Police's harassment of queer people public parks Augt 1992; the first petn agast Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co by AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan 1994; the Humsafar Tst-Naz Foundatn nference for gay men and other men who have sex wh men Mumbai December 1994; or the 1997 nference on lbian, gay and bisexual rights also Mumbai anised by Stree Sangam (now Labia) and other queer and human rights visibily be a trend and tak on new dimensns the send half of the '90s and 2000s, wh books (Ruth Vana and Saleem Kidwai's Same Sex Love India), plays (Shantanu Nagpal's O Come Bulky Stomach), ballets (The Alien Flower by Sapphire Creatns Dance Workshop, Kolkata) and other artistic creatns themed on same-sex love makg an appearance.
10 THGS INDIA’S DONE RIGHT FOR ITS LGBTQ COMMUNY THIS YEAR #GAYPRIMONTH
So do film ftivals which start wh the Friends of Siddhartha ftival Delhi 1993 ( memory of the late activist Siddhartha Gtam) and quickly make an appearance several ci across epiphany of sorts happens when at an NGO fair Kolkata 1998 a visor om a neighbourg stall flips through pi of Pravartak and yet argu that there uldn't be any homosexuals India.
What was once spoken about maly terms of 'transsexual' (and often as an afterthought to l-bi-gay) brgs forth a dazzlg diversy queer lexin, exprsns and polics. “The gay Pri is an ocsn to celebrate the eedom to be who you are and feel proud of the sexual orientatn you are born wh.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
The Mumbai Gay Pri started almost a ago is the largt pri India by the name of Queer Azadi March and has bee like an ternatnal ftival attractg lots of foreigners across the globe.
Hundreds of gay rights activists and supporters, many wearg lorful stum, have marched through India's pal celebratn but also fiance a natn that ntu to outlaw homosexualy. A participant wears a pollutn mask as gay rights activists and their supporters march durg a gay pri para New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC / Source: The Associated PrsNEW DELHI — Hundreds of gay rights activists and supporters, many wearg lorful stum and holdg balloons, marched through India's pal on Sunday celebratn but also fiance a natn that ntu to outlaw homosexual people chanted and marched to the beat of dms durg New Delhi's 10th annual Queer Pri march, many said they were trated wh the law but also hoped would soon change.
"Manak Matiyani, one of the anizers, said his wealth and tn allowed him to live as openly gay but was much harr for those wh ls privilege. "We're fightg for the right of everybody this untry to live as an equal cizen, which means that everybody should be able to live their life the way they want to, " he law mak gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison.
NEW DELHI GAY PARA – PICTUR
Matiyani said the law is often ed by the police and muny members to threaten people or extort money om Indian supporter of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny tak part a pri para New Delhi on November 12, HUSSAIN / AFP - Getty ImagIn 2009, the New Delhi High Court clared the law unnstutnal. Last year, the top urt said would rensir s the past , homosexuals have gaed some gree of acceptance India, pecially big ci.
Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have alt wh gay beg gay is still seen as shameful most of the untry, and many homosexuals rema closeted.
India's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny held s first ever gay pri para the wtern state of Gujarat. It’s not easy beg gay India.
INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME
Lucknow hosted s first Gay Pri march (the first cy UP to do so), and people loved !
INDIA’S GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEIZE MOMENTUM AFTER LANDMARK RULG
Trailer of Eveng Shadows, directed by Sridhar Rangayan was was released at the 8th KASHISH Mumbai Internatnal Queer Film Ftival. Two succsful Bollywood movi, Aligarh and Kapoor & Sons, ma a lot of people happy for their posive pictn of gay inti.
FROM ANGER TO PRI: KOLKATA'S EVOLUTN OF EMBRACG GAY RIGHTS
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