Karan Johar on beg gay: Everybody knows what my sexual orientatn is - India Today

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• KARAN JOHAR ON BEG GAY: EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS
• KARAN JOHAR RPONDS IF HE'S GAY ON THREADS, SHAR HIS REGRET AND BOLLYWOOD CSH DURG AMA SSN
• WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
• THE REAL TTH BEHD KARAN JOHAR GAY OR NOT?
• IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]

KARAN JOHAR ON BEG GAY: EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS

Karan Johar beg a gay or not has been somethg often talked about.

The report, wh due permissn om Pengu India, also has Karan answerg the big qutn – Is he a gay? “This whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg, ” says Johar.

Karan Johar feels, ‘People talk nonsense, and if a man do not have an extramaral affair, he is supposed to be gay.

KARAN JOHAR RPONDS IF HE'S GAY ON THREADS, SHAR HIS REGRET AND BOLLYWOOD CSH DURG AMA SSN

“I have never ever talked about my orientatn or sexualy bee whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, is my ncern. I have bee like the poster boy of homosexualy this untry.

’ I get this on a daily basis and I’ve learned to lgh off…One man me up to me once very ckily at Heathrow airport and said, ‘Is te that you are a homo?

I’m sad, upset and disheartened wh the trollg that happens on social media… At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg. 16, Banerjee/Getty Imag for Paramount PicturNEW DELHI — The most ubiquo man Bollywood is unr tremendo prsure to utter three simple words: “I am gay.

WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA

”If the three words have acquired the force of absolutn, is bee Karan Johar is by the most famo Indian ever to almost be openly gay. He has done more than anybody to troduce the ia of homosexualy to the Indian home. Johar’s se so much of a piece wh this particular moment India is that while he has been circumspect on his sexual orientatn, he has, both his life and his work, been breathtakgly explic about sex: In 2013, he gave the Indian screen a smolrg gay kiss “Bombay Talki”; two years later, as roast master a ic event that lns saw on YouTube, he joked before a live dience, wh his mother prent, of beg the recipient of anal sex; his new book, that same cur mixture of reticence and ndor pervas.

India right now is the grip of a strange schizophrenia when to gay eedom.

THE REAL TTH BEHD KARAN JOHAR GAY OR NOT?

The gay datg apps are teemg wh activy. Johar’s gay kiss h movie screens across India, the Supreme Court restated Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which plac homosexualy, alongsi btialy, as “agast the orr of nature.

IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]

”What the lg practice has e to mean is that gay sex for the most part is permted — the thori turn a bld eye — but is crimalized on the books, which means of urse that marriage, or even any social or legal acknowledgment of same-sex love, is a distant dream. This has created a society where gay eedoms — which n mean Grdr on one end, and the right to marriage on the other — are rced to rnal pleasure. They acce him of rcg gay characters to effemate parodi.

Apurva Asrani, the script wrer of “Aligarh, ” an affectg film about a gay profsor a Mlim universy town, wrote The Wire: “Sadly Karan’s public image reeks of the very same gay stereotypg that Bollywood famoly propagat — the trated sexual predator, the ic relief, the closeted ‘butt of all jok.

He has troduced the ia of homosexualy by stealth to the Indian home. He was a long way om “Dostana” (“Bromance”), his 2008 romantic edy which two men — both major stars — pretend to be gay so that they n rent an apartment wh a pretty Indian girl abroad.