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Contents:

• LGBT INDIA: WHAT 'S LIKE SIX MONTHS AFTER GAY SEX WAS CRIMALISED
• INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
• AS INDIA AWAS A HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, A CY HOLDS S FIRST PRI MARCH
• INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME
• GAY PRIDE OF DUNNVILLE CA
• INDIAN GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI

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

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.

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. 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. SOPA Imag via Getty ImagSOPA Imag via Getty ImagA man rri a rabow flag next to police at the Pri Imag via Getty ImagCubaYAMIL LAGE via Getty ImagA uple kiss the pri para durg the celebratn of the day agast homophobia and transphobia Havana, on May 12, 2018.

INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG

YAMIL LAGE via Getty ImagYAMIL LAGE via Getty ImagMariela Castro, center, dghter of Cuban former Print Rl Castro and the director of the Natnal Center for Sex Edutn (CENESEX), participat the Gay Pri para durg the celebratn of the day agast homophobia and transphobia LAGE via Getty ImagAlbaniaGENT SHKULLAKU via Getty ImagAn Albanian LGBTQ activist wav a rabow flag as she attends Tirana Gay Pri to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on the ma boulevard Tirana on May 13, SHKULLAKU via Getty ImagGENT SHKULLAKU via Getty ImagGENT SHKULLAKU via Getty ImagJapanNurPhoto via Getty ImagParticipants march the Tokyo Rabow Pri para on the streets of Tokyo, Japan May 6, 2018.

AS INDIA AWAS A HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, A CY HOLDS S FIRST PRI MARCH

NurPhoto via Getty ImagNurPhoto via Getty ImagParticipants drsed weddg cloth march the Tokyo Rabow Pri BUREAU via Getty ImagMARTIN BUREAU via Getty ImagAtraliaSAEED KHAN via Getty ImagPeople participate the annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Sydney on March 3, 2018.

Rabow lours beamed om fac and floats paradg through Sydney March 3 as hundreds of thoands of partygoers celebrated 40 years of the annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

/ AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN (Photo cred should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Imag)IndiaSAM PANTHAKY via Getty ImagIndian members and supporters of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr muny take part the 'Ahmedabad Queer Pri 2018' para Ahmedabad, India on Feb. Pacific Prs via Getty ImagGUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA - 2018/02/11: 5th QUEER PRIDE Walk March through the streets to reclaim space for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Inter-sex and Asexual persons. MexiDaniel Becerril / RtersMembers of the LGBTQ muny rry the rabow flag durg the Lbian and Gay Pri rally at the Bellas Art Palace Mexi Cy, Mexi on Jan.

INDIA GAY PRI PARA SHOWS HOPE FOR COUNTRY WHERE BEG GAY IS STILL A CRIME

In s 2013 lg, the Supreme Court said that only a “mcule actn of the untry’s populatn nstute lbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenrs” and was therefore “legally unstaable” to repeal the act. In an terview earlier this year, lawmaker Subramanian Swamy, a proment member of the lg Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), scribed the legalizatn of gay sex as a “danger to natnal secury” and “agast Hdutva. Out of the timated 48 former Brish loni that crimalize homosexualy, 30 still have laws based on the origal lonial anti-LGBT legislatn, acrdg to Lus Mendos, -thor of the 2017 Internatnal LGBTI Associatn “State-Sponsored Homophobia” report.

Revelers rry a giant rabow flag durg Lisbon's Gay Pri para on June 16, 2018, Lisbon, Armando Fran/APEmbed om Getty ImagPeople n unr a rabow flag as is rried the 48th annual LA Pri Para on June 10, 2018, the Hollywood sectn of Los Angel and Wt Hollywood, California. Revelers extend a flag durg the annual gay pri para Sao Plo, Brazil, June 3, Nelson Antoe/APEmbed om Getty ImagRevellers take part the annual Gay Pri para on June 8, 2018 Tel Aviv, om Getty ImagA reveller raise her fist at the end of the Gay Pri para downtown Rome, Italy, on June 9, 2018.

GAY PRIDE OF DUNNVILLE CA

Embed om Getty ImagPeople take part the annual Gay Pri para San Juan, Puerto Ri, on June 3, om Getty ImagParticipants wh rabow flag durg the Motor Cy Pri Para at Detro, Michigan on June 10, om Getty ImagRevellers take part the annual Gay Pri para on June 8, 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel. BHUBANESWAR, India — Adya Das traveled six hours on a b to this eastern Indian cy to attend his first gay pri para on looked around at the crowd as people wove past traffic and templ, holdg rabow flags and gltery signs an exuberant celebratn of gay inty.

But some ways, the historic lg is merely tchg up wh signifint shifts Indian society, where taboos around gay inty are rapidly recent years, more than 30 Indian ci — cludg Bhubanwar, the pal of Odisha state — have held their first gay pri paras. Gay stereotyp are beg challenged film and mass culture, too — a handful of recent blockbter Bollywood films have shown gay characters not jt as ritur or edy figur, but as layered protagonists or supportg out India remas difficult, however. Even the movement’s most vol champns — some of the anizers of the cy’s first pri march — have not told their parents they are gay or that they attend the change is afoot.

Five years ago, that would have been nceivable, he volunteers wh an unrground anizatn that tri to intify lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people and teach them about sexual health and overg bullyg.

INDIAN GAY PRI PARA DRAWS THOANDS

Datg apps such as Grdr and Tr have allowed gay people to disver one another and explore their own para was a novelty this cy — most of the marchers and anizers had prevly seen pri events only on YouTube or photographs onle. In 2009, Delhi’s High Court abolished Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which outlaws voluntary “rnal terurse agast the orr of nature, ” effectively legalizg gay sex.

But that verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court then, gay activists have created a huge public movement agast the ban, which on rare ocsns has been ed to prosecute gay people but is equently ed by police and vigilante groups to blackmail and threaten closeted members of the gay muny. “We have a mother, drsed que nservatively a sari, stg next to her gay child on natnal televisn and makg the most radil argument — that Sectn 377 go agast fay valu.

IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI

Bee of the hijras’ promence, ernment forms have a separate box for those who intify as “third genr, ” and many stat provi welfare programs such as subsidized tn for trans many here have never enuntered openly gay, lbian or bisexual people and still do not believe they exist Bhubanwar, said Bijaya Biswal, one of the anizers of the pri event. Many who attend talked about the need for further legal protectns and rights to protect the LGBTQ muny, and the next steps for the gay movement — such as rights to marriage and adoptn. “A new fight begs now, ” said Venkath Kodula, 26, who travels around the untry attendg pri march and has been to ne this Das, the visor attendg his first pri march, beg able to walk the streets and shout about his gay inty reprents a sign of progrs.