GAY IN: MUMBAI - A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUIDE - Our Taste For Life

Contents:

• GAY SNA/PUBS INDIA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• GAY MUMBAI - MUMBAI FOM
• GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI
• MUMBAI: GAY AND LBIAN
• GAY DATG MUMBAI

GAY SNA/PUBS INDIA - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

For travelers to India, there is a general perceptn that India is closed to Gay travelers, the untry is largely nservative however the bigger ci like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are more acceptg of gay people. Delhi has some good gay sna's (of urse the are no where close the large morn sna's Europe / Thailand, but atleast a begng has been ma). I fd Delhi the most gay iendly after the Delhi High Court passed a judgment strikg the Sectn 377.

The bt gay sna is Spartac (they have a webse too) and is que happeng on Fri / Sat.

The other gay massage jot is Kalpkaya South Delhi - East of Kailash ( you n google out) this is not as nice as Spartac but like they say ' change is the spice of life' rather than visg the same sna everyday, you uld try this one. On Tue the pegsnpts offers a good night a gay nightclub each tue for the longt time but I gus there mt be many more that has e up now. Mumbai has several excellent hotels, all of which would be suable, gay or otherwise.

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Certaly the top hotels are very ed to alg wh a variety of clientele om around the world, and there is no "gay-specific" reason to pick one over the other my view. (HT PHOTO) “Before everythg, there was Gokul, ” says Ashok Row Kavi, 71, and one of India’s earlit gay activists. Gay parti were rtricted to the hom of rich men the 1970s, “meetg men at Gokul began happeng the mid ’80s, ” he says.

VOODOO, COLABA By the 1990s the actn spread to Voodoo, a pub at the end of the Gateway promena, and possibly India’s first gay-iendly hangout. KARMA LOUNGE, OPERA HOUSE The now-funct rtrant (’s been replaced by Canto) was popular for gay parti durg the post-liberalisatn boom of the ’90s.

Eventually Hotels Dadar, Andheri, Juhu, Chembur and Ghatkopar started hostg parti anised by gay clubs, wh entry fe (dner, drks and dancg) for as ltle as ₹100. But events around the year tackle at gay issu outsi of activism and, the Lab‘s own words “nfigur new ways of exprsg and celebratg queerns”.

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NCPA, NARIMAN POINT This is where, December 1996, India screened s first gay-themed film.

Riyad Vci Wadia’s Bomgay was based on poems by R Raj Rao. The short film roped iends like Rahul Bose as the st, and shot at the cy’s gay clubs, men’s public toilets and Apsara Theatre at Lamgton Road. GADKARI RANGAYATAN, THANE This is where Mrachi Ghosta, Vijay Tendulkar’s play about a llege stunt who realis she is lbian, buted 1981.

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The story is of a mother who disvers, that her ad son was gay and may have driven another young man to suici. But what is like to be Gay Mumbai?

We learnt that followg the historic 2018 cisn to crimalise homosexualy India, the gay scene Mumbai is fact on the rise. We certaly hadn’t heard of any ht of a gay scene the lik of Jaipur, Varanasi, or even Goa!

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Asis om the gay scene, she is a paradoxil cy.

You’ll fd a list of gay-iendly hotels and bars and our top tips as an LGBT uple Mumbai. Gay : Mumbai – A LGBTQ+ Travel Gui. Thankfully, September 2018, a historic cisn, saw acts of homosexualy crimalised India.

Gay marriage and same-sex adoptn are currently unr review by the India law missn. And India even has an openly gay prce! Is Mumbai safe for Gay Travellers?

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The gay ‘scene’, once ncealed to the unrworld, is slowly beg accepted both socially and polilly, wh regular events poppg up around the cy.

Gay Bars & Events Mumbai. The legal uncertati of the past two s meant that until recently, gay bars & events Mumbai were kept hidn unrground.

While you won’t fd a thrivg gay scene like London or Bangkok, there are several LGBT centred events Mumbai. Here are some rourc that will help you plan a fun-filled gay night out the cy.