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Contents:

• SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
• GAY SIKH
• GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
• BEG SIKH, GAY AND GROWG UP NEW YORK

SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”

It is also a fah where, for a long time, no large-sle discsns around the topic of homosexualy have taken place wh the muny (for good or bad). I was Sikh, and later I realized I was gay, and both of the were part of me, and I did not thk beg one meant givg up on the other.

But as I started unrstandg my sexualy more, beme part of var onle queer groups and muni, and joed some of the gay datg webs, I started yearng to see gay men who looked like me – wh a turban and beard. Many profil on gay datg s also mentned “No Sikhs, ” or “No Sardars” [Ed: another term for Sikhs]. Instead of the clean-shaved look that most gay men seemed to have and prefer, my turban and facial hair (along wh the texts the datg s) sowed a doubt my md that no one would ever want to date me, g to a lot of body-image issu that took a while to go.

GAY SIKH

But spe not beg relig myself, my experienc as a gay man were startg to get shaped bee of my relig inty.

GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV

As a 22 year old, I lnched a LGBT e-magaze lled Gaylaxy  2010 to provi a platform for the muny to nnect wh each other.

BEG SIKH, GAY AND GROWG UP NEW YORK

I wanted to assure other young queer Sikhs that one uld be gay and Sikh, and live their life openly.