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Explore our gay travel gui to India featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!

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10 THGS INDIA’S DONE RIGHT FOR ITS LGBTQ COMMUNY THIS YEAR #GAYPRIMONTH

* india gay pride *

It’s not easy beg gay India. Lucknow hosted s first Gay Pri march (the first cy UP to do so), and people loved ! 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.

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

Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * india gay pride *

is the mega cy of India, offerg the bt gay life the untry, and is also well known for Maharashtra mic, dance and ntankis (street theatre). The Khajaraho templ are famo for their erotic sculptur that nta several pictns of ancient homosexual activy.

While homosexualy has been crimalized, ’s still advisable to exercise utn wh same-sex public affectn.

INDIA’S GAY PRI

The Pri tradn is well and makg s way around India as ci like Nagpur and Chandigarh jo the chos for liberatn and stabily. The LGBTQ Pri month is celebrated June each year to honour the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, nsired a tippg pot for the gay liberatn movement the US * india gay pride *

Gay men should be reful of lol mal who target them as potential sexual enunters, and then mand money to not report them to police, who are also often volved the sm.

THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA

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. * india gay pride *

Many ci also have anizatns like Gay Bombay, which allows visg LGBTQ+ people to teract wh lol muni prr to their arrival.

India has a vast array of gay-iendly acmodatn optns, such as holiday mps, e-iendly jungle rorts, tree ho, and hoeboats that range om budget to luxury. Throughout the state there’s a sense of openns among the lols, who are more acceptg of diversy, wh several gay-iendly tablishments and parti anized on a recurrg basis.

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people.

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