A Tale Of Two Hearts - A Gay Indian Weddg That Will Make Your Day! ?‍?

Contents:

• INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA
• A TALE OF TWO HEARTS - A GAY INDIAN WEDDG THAT WILL MAKE YOUR DAY! ?‍?
• INDIAN GAY COUPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL
• GAY MARRIAGE
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• GAY MARRIAGE DIA
• IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’ TELANGANA
• MARIAGE LGBT+ : L PL BELL PHOTOS UPL GAYS ET LBIENS

INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA

Image source, Sameer SamudraImage ptn, Sameer (L) and Am stggled to fd a Hdu prit willg to marry themExclud by tradnal marriage ceremoni, Indian-Amerin gay upl the US are fdg new and unique ways to solemnise their unns, reports Sava Patel. I was agonised when one of them quoted an exorbant amount jt bee I am gay!

A TALE OF TWO HEARTS - A GAY INDIAN WEDDG THAT WILL MAKE YOUR DAY! ?‍?

But that's easier said than done for gay upl - even the US where same-sex unns were legalised 2015. More than 300, 000 gay upl have wed the untry sce then.

Templ refg to host same-sex weddgs, prits hangg up on their phone lls or unwillg to tweak the ceremony to su them and, some s, not even showg up on the day of the weddg - the experienc have driven Indian-Amerin gay upl to fall back on iends and well-wishers to create unique ceremoni rooted their culture.

Ashok Sanghavi is a Ja prit who works as a tax nsultant - his vios om 2019 of Vaibhav Ja and Parag Mehta's gay Ja weddg spired many gay upl worldwi. Rellg a recent gay weddg where he officiated, he add "The elrly parents of the groom thanked me wh tears their ey 'for givg our son a place our culture'.

INDIAN GAY COUPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

San Francis, spe s history of acceptance, is woefully short of prits willg to marry gay upl. Its numero Hdu templ don't allow gay weddgs. Our LA-based prit happened to be a gay man who om my muny, " Ms Narayanan said.

I will be more than happy to do if a gay uple approached me.

GAY INDIAN COUPLE HOLDS A TRADNAL WEDDG CEREMONY IN A HDU TEMPLE, AND THEIR PHOTOS GO VIRAL

" Sava Patel is an pennt journalist based San Francis, where she vers geo-polics, tech, public health and the Indian ptn, India's gay prce opens his palace for LGBT muny.

A Tale Of Two Hearts - A Gay Indian Weddg That Will Make Your Day! From Var-Daan to Aashirwad, here's a gay Indian weddg at s ceremonial bt. This #Pri month, we me pretty close to this feelg, when we were blsed wh the chance to nnect wh Parag Mehta and Vaibhav Ja and experience their big, fat, gay Indian weddg.

Nearly a year after the crimalisatn of homosexualy India, gettg a gay weddg remas a tricky affair for most same-sex upl. Those who ci to take the plunge feel the prsure of fay, society and the general public - fact, apart om 'Log Kya Kahenge', the bigger ncern is to ensure that their gay Indian weddg do not bee/make them a lghg stock.

GAY MARRIAGE

From Vardaan to Aashirwaad - A Te Gay Indian weddg. Planng An Ial Gay Indian Weddg.

Especially one that had to be jt right as a gay Indian weddg. Meanwhile, Parag's father was lookg for a weddg prit om the Ja muny to officiate a gay Indian weddg.

The realisatn that they were cuttg rners on their own dreams for a gay Indian weddg changed the experience for the uple.

INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+

They and their fai plunged to planng a Ja, gay Indian weddg.

Overall, the uple feels overwhelmed by the support they received om their parents for this gay Indian weddg. Standg wh them, through all were all the people who mattered to them - the range of 500 weddg guts om both sis, who stepped to make to a tly memorable gay Indian weddg! We were tly humbled by the manner which this real wedd uple chose to share their story wh , hopg that would spire others to not jt open up to a gay Indian weddg wh their hearts, but also support other such dividuals among their fai and circl.

In fact, a few of their vendors (om a bartenr at the weddg to staff at a hotel and a few of the people who helped them wh the tails), wrote back to them about how this gay Indian weddg helped them acknowledge their own inti and those of people around them. Indian gay upl Utkarsh Saxena, left, and Ananya Kotia, chat si a public park New Delhi, India, Jan.

GAY MARRIAGE DIA

The gay upl, now fifteen years to their relatnship, have set out for a bigger challenge and filed a petn to India’s Supreme Court that seeks the legalizatn of same-sex marriage.

Except no one else knew about the gay uple’s was 2008. Homosexualy was yet to ga a gree of acceptance eply nservative India, wh many gay upl facg stigma and isolatn. So Saxena and Kotia took their time, watchg om a distance how people’s acceptance of homosexualy was changg.

”Over the years, as Indian society beme more acceptg of homosexualy and much of the untry’s LGBTQ muny began celebratg their sexualy openly, the uple cid to make their relatnship known to their iends and fay.

IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’ TELANGANA

Three other gay upl have filed siar petns that will be heard by the untry's top urt March. Polil Cartoons on World Lears Polil CartoonsIf legalized, India would bee the send enomy Asia after Taiwan to regnize same-sex marriage, a signifint right for the untry’s LGBTQ muny more than four years after the top urt crimalized gay sex. The historic lg 2018 that stck down a lonial-era law that had ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison expand nstutnal rights for the gay muny.

The cisn was seen as a landmark victory for gay rights, wh one judge sayg would “pave the way for a better future. ”India's Supreme Court has, however, signaled uld challenge the ernment's January, s llegium — prisg the Chief Jtice of India and two Jtic — said the ernment was opposg a gay judge’s nomatn part bee of his sexual orientatn. India’s feral ernment did not rpond to the upl and LGBTQ activists argue that by refg to regnize same-sex marriage, the ernment is privg homosexual upl of their right to equaly enshred the nstutn and opportuni enjoyed by married heterosexual upl.

Gay and lbian upl are not allowed to have children born wh the help of an Indian surrogate mother.

MARIAGE LGBT+ : L PL BELL PHOTOS UPL GAYS ET LBIENS

And LGBTQ persons n only apply for adoptn as sgle such upl believe that legal regnn of same-sex marriage would not jt be a val step toward equaly but also rult more people g out as homosexuals and strengtheng their relatnship wh the state. Homosexualy has long rried a stigma India’s tradnal society, even though there has been a shift attus toward same-sex upl recent years. India now has openly gay celebri and some high-profile Bollywood films have alt wh gay issu.

Acrdg to a Pew survey, acceptance of homosexualy India creased by 22 percentage pots to 37% between 2013 and many same-sex upl ntue to face harassment many Indian muni, whether Hdu, Mlim or December, India's LGBTQ muny found support om an unexpected head of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hdu natnalist group that is the iologil parent of Modi’s party, said LGBTQ people are “a part of the Indian society” and that Indian civilizatn has tradnally acknowledged the muny.

Mohan Bhagwat's ments, which uld force the ernment to reasss s posn, were a parture om the group’s long-held views on homosexualy, which has a tangled history India, even though some of Hduism’s most ancient texts are acceptg of same-sex upl.