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Contents:

• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• PRI MONTH: SANJAY SURI AND PURAB KOHLI ON PLAYG A GAY UPLE MY BROTHER…NIKHIL
• GAY UPLE OM HYRABAD TI THE KNOT; SEE CELEBRATORY PICS
• RABOW P AND KISS: BOLLYWOOD'S FIRST GAY ROM- 'BREAKS STEREOTYP'
• BOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY ROM- IS GOG VIRAL AMID DISCRIMATN, VLENCE
• BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
• INDIAN AMERIN GAY UPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR TRADNAL HDU WEDDG ANNOUNC FIRST BABY
• LOVE STORY OF AN INDIAN GAY COUPLE WHO FALLY GOT MARRIED

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. But who are India’s gay celebri? Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out.

Here’s a list of India’s top lbian, gay, and bisexual stars. Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay. Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights!

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

Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema. He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny.

PRI MONTH: SANJAY SURI AND PURAB KOHLI ON PLAYG A GAY UPLE MY BROTHER…NIKHIL

“The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs. Not long after India’s top urt overturned a lonial era law crimalizg homosexualy, Shelly Chopra Dhar and Gazal Dhaliwal’s 2019 edy-drama “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” picted a queer woman’s attempt to e out to her fay.

“Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020), “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021) and “Badhaai Do” (2022) each feature gay or trans characters relatnships who eventually e up agast disapprovg fay members. ) Still, as one of the first Indian films to pict homosexualy on screen, igned a discsn about sexualy and LGBTQ rights morn India. In the years that followed, dramas such as “My Brother… Nikhil” (2005) and “Margara Wh A Straw” (2014) portrayed queer characters sensively – the former is the story of a man diagnosed wh HIV who battl homophobia om his parents and Indian thori, while the latter is about a bisexual teenager wh cerebral palsy who falls love wh a young bld activist.

GAY UPLE OM HYRABAD TI THE KNOT; SEE CELEBRATORY PICS

It was more mon, however, for Indian films to rce LGBTQ characters to stereotyp or to voke homosexualy for edic purpos.

The 2004 film “Girliend” featur a lbian character who is jealo and vdictive and ultimately meets a tragic end – a textbook example of the “bury your gays” trope. And the 2008 smash h “Dostana, ” about two men who pretend to be a uple so they n share an apartment wh a woman, is rife wh ritured notns of gay men. Today, such films are wily unrstood to be homophobic.

RABOW P AND KISS: BOLLYWOOD'S FIRST GAY ROM- 'BREAKS STEREOTYP'

In “Dostana, ” for stance, the character Sameer’s mother is at first distrght at the thought of her son beg gay but ultimately to love and accept his (fake) partner as a son--law – that moment, when removed om s te ntext, is relatively progrsive for s time. In 1861, the lonial ernment troduced a law crimalizg homosexualy, which stood ntrast to centuri of lol cultural attus around sexualy and was only overturned 2018. “Thereafter, ted Indians, cludg all natnalists om right to left and everythg between, ternalized the Wtern ia that homosexualy is unnatural, abnormal, a s and a crime, ” Vana wrote an email to CNN.

Many Hdi films om the ’50s to the ‘80s pict tense male iendships that n be terpreted as gay, said Vana.

BOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY ROM- IS GOG VIRAL AMID DISCRIMATN, VLENCE

“What we do know is that homosexualy was well attted Bombay film-makg circl; film-makers were not naïve about .

BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'

As stigmas around homosexualy and genr fluidy persist India, LGBTQ muni South Asia and the diaspora have reclaimed certa Bollywood songs about iendship as their own, said Anjaria. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, ” a story about a gay uple stgglg to be accepted by their fai, allus to the inic motorbike scene “Sholay” and clus nods to films such as 1964’s “Dosti.

But so far, mastream Hdi films pictg LGBTQ love stori have flopped at the box office — a realy that filmmakers and actors volved the projects have attributed to homophobia and cultural stigma India. Dpe beg the 21st century, discsns around the topic of homosexualy tend to be regrsive as many ntue to look at people wh "different" sexual orientatn as a subject of mockery. The recent cint, where a man Delhi had to stand up for the LGBTQIA+ muny after hearg the dience crackg homophobic jok while watchg Badhaai Do, which featur a lbian uple played by Chum Darang and Bhumi READ: 'Fally My Communy Has A Film', Rajkummar Rao's Sister--Law Parnalekha Lds 'Badhaai Do'.

Intertgly, Apurva Asrani, who is among the few openly gay men the dtry, opened up about his sexual orientatn back 1998. As per reports, Vasu Primlani is among the first openly gay stand up edian. Makg her directnal but 2005 wh Amu, Shonali is known for litely tacklg subjects around sexualy and spreadg awarens about the LsInstagramShant DivgikarFrom appearg on realy shows to beg crowned Mr Gay India 2014, mol Shant Divgikar has ...

INDIAN AMERIN GAY UPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR TRADNAL HDU WEDDG ANNOUNC FIRST BABY

Read MoreFrom appearg on realy shows to beg crowned Mr Gay India 2014, mol Shant Divgikar has e a long way. In an terview, the Indian novelist and poet had shared how he wish that homosexuals across the untry would be able to be open about their sexualy and e out. Vikram, who openly intifi himself as a bi-sexual, was also ld for his opns on homosexualy Ls.

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020), a romantic edy about a gay uple danced s way to the box office. However, last year, when Ayhmann Khurrana starred romantic edy, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan(SMZS)about a gay uple, was lapped up by the dienc and danced s way to the box office.

TV has the wist reach and sends out the wrong msage, that bothers me, ” she Kewalya, who himself had been brought up the atmosphere of bias and homophobic culture, was important to show the muny the right light through his film. “Ma Heaven (featurg Arjun Mathur as gay) was a breakthrough terms of the reprentatn.

LOVE STORY OF AN INDIAN GAY COUPLE WHO FALLY GOT MARRIED

There’s clichéd reprentatn films, which provi ic relief to the homophobic lot.

At a time when homosexualy was rarely mentned Bollywood films and same-sex relatnships were not a part of the mastream narrative, Sanjay Suri and Purab Kohli dared to take on the film My Brother…Nikhil. The 2005-film, which portrayed the story of two gay men, also touched upon the subject of AIDS. In the ongog Pri Month, we tch up wh the film’s lead actors, Sanjay and Purab, who speak about beg a part of the film and the kd of appreciatn they received om the dience and gay muny.