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LILLY SGH AND YOEF ERAKAT RELATNSHIP TIMELE- GAY RUMORS AND PARTNER EXPLORED
Dpe a vast rerve of rourc beg available on the ter to pore over and learn om, a large sectn of the populatn believ that bisexual dividuals are simply “gog through a phase”, that they are more promiscuo and therefore require a wir range of “optns”, or more trimentally, that bisexualy is a gateway to homosexualy. She said there is a lot of homophobia the Indian muny, and that before she me out, there were people her muny who jt didn’t unrstand LGBTQ issu. But the fay’s reactn was right out of a handbook, bee beg gay is still related to shame most South Asian South Asian fai the Wt still fd difficult to even talk about sex, and would rather have believe babi are born om holdg hands, let alone discs sexualy outsi of a tradnal heterosexual relatnship.
It was around this time she actually found Sgh’s vios and even though they weren’t anythg to do wh beg gay, they were about self-love—exactly what Hunter need at the time. And that’s ually what a lot of LGBTQI South Asians also discs among themselv—how to e out when they’re unsure whether their parents even know what beg gay Nagra, a 34-year-old Canadian wh Punjabi herage, me out to her parents 10 years ago. The Vanuver illtrator scrib her g out as an “impactful experience”, a nversatn which fished wh her mother givg her the tightt hug of her gay is almost a taboo the subntent—lack of tn, awarens, and the fact that no South Asian public figure, at least no one wh Sgh’s profile, has acknowledged their sexualy.
Nagra relled her iend’s g out to his mother, who thought he wanted a sex change when he told her he was Bollywood, which produc hundreds of movi watched by lns around the world, until as recently as this year has never openly clud homosexualy as a part of s ma storyle, but rather only picted facetly through movi like Dostana, starrg the middle of such tightly packed silence, when a world popular role mol like Lilly Sgh forward, she’s almost forcg people to have a much need nversatn. A recent high school graduate India, who intifi herself as queer and gay, has been followg Sgh’s vios sce 2013.