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HDI GAY STORI
Yeh kahani laghbhag do saal pehle tab shu huyi jab ma apni nkri se rign kerke kuch d ke liye ghar gaya tha. Abhi doosri jagah jo kerne me kuch samay tha socha kuch d Maa Baap ke Saath reh loon. Papa tab Bhagalpur shift ker chey they r Kahalgaon me thermal power hoe ke… * gay story india *
In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was.
There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home.
To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”.
HDI GAY STORI
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He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.
Parmh, 39 | Head, Godrej India Culture Lab, and thor of Gay Bombay: Globalizatn Love and (Be)longg Contemporary IndiaThere are many g out stori my se. I cid to host the get-together at a gay bar lled The Abbey.
I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
Most of my iends had no ia about me beg gay, or about this particular bar beg a gay one.