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Dutee Chand, India's first openly gay athlete, held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam.

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DUTEE CHAND, INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE, HOLDS PRI FLAG AT CWG 2022

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Dutee Chand, India's first openly gay athlete, held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam. Athlet rryg the LGBTIQ flag (Photo cred: Twter | @MrP)Conmng homophobia, India's first openly gay athlete Dutee Chand has lled for the LGBT+ people to be allowed to live whout "fear of persecutn or ath" facg a barrage of cricism om her fay after announcg she was a same-sex relatnship, to participatg Queen's Baton here to shed light on homophobia Commonwealth untri alongsi Brish synchronised diver and Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley, life has e a full circle for sent a powerful msage agast homophobia as she held an LGBTQIA+ flag at the openg ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Gam.

NEW DELHI — Dutee Chand, a rated Indian sprter, had never heard of Amerin televisn personaly Ellen the days sce Chand beme the untry’s first openly gay athlete, she has received support om around the world — cludg om DeGener — and om unexpected quarters closer to reactn India has been far more supportive than angry, Chand said, a sign of changg mor this untry of more than 1. 3 billn people where gay sex was agast the law until last year. She won a silver medal the 100-meter race the Asian Gam last year, the untry’s first a was also known for succsfully challengg a ban by the untry’s Athletics Feratn after tts found her natural ttosterone level to be higher than that mandated for female g out as a gay athlete was a landmark first even for her.

This month, she revealed she is a same-sex relatnship an terview wh Indian Exprs, which me as a shot the arm for the untry’s gay rights sex was crimalized by the Supreme Court September. However, gay and lbian upl have stggled to bat the stigma associated wh same-sex relatnships. She later thanked DeGener via Twter for standg wh ’s the 100m rerd holr and the first openly gay sportsperson India.

‘BEG LOVE IS NOT A CRIME’: INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE IS SURPRISED BY THE SUPPORT

Indian sprter Dutee Chand has revealed she is a same-sex relatnship, beg the untry’s first openly gay, 23, told the Indian Exprs she was a relatnship wh a woman om her village eastern Odisha state, sayg she found the urage to e out after India’s top urt scrapped a lonial-era ban on gay sex last the terview, Chand said: “I have found someone who is my soulmate. AdvertisementSKIP Armangue/Associated PrsMay 20, 2019A champn sprter wh village roots has bee India’s first openly gay profsnal athlete, ls than a year after the untry’s top urt overturned a longstandg ban on gay sex. She said she was spired to go public after September’s lg by the Indian Supreme Court that unanimoly stck down a lonial-era ban on nsensual gay sex.

SPRTER DUTEE CHAND BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE

Countls gay people there have been shunned by their parents and persecuted by society, and few thk that a same-sex marriage law is on the near Chand said the terview that she hoped to settle down wh her partner sometime after the upg World Champnships and the Olympic Gam Tokyo. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sprter Be India’s First Openly Gay Athlete. Indian sprter and Asian Gam medallist reveals she is a same-sex relatnship wh a woman om her sprter Dutee Chand has revealed she is a same-sex relatnship, beg the first openly gay athlete the socially nservative untry.

Chand, 23, told The Indian Exprs on Sunday she was a relatnship wh a woman om her village eastern Odisha state, sayg she got the urage to e out after India’s top urt scrapped a lonial-era ban on gay sex last year.

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