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• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
• FAMO GAY MEN INDIA
• 7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY
• 10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

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.

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

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!

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.

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

He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny. “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.

FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

“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. 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.

7 GREATT GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD FILMS THAT HELPED US OPEN OUR MDS ABOUT THE COMMUNY

Today, such films are wily unrstood to be homophobic. 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.

10 COUNTRI WH THE BIGGT GAY POPULATNS THE WORLD

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

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.