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• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KATHMANDU
• GAY KATHMANDU
• GAY TRAVEL NEPALSEE ALL THGS TO DO{"@TYPE":"LOLBS","NAME":"GAY TRAVEL NEPAL","URL":"\","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"CHAKSIBARI MARG, THAMEL NEAR BY HOTEL MANANG","ADDRSLOLY":"KATHMANDU","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"NEPAL","POSTALCO":"1683"},"OPENGHOURS":["MO-TU 08:15-19:45","WE,TH,FR,SU 08:00-20:00","SA 10:00-18:15"],"IMAGE":"HTTPS:\U002F\\U002FMEDIA\U002FPHOTO-O\U002F1B\U002F05\U002F39\U002F7A\","@NTEXT":"HTTP:\U002F\"}SEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY TRAVEL NEPAL#271 OF 343 TRANSPORTATN KATHMANDUMULTI-DAY TOURS • SAFARIS • TAXIS & SHUTTL • BIKE TOURS • CLIMBG TOURS • HIKG & CAMPG TOURS • PRIVATE TOURS • NATURE & WILDLIFE TOURS • SELF-GUID TOURS & RENTALS • DAY TRIPSREAD MOREOPEN NOW8:00 AM - 8:00 PMMONDAY8:15 AM - 7:45 PMTUDAY8:15 AM - 7:45 PMWEDNDAY8:00 AM - 8:00 PMTHURSDAY8:00 AM - 8:00 PMFRIDAY8:00 AM - 8:00 PMSATURDAY10:00 AM - 6:15 PMSUNDAY8:00 AM - 8:00 PMWRE A REVIEWABOUTPK MOUNTA IS THE PROFSNAL GAY AND LBIAN TRIP ANIZER AGENCY NEPAL. PK MOUNTA IS OFFERG TOUR, TREKKG PACKAG FOR OUR VALUABLE GAY VISORS WHO WISH TO VIS NEPAL AND EXPLORE THE NATURE, ADVENTURE, PILGRIMAGE, MEDATN, NATURAL THERAPY, CULTURE, HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, FOOD, DIVERSY OF NEPAL. WE ARE MTED TO FELL YOU NEPAL AS A BT HOLIDAYS STATN.READ MOREKATHMANDU, NEPALFEATUR ANIMALSCALLEMAILVIS WEBSECONTACTSIAR EXPERIENC2023LANDG EVERT BASE CAMP BY HELIPTER DAY TOUR OM KATMANDU 362HELIPTER TOURSOM $1,300.00 PER ADULTBHAKTAPUR AND NAGARKOT DAY TOUR FROM KATHMANDU604WD TOURSOM $60.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)3-DAY CHWAN NATNAL PARK JUNGLE SAFARI TOUR PACKAGE WH PICK UP72B TOURSOM $190.00 PER ADULTPRIVATE KATHMANDU SIGHTSEEG TOUR - UNESCO WORLD HERAGE S190LUXURY CAR TOURSOM $49.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)WALKG STREET FOOD TOUR KATHMANDU28FOOD & DRKOM $55.00 PER ADULT1 NIGHT 2 DAYS CHWAN JUNGLE SAFARI TOUR OM KATHMANDU6B TOURSOM $128.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)WHOLE DAY MASSAGE & SPA WH LUNCH39SPASOM $101.54 PER ADULTNEPALI COOKG CLASS KATHMANDU44FOOD & DRKOM $34.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)NAGARKOT SUNRISE VIEW AND DAY HIKG OM KATHMANDU239CAR TOURSOM $85.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)ANNAPURNA BASE MP TREK 5 DAYS 854WD TOURSOM $699.00 PER ADULTGAY TRAVEL NEPALBOOKG UNAVAILABLE ON TRIPADVISORWANT OTHER OPTNS YOU N BOOK NOW?SHOW OPTNSREVIEWSQ&ANO REVIEWS YET. BE THE FIRST TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS!WRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTONO QUTNS HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCEASK A QUTNGAY TRAVEL NEPAL (KATHMANDU): HOURS, ADDRS - TRIPADVISOR
• GAY TRAVEL NEPAL: KARL’S PHOTO TRIP TO KATHMANDU & THE HIMALAYAS
• NEPAL GAY PARA TO ENSHRE LGBT RIGHTS NSTUTN
• NEPAL GAY TRAVEL
• 'PROGRSIVE LAWS, BUT...': IS NEPAL REALLY THE BEAN OF LGBTQ RIGHTS ASIA?WHILE THE LAWS ARE PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT REALLY TRANSLATED TO MEANGFUL CHANGE FOR THE MUNY.MADHREE GOSWAMIPUBLISHED: 19 JUL 2023, 8:32 AM ISTEXPLAERS5 M READISHARE "NEPAL WAS NEVER LONISED, AND HENCE, UNLIKE FORMER BRISH LONI SUCH AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN, WHICH HERED LONIAL LAWS BANNG 'UNNATURAL' SEX, NEPAL DID NOT HAVE ANY ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN ON S BOOKS," NIRANJAN KUNWAR, THE THOR OF BETWEEN QUEENS AND THE CI, WHICH IS THE FIRST QUEER MEMOIR ENGLISH TO BE PUBLISHED THE UNTRY, EXPLAED TO THE QUT.ON 28 JUNE, NEPAL BEME THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN UNTRY TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAG AFTER THE UNTRY'S SUPREME COURT PASSED AN TERIM ORR ASKG THORI TO MAKE TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS TO REGISTER SUCH MARRIAG BEFORE SPECIFIC LAWS ARE FORMULATED.THIS HISTORIC CISN ADD YET ANOTHER FEATHER TO NEPAL'S P WHEN ME TO PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF GENR AND SEXUAL MORI. 2007: NEPAL'S SUPREME COURT EXPLICLY PROTECTS SEXUAL ORIENTATN2010: THE ELECTN COMMISSN ADDS THE THIRD GENR OPTN TO VOTER ROLLS2011: NEPAL CLUS A THIRD GENR ON S NATNAL CENS, A FIRST THE WORLD 2015: PASSPORTS START REGNISG THREE GENRSYET, MANY OM THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY NEPAL ALLEGE THAT "THE ATTU OF THE SOCIETY TOWARDS THEM IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS BACK," WHEN THE SUPREME COURT FIRST REGNISED GENR AND SEXUAL INTI.THE QUT LOOKS AT HOW THE GROUND REALY FOR LGBTQIA+ PERSONS NEPAL, WHICH HAS A LONG HISTORY OF QUEER STGGLE, IS STILL FAR OM NDUCIVE SPE S PROGRSIVE LAWS. ALSO READNEPAL'S SUPREME COURT ORRS GOVT TO TEMPORARILY REGISTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGADVERTISEMENTHOW NEPAL'S LGBTQ MOVEMENT CAME OF AGE DURG CIVIL WARWHEN NEPAL TRANSNED OM AN TOCRACY TO A MOCRACY 2008, NEPAL'S GAY MUNY WAS AMONG THE FIRST GROUPS TO MAND REGNN, ALONG WH THE UNTRY'S ETHNIC MORI. AS KYLE KNIGHT, A REARCHER ON THE LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS PROGRAMME AT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, SAID: "THE MOVEMENT ME OF AGE DURG THE 1996-2006 CIVIL WAR AND FOUND S FOOTG THE AFTERMATH.""ACTIVISTS JOED THE PROTTS AGAST THE MONARCHY AND NTRIBUTED TO THE NVERSATNS ABOUT WHAT A 'NEW NEPAL' SHOULD LOOK LIKE – THIS GAVE THEM A HUGE AMOUNT OF SOCIAL LEGIMACY," HE TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2016.BUT AS KUNWAR EXPLAED, WH NO ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN, NEPAL SAW LAWS BEG TWISTED TO TARGET THE MUNY. FOR STANCE, A REVISN THE 1960S TRODUCED A CLSE FORBIDDG "UNNATURAL SEX."IN 2004, WAS PROBABLY ED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME TO ARGUE THE SHUTTG DOWN OF BLUE DIAMOND SOCIETY (BDS), NEPAL'S FIRST QUEER NGO, FOUND BY FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN AND GENR RIGHTS ACTIVIST SUNIL BABU PANT 2001."A LAWYER NAMED ACHYUT PRASAD KHAREL HAD PETNED TO THE NEPALE ERNMENT TO SHUT BDS DOWN FOR ENURAGG HOMOSEXUALY THE NAME OF HUMAN RIGHTS. HIS SE LED TO AN CREASE VLENCE AGAST LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE," RELLED PANT.BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006 (WHEN THE UNTRY WAS STILL NOT A MOCRACY), AT LEAST 90 PEOPLE OM THE QUEER MUNY HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AS RERD BY THE BDS.THE SE WAS DISMISSED BY THE NEPALE ERNMENT ON GROUNDS OF "HOMOSEXUALY NOT BEG A CRIMAL ISSUE."ALSO READPRI IS POLIL: LGBTQ+ INDIANS REFLECT ON THE POLICS OF QUEERNSADVERTISEMENTTHE 2007 JUDGMENT THAT CHANGED IT ALLSPEAKG ABOUT HOW THE MUNY WAS SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE, PANT TOLD THE QUT THAT WAS THIS VERY DISCRIMATN THAT PELLED HIM AND OTHERS TO FILE A PETN 2007 – THE VERDICT OF WHICH WENT ON TO BEE A LANDMARK ONE."IN 2003, WHEN THE EMERGENCY WAS IMPOSED NEPAL AFTER THE TRANSN OM MONARCHY TO TOCRACY, SECURY FORC SCEND ON THE STREETS. THE THIRD-GENR POPULATN WAS SUBJECTED TO A LOT OF VLENCE, BOTH OM THE FORC AS WELL AS THE MAOISTS. THE FORC ED TO TA TRANS PERSONS UNR SOME PRETEXT OR THE OTHER," HE TOLD THE QUT.ON 26 AUGT 2004, A POLICE OFFICER SL A TRANSGENR WOMAN'S THROAT AFTER FORCG HER TO PERFORM ORAL SEX. "AFTER THE KHAREL SE, POLICE ME AFTER MORE AGGRSIVELY," PANT ADD.TWO YEARS LATER, A PRO-MOCRACY MOVEMENT BEGAN. "THIS HELPED MAKE NNECTNS WH A FEW POLIL PARTI WHO WERE QUE WELG OF . AFTER THE PEACE ACRD WAS SIGNED NEW DELHI, AN TERIM PARLIAMENT WAS MA AND THEY SOUGHT SUGGTNS ON WHAT TO CLU THE CONSTUTN. WE ASKED THAT LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS BE CLUD THE CONSTUTN, BUT OUR SUGGTNS WERE NOT TABLED. THAT IS WHEN WE CID TO MOVE THE URT," HE SAID.WH EIGHT MONTHS OF THEIR PETN, THE TOP URT PASSED A FAVOURABLE CISN, WHICH CLEARLY STATED THAT LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE ARE 'NATURAL'. IT REGNISED THE MUNY'S RIGHTS AS 'FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS', AND LEGALISED HOMOSEXUALY – A FIRST FOR A SOUTH ASIAN NATN.IN S ORR, THE URT ALSO ASKED THE ERNMENT TO FORM A PANEL TO STUDY SAME-SEX MARRIAG AND E UP WH LEGAL PROVISNS BASED ON S SUGGTNS AND REMENDATNS. THE MTEE SUBMTED S REPORT 2015, REMENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, NEVER GAED STEAM.ALSO READFIVE MEXINS, ONE LOL KILLED HELIPTER CRASH NEAR MOUNT EVERT NEPALADVERTISEMENTTHE REALY ON THE GROUNDAFTER THE 2007 JUDGMENT – AND WHAT FOLLOWED AFTERWARDS – NEPAL EARNED A GLOBAL IMAGE OF BEG A BEAN OF LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS. BUT WHILE THE LAWS HAVE BEEN NSIRED PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT TRANSLATED TO CHANG THE LARGER SOCIETY, AND MEMBERS OF THE MUNY ARE STILL DISCRIMATED AGAST, ACTIVISTS ALLEGED TO THE QUT.FOR STANCE, DAYS AFTER THE TOP URT'S HISTORIC CISN TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THE KATHMANDU DISTRICT COURT REJECTED A MARRIAGE REGISTRATN APPLITN FILED BY A GAY UPLE ON THE GROUNDS THAT BOTH APPLINTS BELONG TO THE SAME SEX. "THIS IS NOT ONLY A BLOW TO THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI, BUT ALSO A DISHONOUR TO THE SUPREME COURT'S ORR," SAID PANT.IN HIS PAPER 'EVERYDAY LIV OF LGBTI KATHMANDU VALLEY: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY', MEGH VILAS BHATTA, FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF HUMANI AND SOCIAL SCIENC AT BUDHANILKANTHA SCHOOL KATHMANDU, HAS NOTED HOW "THERE IS WISPREAD TOLERANCE FOR LGBTI MUNY THE NEPALE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS THAT THEY DO NOT NFORM TO SET NOTNS FOR MALE OR FEMALE GENR INTY."HE TOLD THE QUT THAT THE MUNY SUFFERS OM EXTENSIVE PREJUDICE, DISCRIMATN, AND VLENCE."ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS MY PAPER TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS NIED A HOE FOR RENT BY THE LANDLORD KATHMANDU BEE OF HER GENR. THE LANDLORD LLED HER A HIJRA AND SAID THAT A MISFORTUNE WOULD OCCUR IF HE RENTED OUT TO HER."BHAKTI SHAH, A TRANSGENR MAN, TOLD THE QUT THAT PEOPLE'S PERCEPTN TOWARD "SEXUAL MORI IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS AGO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT LG ON GENR INTY." SHAH WORKED THE NEPAL ARMY, WHERE HE WAS ACCED OF HAVG SEX WH A WOMAN THE BARRACKS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED OM HIS POSN 2009."I WAS IMPRISONED FOR 60 DAYS A BIG HALL WH VLTED CEILGS. THEY KEPT TELLG ME THAT I WAS A CRIMAL ... THEY TOLD ME THAT I EXHIBED HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR AND THAT I WAS A BLACK MARK ON THE WHOLE ARMY BEE OF MY SEXUALY. THEY LATER LLED ME AND SAID THAT I WAS NOW EXPELLED OM THE ROYAL NEPAL ARMY AND THAT I SHOULD GO HOME," RELLED SHAH."THE NVERSATN REGARDG QUEER RIGHTS HAS NOT PROGRSED BEYOND THE 2007 VERDICT. WE ARE STILL TREATED LIKE THIRD-CLASS CIZENS," SAID RSHANA KAPALI, A QUEER RIGHTS ACTIVIST. A TRANSGENR WOMAN WHO WAS BULLIED AND ABED BY HER SCHOOL PRCIPAL DURG HER SCHOOL YEARS, KAPALI WAS LATER FORMALLY ALLOWED TO STUDY AT TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSY.THOUGH SHE ULD STUDY AGA, SHE WAS NOT FORMALLY REGISTERED AS A STUNT, AS HER HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT INTIFI HER AS A "MALE" UNR HER ADNAME.(AT THE QUT, WE ARE ANSWERABLE ONLY TO OUR DIENCE. PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE SHAPG OUR JOURNALISM BY BEG A MEMBER. BEE THE TTH IS WORTH .)READ LATT NEWS AND BREAKG NEWS AT THE QUT, BROWSE FOR MORE OM EXPLAERS TOPICS:  NEPAL   EXPLAER   LGBT COMMUNY BEE A MEMBER TO UNLOCKACCS TO ALL PAYWALLED NTENT ON SEAD-EE EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE QUTLISTEN TO PAYWALLED NTENTEARLY PREVIEWS OF OUR SPECIAL PROJECTSAND MORE MEMBERSHIP BENEFS!THE QUT DAILY
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'PROGRSIVE LAWS, BUT...': IS NEPAL REALLY THE BEAN OF LGBTQ RIGHTS ASIA?WHILE THE LAWS ARE PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT REALLY TRANSLATED TO MEANGFUL CHANGE FOR THE MUNY.MADHREE GOSWAMIPUBLISHED: 19 JUL 2023, 8:32 AM ISTEXPLAERS5 M READISHARE "NEPAL WAS NEVER LONISED, AND HENCE, UNLIKE FORMER BRISH LONI SUCH AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN, WHICH HERED LONIAL LAWS BANNG 'UNNATURAL' SEX, NEPAL DID NOT HAVE ANY ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN ON S BOOKS," NIRANJAN KUNWAR, THE THOR OF BETWEEN QUEENS AND THE CI, WHICH IS THE FIRST QUEER MEMOIR ENGLISH TO BE PUBLISHED THE UNTRY, EXPLAED TO THE QUT.ON 28 JUNE, NEPAL BEME THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN UNTRY TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAG AFTER THE UNTRY'S SUPREME COURT PASSED AN TERIM ORR ASKG THORI TO MAKE TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS TO REGISTER SUCH MARRIAG BEFORE SPECIFIC LAWS ARE FORMULATED.THIS HISTORIC CISN ADD YET ANOTHER FEATHER TO NEPAL'S P WHEN ME TO PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF GENR AND SEXUAL MORI. 2007: NEPAL'S SUPREME COURT EXPLICLY PROTECTS SEXUAL ORIENTATN2010: THE ELECTN COMMISSN ADDS THE THIRD GENR OPTN TO VOTER ROLLS2011: NEPAL CLUS A THIRD GENR ON S NATNAL CENS, A FIRST THE WORLD 2015: PASSPORTS START REGNISG THREE GENRSYET, MANY OM THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY NEPAL ALLEGE THAT "THE ATTU OF THE SOCIETY TOWARDS THEM IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS BACK," WHEN THE SUPREME COURT FIRST REGNISED GENR AND SEXUAL INTI.THE QUT LOOKS AT HOW THE GROUND REALY FOR LGBTQIA+ PERSONS NEPAL, WHICH HAS A LONG HISTORY OF QUEER STGGLE, IS STILL FAR OM NDUCIVE SPE S PROGRSIVE LAWS. ALSO READNEPAL'S SUPREME COURT ORRS GOVT TO TEMPORARILY REGISTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGADVERTISEMENTHOW NEPAL'S LGBTQ MOVEMENT CAME OF AGE DURG CIVIL WARWHEN NEPAL TRANSNED OM AN TOCRACY TO A MOCRACY 2008, NEPAL'S GAY MUNY WAS AMONG THE FIRST GROUPS TO MAND REGNN, ALONG WH THE UNTRY'S ETHNIC MORI. AS KYLE KNIGHT, A REARCHER ON THE LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS PROGRAMME AT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, SAID: "THE MOVEMENT ME OF AGE DURG THE 1996-2006 CIVIL WAR AND FOUND S FOOTG THE AFTERMATH.""ACTIVISTS JOED THE PROTTS AGAST THE MONARCHY AND NTRIBUTED TO THE NVERSATNS ABOUT WHAT A 'NEW NEPAL' SHOULD LOOK LIKE – THIS GAVE THEM A HUGE AMOUNT OF SOCIAL LEGIMACY," HE TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2016.BUT AS KUNWAR EXPLAED, WH NO ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN, NEPAL SAW LAWS BEG TWISTED TO TARGET THE MUNY. FOR STANCE, A REVISN THE 1960S TRODUCED A CLSE FORBIDDG "UNNATURAL SEX."IN 2004, WAS PROBABLY ED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME TO ARGUE THE SHUTTG DOWN OF BLUE DIAMOND SOCIETY (BDS), NEPAL'S FIRST QUEER NGO, FOUND BY FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN AND GENR RIGHTS ACTIVIST SUNIL BABU PANT 2001."A LAWYER NAMED ACHYUT PRASAD KHAREL HAD PETNED TO THE NEPALE ERNMENT TO SHUT BDS DOWN FOR ENURAGG HOMOSEXUALY THE NAME OF HUMAN RIGHTS. HIS SE LED TO AN CREASE VLENCE AGAST LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE," RELLED PANT.BETWEEN 2003 AND 2006 (WHEN THE UNTRY WAS STILL NOT A MOCRACY), AT LEAST 90 PEOPLE OM THE QUEER MUNY HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AS RERD BY THE BDS.THE SE WAS DISMISSED BY THE NEPALE ERNMENT ON GROUNDS OF "HOMOSEXUALY NOT BEG A CRIMAL ISSUE."ALSO READPRI IS POLIL: LGBTQ+ INDIANS REFLECT ON THE POLICS OF QUEERNSADVERTISEMENTTHE 2007 JUDGMENT THAT CHANGED IT ALLSPEAKG ABOUT HOW THE MUNY WAS SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE, PANT TOLD THE QUT THAT WAS THIS VERY DISCRIMATN THAT PELLED HIM AND OTHERS TO FILE A PETN 2007 – THE VERDICT OF WHICH WENT ON TO BEE A LANDMARK ONE."IN 2003, WHEN THE EMERGENCY WAS IMPOSED NEPAL AFTER THE TRANSN OM MONARCHY TO TOCRACY, SECURY FORC SCEND ON THE STREETS. THE THIRD-GENR POPULATN WAS SUBJECTED TO A LOT OF VLENCE, BOTH OM THE FORC AS WELL AS THE MAOISTS. THE FORC ED TO TA TRANS PERSONS UNR SOME PRETEXT OR THE OTHER," HE TOLD THE QUT.ON 26 AUGT 2004, A POLICE OFFICER SL A TRANSGENR WOMAN'S THROAT AFTER FORCG HER TO PERFORM ORAL SEX. "AFTER THE KHAREL SE, POLICE ME AFTER MORE AGGRSIVELY," PANT ADD.TWO YEARS LATER, A PRO-MOCRACY MOVEMENT BEGAN. "THIS HELPED MAKE NNECTNS WH A FEW POLIL PARTI WHO WERE QUE WELG OF . AFTER THE PEACE ACRD WAS SIGNED NEW DELHI, AN TERIM PARLIAMENT WAS MA AND THEY SOUGHT SUGGTNS ON WHAT TO CLU THE CONSTUTN. WE ASKED THAT LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS BE CLUD THE CONSTUTN, BUT OUR SUGGTNS WERE NOT TABLED. THAT IS WHEN WE CID TO MOVE THE URT," HE SAID.WH EIGHT MONTHS OF THEIR PETN, THE TOP URT PASSED A FAVOURABLE CISN, WHICH CLEARLY STATED THAT LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE ARE 'NATURAL'. IT REGNISED THE MUNY'S RIGHTS AS 'FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS', AND LEGALISED HOMOSEXUALY – A FIRST FOR A SOUTH ASIAN NATN.IN S ORR, THE URT ALSO ASKED THE ERNMENT TO FORM A PANEL TO STUDY SAME-SEX MARRIAG AND E UP WH LEGAL PROVISNS BASED ON S SUGGTNS AND REMENDATNS. THE MTEE SUBMTED S REPORT 2015, REMENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, NEVER GAED STEAM.ALSO READFIVE MEXINS, ONE LOL KILLED HELIPTER CRASH NEAR MOUNT EVERT NEPALADVERTISEMENTTHE REALY ON THE GROUNDAFTER THE 2007 JUDGMENT – AND WHAT FOLLOWED AFTERWARDS – NEPAL EARNED A GLOBAL IMAGE OF BEG A BEAN OF LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS. BUT WHILE THE LAWS HAVE BEEN NSIRED PROGRSIVE, THEY HAVE NOT TRANSLATED TO CHANG THE LARGER SOCIETY, AND MEMBERS OF THE MUNY ARE STILL DISCRIMATED AGAST, ACTIVISTS ALLEGED TO THE QUT.FOR STANCE, DAYS AFTER THE TOP URT'S HISTORIC CISN TO REGNISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THE KATHMANDU DISTRICT COURT REJECTED A MARRIAGE REGISTRATN APPLITN FILED BY A GAY UPLE ON THE GROUNDS THAT BOTH APPLINTS BELONG TO THE SAME SEX. "THIS IS NOT ONLY A BLOW TO THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI, BUT ALSO A DISHONOUR TO THE SUPREME COURT'S ORR," SAID PANT.IN HIS PAPER 'EVERYDAY LIV OF LGBTI KATHMANDU VALLEY: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY', MEGH VILAS BHATTA, FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF HUMANI AND SOCIAL SCIENC AT BUDHANILKANTHA SCHOOL KATHMANDU, HAS NOTED HOW "THERE IS WISPREAD TOLERANCE FOR LGBTI MUNY THE NEPALE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS THAT THEY DO NOT NFORM TO SET NOTNS FOR MALE OR FEMALE GENR INTY."HE TOLD THE QUT THAT THE MUNY SUFFERS OM EXTENSIVE PREJUDICE, DISCRIMATN, AND VLENCE."ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS MY PAPER TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS NIED A HOE FOR RENT BY THE LANDLORD KATHMANDU BEE OF HER GENR. THE LANDLORD LLED HER A HIJRA AND SAID THAT A MISFORTUNE WOULD OCCUR IF HE RENTED OUT TO HER."BHAKTI SHAH, A TRANSGENR MAN, TOLD THE QUT THAT PEOPLE'S PERCEPTN TOWARD "SEXUAL MORI IS THE SAME AS WAS 15 YEARS AGO BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT LG ON GENR INTY." SHAH WORKED THE NEPAL ARMY, WHERE HE WAS ACCED OF HAVG SEX WH A WOMAN THE BARRACKS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED OM HIS POSN 2009."I WAS IMPRISONED FOR 60 DAYS A BIG HALL WH VLTED CEILGS. THEY KEPT TELLG ME THAT I WAS A CRIMAL ... THEY TOLD ME THAT I EXHIBED HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR AND THAT I WAS A BLACK MARK ON THE WHOLE ARMY BEE OF MY SEXUALY. THEY LATER LLED ME AND SAID THAT I WAS NOW EXPELLED OM THE ROYAL NEPAL ARMY AND THAT I SHOULD GO HOME," RELLED SHAH."THE NVERSATN REGARDG QUEER RIGHTS HAS NOT PROGRSED BEYOND THE 2007 VERDICT. WE ARE STILL TREATED LIKE THIRD-CLASS CIZENS," SAID RSHANA KAPALI, A QUEER RIGHTS ACTIVIST. A TRANSGENR WOMAN WHO WAS BULLIED AND ABED BY HER SCHOOL PRCIPAL DURG HER SCHOOL YEARS, KAPALI WAS LATER FORMALLY ALLOWED TO STUDY AT TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSY.THOUGH SHE ULD STUDY AGA, SHE WAS NOT FORMALLY REGISTERED AS A STUNT, AS HER HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT INTIFI HER AS A "MALE" UNR HER ADNAME.(AT THE QUT, WE ARE ANSWERABLE ONLY TO OUR DIENCE. 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Tra trip om Varanasi to Gorakhpur | Gay Travel Nepal Photo Story Himalayas ©. B Trip om Sonli at the Indian – Nepale borr to Kathmandu | Gay Travel Nepal Photo Story Himalayas ©. B Trip om Sonli to Kathmandu | Gay Travel Nepal Photo Story Himalayas ©.

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Gay travellers don’t always have easy, pecially Asia where lol culture and lol laws often prohib open homosexualy. Nepal once held the same reputatn and laws, and stori of discrimatn were not unmon, pecially amongst Maoist lears and surgents who once clared homosexualy as a “social pollutant” the past particular, Nepal has ma major efforts to improve LGBTQ rights wh the untry, and this more liberal attu has ma one of the most gay-iendly untri South ’ll notice om the moment you fill you landg rd – that ltle box marked “other” the genr sectn.

Homosexualy was officially legalised Nepal 2007, endg a long history of gay people havg to fear prosecutn for their sexualy. Overview of gay rights Nepal. Gay Activy: LegalLbian Activy: LegalSame-sex Marriage: Not currently legal – raised as topic for future discsnSame-Sex Adoptn: Not currently legal for upl, although sgle gay people n adoptRight to Change Genr: Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn: RegnisedLGBT Discrimatn: Illegal some ntextsCensorship: No censorshipMilary or public service: AllowedEmployment discrimatn: IllegalHog discrimatn: IllegalAge of Consent: Equal (16)(source: Equalx).