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Contents:

• GAY DATG MUMBAI
• GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI
• GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI
• MUMBAI: GAY AND LBIAN
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY
• A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
• GAY MUMBAI
• GAY MUMBAI BARS, SERVIC AND HOTELS
• HOW TO SAY GAY PUNJABI

GAY DATG MUMBAI

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI

— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI

Gay Mumbai. Mumbai Gay Scene.

MUMBAI: GAY AND LBIAN

However, many lol gay hotspots aren’t published so ’s bt to do some rearch before travelg here.

There are several webs and sourc onle where you n disver any upg gay parti or events. Sce 2010, the film ftival screens gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer films om India and around the world.

Gay-Friendly Activi & Attractns.

‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

Gay-Friendly Dg. Gay-Friendly Bars & Nightlife.

While there is not a specifc gay neighborhood, and any of the LGBTQ parti and events are unrground, there are some gay-iendly spots popular wh both lols and tourists. Across India, don’t be surprised to see men holdg hands the streets, although should never be assumed that they’re gay.

A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE

Sce then, there haven’t been exclively queer clubs or bars India, but the last , the queer rights movement has proliferated through the crevic of Mumbai’s homophobia. Such parti were prevly ually held suburban areas, far om the cy’s maland, bee prime party spots were tough als to crack, pecially bee of the wispread homophobia, and fear om Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC), brgg wh them hate crim and raids.

GAY MUMBAI

Gay Bombay, Mumbai. One of the longt-nng onle queer support groups India sce 1998, Gay Bombay was also one of pneers to host private queer parti the cy’s clubs 2000. Gaysi, Mumbai.

GAY MUMBAI BARS, SERVIC AND HOTELS

While queer and trans men have a multu of queer party optns to choose om, media pany and onle queer rource centre, Gaysi sought out to level the ground by anisg events for LBT femal Bombay sce 2007.

While the party is ually open to all the members of the muny, Gaysi rightfully sists that male atten mt e along wh at least one female pann. Gaysi’s even popular for helmg ‘drag kg’ performanc ocsnally, India’s first-ever and n to be missed. Apart om at Kty Su and Gaysi’s events, there’s a clear lack of trans and LBT folks at many of the clubs, mostly bee of the venue proprietor’s and predomantly gay muny’s phobic attu towards trans, femme folks.

Homosexualy no longer stands as a crime anymore India. Even after the victory of Sectn 377, we still lag behd and one of the key reasons for this is the social displeasure associated wh homosexualy and associated sexual a untry like India, the major factor promotg this displeasure is the media.

HOW TO SAY GAY PUNJABI

Homosexualy is still abhorred and change, even though procs, is very slow.

A major culpr for this slow transformatn people’s thought procs regardg homosexualy n be attributed to the media Punjab are so many unfortunate exampl to note. For stance, sger Pav Dharia’s “Mtang Wala Munda” vio song at the end portrays a homosexual man as nothg but a sperate animal cravg only for sex. In the web seri “Ishq De Bulle“, a character a rogatory term for homosexuals and ’s taken such a light and normal manner.

The pletely offensive and irratnal lyrics of the song “Mucha Toh Bagair Banda Gay Lagda” speaks volum about how the LGBT+ muny is beg disrpected jt for the sake of fame. The popular edian Kapil Sharma too played a gay character on MH1 and all that the act did was assertg the unwanted and basels stereotyp agast gays. The list go on and Dharia’s “Mtang Wala Munda” vio songThe need of the hour is portrayg homosexualy as jt a normal variant of human sexualy, which actually is.