‘There are few gay people India’: stigma lgers spe legal victory | Human rights | The Guardian

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• BOMBAY: THE 'GAY-PAL' OF THE WORLD
• TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )
• IS MUMBAI EMERGG AS INDIA'S GAY PAL?
• WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA
• HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA
• MUMBAI IS INDIA’S GAY PAL
• ‘THERE ARE FEW GAY PEOPLE INDIA’: STIGMA LGERS SPE LEGAL VICTORY

BOMBAY: THE 'GAY-PAL' OF THE WORLD

Bombay is also the GAY CAPITAL of India, beg a center for a majory of gay nferenc, activism and cultural celebratns. Bombay — sce 1996, officially “Mumbai, ” is among other thgs India’s gay pal, as Calcutta is s tellectual centre and Delhi s polil one. Wh jt unr a billn people India, the standard figure of 1 10 men beg gay means 50 ln gay men and somewhat lser number of lbians.

And wh 15 ln people Bombay, there are by that reckong three quarters of a ln gay men here. Multicultural, smopolan, the centre of dtry and tra, the lotn of the huge film dtry, wealthy, tolerant and vibrant, Bombay naturally provis a hospable environment for gays of lol orig to nstute a lively and self-assured gay muny.

TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )

For gay rints and visors alike, Bombay is the most hospable, excg and dispensable cy on the subntent. Gay visors om Islamic and Wtern untri will naturally assume that our relatively liberal social mor and public manners dite that is proper—and safe—to behave public as they might expect to do a very liberal Wtern cy. Overt displays are therefore out (other than handholdg, which is que all right, though Bombay- are sophistited enough to be aware that Wterners who do are probably gay).

Generally, anythg go, particularly wh regard to matters of unique ncern to gays. And when there is nothg else for them to do, harassg gays, particularly at typil pick-up pots, is a way of assuagg their boredom.

Delhi Queer Pri Para - Delhi celebrat queer pri para is a yearly ftival to honor and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and their supporters. Born the dreary, dirty streets of Golpha is India's latt prott movement: The Indian Gay Liberatn Front! Fed up of police harassment, queer-bashg goondas and assorted varieti of sexual discrimatn, over 30 homosexuals, transexuals and transvt have cid to form "Lavnbaaz-I-Hd" the dreary, dirty streets of Golpha is India's latt prott movement: The Indian Gay Liberatn Front!

IS MUMBAI EMERGG AS INDIA'S GAY PAL?

Fed up of police harassment, queer-bashg goondas and assorted varieti of sexual discrimatn, over 30 homosexuals, transexuals and transvt have cid to form "Lavnbaaz-I-Hd" sounds dramatic, along the l of "Mughal-E-Azam", the story behd the foundg of Bombay's youngt prott movement is heart-rendg.

WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RAL INDIA

Homosexuals are beg beaten up by the police - after the ps have had sexual terurse wh them, they allege.

The list beg piled is homosexual reced how, while he was proposng a suburban railway toilet, he was acsted by a railway policeman - then raped and looted.

Surprisgly, there has been a "good rponse", acrdg to a young Mlim homosexual terviewed Colsa Galli the heart of Bombay's red light whole exercise looks amic when pared to the enormo change that has e over the cy wh the flux of the Arabs.

HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA

Both Gay News, published om London, andAdvote, published om Los Angel, are now givg que a b of space to the Bombay scene. A privately published Gay Gui has straightaway mentned one of the cy's most famo Hotels as havg the "bt cisg lobby the world".

TheGay News om London has published ads for tours to Rajasthan "wh a gui who shall always be wh you" November, Europeans are expected to e greater numbers to experience the "Indian scene". If the full homosexual populatn of India were ported, they uld populate a whole Atralia and still have another ln left over. Equalx, a llaborative knowledge base for the global LGBT movement that maps the legaly of homosexualy, intifi a number of factors cludg eedom to change genr and to adopt – although hasn’t ranked untri or ci orr of bt to x om the Human Rights Campaign looks at municipal servic, law enforcement and the cy learship’s public posn on equaly across the US.

MUMBAI IS INDIA’S GAY PAL

Arguably the size of the LGBT populatn urban areas uld reflect the level of iendls, as “many LGBTI folk head to ci om ral areas bee of the promise of a eer, more tolerant life there, ” says André du Plsis, executive director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn. San Francis has often been lled the “gay pal of the world” for s culture of tolerance and vibrant even when ci seem progrsive on the surface, the lived experience of members of the LGBT muny n tell a dramatilly different story.

“For a certa social strata [sic], Cape Town and Johannburg are gay mecs, but at the same time black lbians livg poor areas there are alg wh vlence and targeted rape, ” says Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT rights programme at Human Rights Watch.

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

Brazilian Print Jair Bolsonaro once said: ‘Y, I’m homophobic – and very proud of . “Wh the electn of an openly homophobic print, Jair Bolsonaro, who has famoly said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, R’s reputatn as a statn cy may falter, and vlence crease, ” Reid says. ”‘Gay Disneyland’Conversely, some untri wh backward and dangero attus to the LGBT muny, such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, discreet but vibrant unrground scen n thrive.

This is even the se Rsia, where activists say two people were killed last week and nearly 40 taed, as part of a new homophobic crackdown by police the Chechnya regn. “You’ll fd a gay scene many plac that may surprise you, ” says Ed Salvato, an LGBT travel expert. “Some plac like Mosw and St Petersburghave vibrant gay muni, spe the homophobic laws there.

“Dubl is like gay Disneyland now, and that wasn’t the se 20 or 30 years ago, ” says Prof Andrew Reynolds, founr of the Universy of North Carola’s LGBTQ Reprentatn and Rights Rearch Iniative.

The untry was the first to legalise gay marriage by popular vote, a 2015 referendum wh a y vote of says: “They went to Atralia. The gay stronghold of Palm Sprgs, California, has elected an entire cy uncil that intifi as LGBT. And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state Poland, one of Europe’s most Catholic and nservative untri, voters the small cy of Slupsk this year elected a gay atheist mayor, Robert Biedron.

Jt a few years ago, Biedron was attacked on the streets of his cy bee of his Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunil Pant beme Asia’s first openly gay feral-level elected official 2008, rultg a spate of public scty.