Mm on Queer Swipe Stori, an Instagram acunt by Gaysi Fay and Tr documents the wonrful everyday-ns of queer love om across India
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In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was. There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home.
To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”. He believ that if his father had not been homophobic, his mother would have e around by now. The transphobic and homophobic people peddlg illegal, unscpulo treatments are not likely to disappear overnight.
For the past year, a project by Gaysi Fay, an onle fom for the Indian LGBTQIA muny, and Tr, has been seekg out and featurg stori of everyday love between queer. Recently, they moved om their regular picture-wh-text ntent, to an animated short that tells the story of young love born unr a panmic, featurg Gaysi art director, Priya Dali.
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A still om Queer Swipe Stori’ recent animated short “We have so far received 800 stori through the Google form on our acunt, and we release two or three of them each week, ” says Sakshi Juneja, -founr of Gaysi Fay. “We have been exposed to so many different narrativ through pop culture, which is also domated by a mory wh this mory: you have stori of cis-gay men, or a few.
hijra stori that see the light of the day, ” says Sakshi, addg that one of the ma reasons behd the genis of Gaysi Fay was to velop a safe space for LBT non-bary people. No matter how much we put out, will always be ls, ” she is a whole different time om when Sakshi -found Gaysi, which plet 12 years on November 27: “We started at a time when I knew maybe five queer women Mumbai.
Parmh, 39 | Head, Godrej India Culture Lab, and thor of Gay Bombay: Globalizatn Love and (Be)longg Contemporary IndiaThere are many g out stori my se. I cid to host the get-together at a gay bar lled The Abbey. Most of my iends had no ia about me beg gay, or about this particular bar beg a gay one.