Contents:
- GIN (GAY INDIAN NETWORK) THE LGBTQIA INDIAN NETWORK UK
- INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM
- ‘INDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUEER AF – WE EVEN HAVE A GAY TAJ MAHAL’
- INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
- ‘WE WANTED TO HAVE SEX ALL THE TIME’: FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF SUNIL GUPTA—PHOTOGRAPHER OF GAY INDIAN LIFE—OPENS LONDON
GIN (GAY INDIAN NETWORK) THE LGBTQIA INDIAN NETWORK UK
The Gay Indian Network (GIN) is a wele place for LGBTQ muny wh Indian nnectns, and their iends and alli. The Gay Indian Network (GIN) was tablished September 2018 wh the key purpose of nnectg the LGBTQ muny of Indian Herage and the wir diaspora wh each other and wh their iends & alli London and the Uned Kgdom. GIN (Gay Indian Network) LGBTQIA Indian Network UK.
INDIAN GAY CHAT ROOM
Gay Indian Network Rul Charter and Co of Conduct for all members. When I went to universy I fell love aga and this was a much more problematic affair as ma me a target of homophobic amic hate “acts” agast my credibily as a early stage rearcher.
My early universy experienc affected me a lot and I found so difficult to pe wh the bed “sword of discrimatn” both racial and homophobic– and a hate so personally agast “my own reer. My ntie who I am very close to told me that same sex marriage was not natural and that she believed homosexualy is an illns. Meetg Kasha Jacquele Nabagera Campaigng for Amnty Gaysian Fac Mary Robson Semar Amnty Activism at Pri Meetg Michael D Higgs The Prisoner and the Dove.
‘INDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUEER AF – WE EVEN HAVE A GAY TAJ MAHAL’
Although I felt liberated om the nstrats of relig opprsn, I still veloped a strong tert relign, batg and discsg moral issu such as ath, relatnships and touchg on the subject of homosexualy. Wh everyone ncerned my fay and wh my peers, jt the ia that someone was gay is/was a s.
INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
I didn’t tell anyone that I had gay feelgs or a csh on anyone. Back then, as is now, was very much a taboo subject to discs sex, never md homosexualy.
As I was still the thro of seekg spirual enlightenment, I nied that I was gay or had feelgs for men and claimed to wantg to fd my own “Miss Right”. Wrg this now, I realise what I experienced was ternalised homophobia but my teenage years, I had no words to scribe how I felt.
Outwardly, I was appalled by seeg a gay man a public place, but wardly I was awe and attracted to particular typ of men. Overall, I nied my feelgs and chose not to acknowledge the gay men, who would look my way, say hello or even jt be wh my peripheral visn or space. She suggted I vis a gay bar the centre of London.
‘WE WANTED TO HAVE SEX ALL THE TIME’: FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF SUNIL GUPTA—PHOTOGRAPHER OF GAY INDIAN LIFE—OPENS LONDON
Then, a week before my 20th birthday, I met a man at the gay bar and he was my first one night stand. The most difficult and harst thg for me to do was to accept and e to terms wh me beg gay, never md tellg others and expectg them to accept me for who I am or what I was.