GAY IN: MUMBAI - A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUIDE - Our Taste For Life

Contents:

• SPILLG THE TEA ON GAY CISG 2/2 LOL TRA PARTMENTS.
• GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI
• ‘INTIFIED AS GAY’—MAKG UP QUEER MUNI AND SEXUAL SELV MUMBAI
• GAY DATG MUMBAI
• GAY MUMBAI
• GAY MUMBAI BARS, SERVIC AND HOTELS
• THIS MUMBAIKAR’S STORY OF G OUT AS GAY IS WNG THE INTER!

SPILLG THE TEA ON GAY CISG 2/2 LOL TRA PARTMENTS.

Although there are very few people who know that our lol tras are a hub for gay enunters as well. The story is of a 19-year-old gay boy, who was travellg back home after a long day llege.

GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI

Wh homosexualy still beg crimalized India, the cy has a long way to go to beg safer for s LGBTQ muny. Yet Mumbai has a large LGBTQ crowd – anizg parti, film ftivals and paras – wh several openly gay figur, cludg Bollywood celebri.

In 2009, the Delhi High Court repealed a lonial-era law which crimalized homosexual acts. Azaad Bazaar, the untry’s first LGBT pri store opened Bandra 2009, whereas D’Kloset, the cy’s first gay fashn store opened Bandra 2010. Yet, a massive blow, the untry’s Supreme Court of India re-crimalized homosexualy 2013.

And, even though support for the crimalizatn of homosexualy has emerged om all over the untry, cludg om Misters om the current ernment power, activists have been seekg to reverse the urt’s cisn sce. The cy still lacks officially acknowledged gay bars or clubs.

‘INTIFIED AS GAY’—MAKG UP QUEER MUNI AND SEXUAL SELV MUMBAI

Started 2010 after the Delhi High Court lg, KASHISH screens featur, short films, documentari, and experimental films that highlight gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr characters and stori.

Gay Bombay, an LGBT group that was found 1998, has a large followg and regularly hosts parti and meetups the cy. (HT PHOTO) “Before everythg, there was Gokul, ” says Ashok Row Kavi, 71, and one of India’s earlit gay activists. Gay parti were rtricted to the hom of rich men the 1970s, “meetg men at Gokul began happeng the mid ’80s, ” he says.

VOODOO, COLABA By the 1990s the actn spread to Voodoo, a pub at the end of the Gateway promena, and possibly India’s first gay-iendly hangout. KARMA LOUNGE, OPERA HOUSE The now-funct rtrant (’s been replaced by Canto) was popular for gay parti durg the post-liberalisatn boom of the ’90s. Eventually Hotels Dadar, Andheri, Juhu, Chembur and Ghatkopar started hostg parti anised by gay clubs, wh entry fe (dner, drks and dancg) for as ltle as ₹100.

GAY DATG MUMBAI

But events around the year tackle at gay issu outsi of activism and, the Lab‘s own words “nfigur new ways of exprsg and celebratg queerns”.

NCPA, NARIMAN POINT This is where, December 1996, India screened s first gay-themed film.

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Riyad Vci Wadia’s Bomgay was based on poems by R Raj Rao. The short film roped iends like Rahul Bose as the st, and shot at the cy’s gay clubs, men’s public toilets and Apsara Theatre at Lamgton Road.

GADKARI RANGAYATAN, THANE This is where Mrachi Ghosta, Vijay Tendulkar’s play about a llege stunt who realis she is lbian, buted 1981. The story is of a mother who disvers, that her ad son was gay and may have driven another young man to suici.

GAY MUMBAI BARS, SERVIC AND HOTELS

But what is like to be Gay Mumbai?

We learnt that followg the historic 2018 cisn to crimalise homosexualy India, the gay scene Mumbai is fact on the rise. We certaly hadn’t heard of any ht of a gay scene the lik of Jaipur, Varanasi, or even Goa! Asis om the gay scene, she is a paradoxil cy.

THIS MUMBAIKAR’S STORY OF G OUT AS GAY IS WNG THE INTER!

You’ll fd a list of gay-iendly hotels and bars and our top tips as an LGBT uple Mumbai. Gay : Mumbai – A LGBTQ+ Travel Gui.