A 'sm' or jt unprofsnal? India gay matchmakg service unr fire

Contents:

• ARRANGED GAY MARRIAGE BURE: HELPG HOMOSEXUALS FD LOVE AND MARRIAGE
• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST GIV INDIA S ‘FIRST’ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BURE
• NRI SETS UP INDIA'S 1ST GAY MARRIAGE BURE
• A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
• INDIA FALLY HAS A GAY MARRIAGE BURE!
• INDIA GETS 'FIRST' GAY MARRIAGE BURE
• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• INDIA GETS ‘FIRST’ GAY MARRIAGE BURE
• THIS INDIAN GAY MARRIAGE BURE IS HELPG THE LGBT MUNY FD LOVE

ARRANGED GAY MARRIAGE BURE: HELPG HOMOSEXUALS FD LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Stuck between a physil world whose soc-polil atmosphere still do not pletely accept homosexual love and datg apps remblg a digal mirror hoe of bicep and abdomen shots (lookg at you, Grdr), where do you go to fd a more meangful and ser relatnship? Arranged Gay Marriage Bure hop to provi the answer to that. Indian Marriage Acts do not speak about homosexuals.

No paper n fe your marriage, “ she Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has a team of 26 employe — all homosexuals above 30 — who physilly filter like-md applints through a nfintial form that ndidat fill out while signg up. Happily ever after Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has a team of 26 employe who filter like-md applints; (below) Urvi ShahTurns out, fdg love is not cheap: Sgg up to the app sts ₹15, 000 for Indians and ₹30, 000 for foreigners.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST GIV INDIA S ‘FIRST’ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BURE

”For tails, vis May 2020, reports have emerged, llg the ethics of Arranged Gay Marriage Bure to qutn. Mar 21, 2016 10:08 PM IST An entreprenr has set up what is claimed to be India‘s first gay marriage bure, seekg to arrange match for homosexual upl. Benhur Samson, who prevly helped foreign gay upl e surrogacy servic, said he found the agency rponse to tert om clients.

An entreprenr has set up what is claimed to be India‘s first gay marriage bure, seekg to arrange match for homosexual upl. LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) activists and supporters celebrate durg the eighth anniversary of the ‘Delhi Queer Pri’ 2015.

(Raj k Raj/HT Photo) Benhur Samson, who prevly helped foreign gay upl e surrogacy servic, said he found the agency rponse to tert om clients.

NRI SETS UP INDIA'S 1ST GAY MARRIAGE BURE

“I was surprised to see the rponse om the gay people whom I me touch wh while unsellg them on surrogacy issue, ” he told AFP. “This is how I me upon the ia of a marriage bure for gay men and women who want to settle down wh a partner.

” Samson, who liv the Uned Stat, has enlisted the help of Manvendrasgh Gohil, an openly gay Indian prce, to help sort out immigratn issu. “Several gay people of Indian orig wanted an arranged marriage and were lookg for partners om India, ” he said. “I have not heard about such gay marriage bure anywhere else ( India), ” said Gohil, who is also a gay rights activist.

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

Gay marriage and gay sex are both illegal the untry and homosexualy has long been a taboo subject.

INDIA FALLY HAS A GAY MARRIAGE BURE!

VADODARA: Gay people now have an avenue to fd their soulmate.

An NRI has set up India's first marriage bure for homosexuals to help them fd the right match, both wh and outsi the untry.

The general belief is that most homosexuals tend to intify their own partners and settle wh them.

INDIA GETS 'FIRST' GAY MARRIAGE BURE

But Benhur Samson, who ed to help gays wh surrogacy India till 2013, was surprised when he received requts om them regardg prospective life partners. Samson started the arranged gay marriage service to ter to such persons.

He has also roped the gay prce of Raipla, Manvendrasgh Gohil, as a nsultant, along wh lawyers to look to the legal aspects of the marriag, cludg immigratn if an Indian marri a person abroad.

GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Followg a number of failed attempts to meet someone through iends and data apps, Vikas cid last year to sign up wh the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure. “I didn’t match wh a few due to some drastic differenc, and the bure rmed me that the rt had rejected my profile, ” said Vikas, who asked that his last name not be ed to protect his privacy; apart om his fay and close iends, no one knows he is gay. "Reeta Loi, Former ClientIn March, Vikas wrote to Urvi Shah, the CEO of the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure and the only available ntact for the pany, to ask her to send him more profil or give him a refund.

Shah rpond that the agency was temporarily closed bee of the ronavis panmic, and his refund — which had been promised over the phone before registratn if the bure was unable to fd him a match wh a year — was nied, acrdg to is not alone his disappotment wh the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure, which claims to work wh gay men and lbians of Indian scent all over the world to help them fd a suable long-term partner. In fact, the matchmakg service was the subject of a Vice Media report last month tled “The Arranged Gay Marriage Sm. While the Vice film documents the experienc of two clients, NBC News, which profiled the Arranged Gay Marrige Bure back 2018, reached out to other clients to ask about their experience wh the fdg clients by llg out var LGBTQ groups on social media and WhatsApp, NBC News terviewed five people who rpond and were able to share proof of their registratn wh the bure.

INDIA GETS ‘FIRST’ GAY MARRIAGE BURE

Homosexualy is still taboo most parts of India, and gay marriage is not legal.

A New Delhi-based gay man said he received a profile every few days and met all five of his match. ”However, Akarsh said he thks Shah’s claim that the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has 3, 700 clients, about two-thirds of them India, “may well be a misreprentatn, ” as he said, “ tak them time to fd match.

‘Misleadg’ and ‘distrsg’The Vice report lls to qutn the veracy of the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure’s matchmakg profil and whether they are culled om other datg servic. ”Vice also flagged some of the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure’s social media posts, which appear to take cred for matchmakg succs stori that fact had nothg to do wh the example, an article om an Atralian newspaper wh the headle “Same-sex marriage India” was posted to the bure’s social media acunts wh the ptn “Urvi Shah helpg LGBTQ muny fd love. And if a ctomer of a bs India believ they've been smmed or have not been provid agreed upon servic, they n file a plat their cy’s nsumer urt or seek legal advice for redrsal, he the Arranged Gay Marriage Bure has at least a handful of satisfied clients, a number of other clients pla of unprofsnal behavr, cludg broken promis of providg a steady stream of matchmakg profil, big gaps munitn and preferential service for those who are willg to pay extra.

THIS INDIAN GAY MARRIAGE BURE IS HELPG THE LGBT MUNY FD LOVE

“It sadns to see someone take advantage of a vulnerable muny, the same muny that is givg them bs, ” said Balachandran Ramiah, a member of Gay Bombay, a support group creatg safe spac for s 18, 000 gay members Arranged Gay Marriage Bure is not the only same-sex matchmakg platform India, but there is fear that s apparent lack of profsnalism will have a ripple effect. “After such an experience, ’s gog to be difficult for the LGBTQ muny to put their tst such bs, ” Manvendra Sgh Gohil, an LGBTQ advote and the first prce India to e out as gay, told NBC NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.