Charl Barkley fends LGBTQIA+ muny, Bud Light expletive-filled rant: ‘If you’re gay, God bls you’

Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KOLKATA
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KOLKATA
• GAY DATG KOLKATA
• IN PICS: KOLKATA’S LGBTQ+ COMMUNY MARCH WH PRITHE STREETS OF KOLKATA WERE CKED UP A HAPPY AND GAY LOOK FOR THE PARA DAY.TANMOY BHADURIPUBLISHED: 31 DEC 2018, 2:56 PM ISTPHOTOS5 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KOLKATA

In 2018, the Supreme Court ma a landmark judgment by crimalisg homosexualy the untry. The cy has clive and progrsive gay-iendly clubs and beach. Started 2008, the film ftival also celebrat cema reprentg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and other sexual and genr mori across the untry.

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GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KOLKATA

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Officially, there’s no gay bar Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta).

GAY DATG KOLKATA

But ask anyone the cy who self-intifi as gay, and they’ll tell you to go to Gger on a Saturday night.

My gui to Kolkata’s unrground gay scene is a short, cute, 26-year-old Indian named Neil who I met on the ter. It’s surprisg how many lols are willg to display their nam, fac and (often) phone numbers onle, nsirg homosexualy’s stat India — illegal.

IN PICS: KOLKATA’S LGBTQ+ COMMUNY MARCH WH PRITHE STREETS OF KOLKATA WERE CKED UP A HAPPY AND GAY LOOK FOR THE PARA DAY.TANMOY BHADURIPUBLISHED: 31 DEC 2018, 2:56 PM ISTPHOTOS5 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY

Every weekend, ’s the place where Kolkata’s homos go to be themselv.

After meetg my gui, Neil, for vegetarian thali, we jump a b (lerally, sce traffic here never stops) and head to the clost thg this cy has to a gay bar. But the tth is, ’s hard to tell the gay guys om the straight on. There’s no real “gay uniform” India.

After all, Neil rms me, homosexualy isn’t the only illegal form of pleasure you n fd at Gger. As the dance floor fills up wh merry men, their stomachs swellg wh hot drks, Neil giv me the facts of life about gay India. Last year, he rmed his mother that he’s gay, but still, she persists askg him when he plans to marry.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Due to India’s weddg obssn, gay long-term relatnships this untry are rare. So are guys who self-intify as gay. The absence of an out, gay muny India, upled wh the ntued illegaly of homosexualy, is ntributg to the steady rise of HIV/AIDS among men who have sex wh men.

Host Instutn: Kolkata Anandam for Equaly and Jtice (KAEJ) is a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Kothi and Hijra (LGBTKH) anizatn Kolkata. 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”.

IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

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. Here, LGBTKH+ means lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, kothi and hijra (regnal terms), pl any and all other genr and sexual mori.

As Kolkata wnsed s lst day last Sunday of 2018, members of the LGBTIQKHA+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, kothi, hijra, asexual) muny anised the Rabow Pri Walk on Sunday, 30 December 2018, first time sce the Supreme Court read down a part of Sectn 377 September this participants ma the event a memorable one, wh rabow flags, balloons, plards and celebratory mic.

The streets of Kolkata were cked up a happy and gay look for the day. “There are many misnceptns about homosexual people, and we are often looked down upon. Decrimalisg homosexualy is the first step, but homosexual marriage and child adoptn should be the logil next step, ” she Unn Mistry of Social Jtice and Empowerment, Government of India has recently troduced the Transgenr Persons (Protectn of Rights) Bill, which was subsequently passed by the Lok Sabha on 17 December this activist Panchali Kar labelled the bill as "rogatory" and claimed that the Mistry has reportedly rejected most of the remendatns of the Parliamentary Standg Commtee on the Transgenr Persons’ Bill 2016, as well as remendatns by LGBT anisatns across India.