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8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay indian artists *

In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. But who are India’s gay celebri?

Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out. Here’s a list of India’s top lbian, gay, and bisexual stars.

Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay. Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights! Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema.

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He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny. “The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs. Khakhar me out as gay to the public this exhibn, which was praised for s art that moved away om symbolic and abstract imagery towards ntemporary and personal subjects.

)Khakhar\’s often openly homosexual them his art were startlg, as LGBTQIA rights and inty and exprsn had barely gathered any mastream notice this era. The advent of social media and the natural habat provis for Gen Z has also led to more young artists fdg a voice for their queerns and their talent alcg on buzzg avenu like list out some of the Indian LGBTQIA artists, both emergg and tablished, whose work we Canadian photographer based London, Sunil Gupta, has ma an inic reer out of \”makg work rpondg to the jtic suffered by gay men across the globe, himself clud\”.

Gay World India 2016, Anwh Sahoo has sce rved a name for himself as an artist, blogger, wrer, mol, actor and a TEDx speaker. He often clus himself his scen ntemplatg homosexualy.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Gay World India, 2016 and subsequently at the age of 20, beme the youngt nttant ever to w the crown. Gay World 2016 pageant held Malta, Europe and ma to the Top 12. He tells stori wh humor pictg ordary middle class life the late 20th century, pecially his Gujarati home cy of Baroda – but not always so ordary bee Khakhar was gay a untry where homosexualy was (and still is) illegal, and male nu figur appear equently his works.

He “turned the cultural tablishment on s head” wh portras of hairdrsers and tailors, and wh “sad, angry affectnate pictur” of middle-class Leavg (Gog Abroad) 1970, Courty Tap Collectn, pyright Estate of Bhupen KhakharIn the 1980s, he was urageoly the first homosexual Indian artist to e out. A small 24" x 24" overtly gay oil on nvas, At New Jersey (below), went at Christie’s for £134, 500 ($197, 715) cludg buyers’ premium, which was more than double the $87, 500 that fetched at Christie’s 2014 have been qutns about whether the patgs – done between 13 and 50 years ago – f the Tate Morn’s ultra ntemporary image. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

‘I DIDN’T FD ANY REFERENCE TO GAY INDIAN ART HISTORY’

Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience. lways regnised as one of Khakhar’s most important patgs, this divid and double-sled image has bee somethg of an in for gay culture far beyond India.

Two Men Benar (1982) is the most explic of what the artist himself lled his "efforts to e-out open", and to create a new inography of homosexual love, nscly very different om that of David Hockney: "Hockney is ncerned wh physil bety – I am much more ncerned wh other aspects, like warmth, py, vulnerabily, touch. There were certaly several ln homosexuals active the Indian subntent, but they had left srcely any trace on Indian cultural life, remag the 1960s and 70s visible, even films and novels.

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" Shortly after his ath, she wrote of ‘Sat Bhupen’, vokg Sartre’s nonizatn of ‘Sat’ Ge; "an irreversible overlap between homosexualy and sathood".

When Julian Bell, near the end of his fe world-history of art, Mirror of The World, selected Two Men Benar as one of very few late twentieth century patgs to be illtrated, was not as gay in but above all for Khakhar’s "visn of the flow of humany and landspe behd the lovers. When 17, I disvered a new inty of beg gay.

At McGill Universy, I joed a gay-stunt society which was volved activism and beme the photographer for their newsletter. I was happy shootg gay thgs.

‘WE WANTED TO HAVE SEX ALL THE TIME’: FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF SUNIL GUPTA—PHOTOGRAPHER OF GAY INDIAN LIFE—OPENS LONDON

I didn’t fd any reference to gay Indian art history and felt motivated to make work about beg gay and Indian — need to be placed the art historil ntext. On my way and out of India, I would photograph gay men. My iends the untry at the time looked at beg gay as a ‘bourgeois urban problem’ and not worth dog.

When I was diagnosed ’95, I was already overload, beg gay and Indian. Different aspects of , such as me takg medic, were juxtaposed wh photographs of my lol London gay clubs, which had turned to sex clubs.

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It’s not so much about the gay ntent as much as nudy, wh moral judgement hangg over . “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform.

(Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App. ”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P. When the photographer Sunil Gupta exhibed his Exil seri—pictg the hidn liv of gay men Delhi— a group show at the Photographers' Gallery 1987, the works “sank whout a trace”, he says.

” Twenty-three years later, the same London venue, the seri is once aga on show for From Here to Eterny, Gupta’s first major reer survey, which 16 distct bodi of work to chart his five--long reer and tell the probg, personal narrative of a gay Indian immigrant the Wt.

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‘We wanted to have sex all the time’: first major survey of Sunil Gupta—photographer of gay Indian life—opens London .

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