Wh each passg week, we get a new trailer for a Bollywood film featurg a proment queer storyle, but not a queer actor is to be found for a Febary 2020 terview wh Anupama Chopra for Film Compann, the st members of the film Shubh Mangal ZyadaSaavdhan (a Bollywood gay rom-) claimed that they dned a lot of gay actors but uldn’t fd any. Lead
Contents:
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
- BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
Karan Johar has been cricised for not settg an example for gays India. * bollywood gay director *
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.
INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
* bollywood gay director *
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!
WHY A BOLLYWOOD MEMOIR HAS KICKED UP A STORM ABOUT BEG GAY INDIA
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. 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.
Although homosexualy was only crimalised India 2018, proper reprentatn of LGBTQIA+ muni Indian cema has long been gatherg speed.
BOLLYWOOD RELEAS 'FIRST FILM WH GAY MAN AS LEAD CHARACTER'
Mastream Indian films featurg gay and lbian characters have often been marred by tokenism and naive stereotypg. Memori March (2010)Bengali filmmaker Ruparno Ghosh is an in of India’s queer muny and was one of the first openly gay artists Indian cema. Ghosh plays Ornub, the son’s gay partner, who challeng Arati’s socially termed perceptns of love and pannship, leadg to a tersely marted crique of the hypocrisi of middle-class Bengali society.
Aligarh (2015)Sectn 377 is part of a penal outlawg gay sex, which had remaed force India for 157 years. In 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy. The queer romance is picted by director Geethu Mohandas wh a tenrns that mak universal, focg on the pannship that emerg between Akbar, a gangster, and Ameer (Roshan Mathew), a gay man who is af.