It might be illegal and disputed but Bangalore embrac s gays | Mt

Contents:

• GAY DATG BANGALORE
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BANGALORE
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BANGALORE
• IT MIGHT BE ILLEGAL AND DISPUTED BUT BANGALORE EMBRAC S GAYS
• GAYS BANGALORE

GAY DATG BANGALORE

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But the Delhi and Mumbai muni are, Bangaloreans say, domated by cis gay men, many olr and many affluent. “Six feet tall wh a four-ch dreadlock bun, ” as he self-scrib, the “girly” queer man speaks movgly about the history of hijra and lbian activism Bengalu, and the role urban cis gay men have played makg opposn to Sectn 377 the poltar of mastream queer activism India. ”Muwiya argu that the rpectabily polics of a gay muny that creasgly adopts a “shirt, pants, crisp, ironed” athetic pursu of a 377 repeal has flattened out the diversy of exprsn that exists wh the muny.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BANGALORE

Aled began thkg about sexualy and genr when he learned that his high school bt iend was gay. LGBTQIA: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex and Asexual.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

Thursdays, meanwhile, brg together a group of rmatn technology (IT) profsnals, lawyers, doctors, artists and others unr the umbrella, Good As You (y, that stands for GAY).

They put out newsletters and offer a social platform for gays to teract and share experienc.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BANGALORE

Earlier this week, the Delhi high urt directed the Unn ernment to figure out s stance on homosexualy; the home mistry favours punishment (and that is the current law), while the health mistry is agast enforcg this law for issu related to health monorg. In mid-July, the Indian anchise of London-based TimeOut magaze plans to lnch Bangalore and clu a sectn wh gay- and lbian-specific ntent and listgs, as has done Mumbai and New Delhi.

IT MIGHT BE ILLEGAL AND DISPUTED BUT BANGALORE EMBRAC S GAYS

All this is playg out here even as India bat s attus—and laws—towards homosexualy.

Earlier this week, the Delhi high urt directed the Unn ernment to figure out s stance on homosexualy; the mistry of home affairs favours prosecutn (homosexualy is punishable unr Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co), while the health mistry is agast enforcg this law for issu related to health monorg. But, ci such as Bangalore are showg no such quandary: Over the last few years, a gay scene has emerged and entered the mastream here. “I was astonished at the gay scene Bangalore, " says Narh Fernans, edor--chief of TimeOut, which also provis weekly event listgs for Mt.

Gog by anecdotal evince, Bangalore may very well be the gay pal of India. “Many IT very progrsive polici when to their LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) employe. " Ined, India’s acceptance of gays is nowhere near Europe or the US—last week, California legalized same-sex marriage—and homosexualy remas a crimal act here.

GAYS BANGALORE

For many gays the cy, GAY has been a steppg stone. Apart om anizg film ftivals wh LGBT ntent and brgg out a newsletter lled Sangha Mra, the group members have gone on to set up other non-profs—Swabhava has unsellg servic and a helple for the sizeable LGBT populatn, while Sangama works exclively wh non-English-speakg sexual mori, cludg lbians, gays, female to male transgenr, hijras (male to female transsexuals) and kotis (feme men). In a cy where relatns between lols and newers are often straed, gay anizatns Bangalore report much operatn between the two.