Gay Mumbai 2023 Travel Gui - Hotels, Bars, & Events

Contents:

• GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI
• GAY DATG MUMBAI
• GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN MUMBAI
• ‘INTIFIED AS GAY’—MAKG UP QUEER MUNI AND SEXUAL SELV MUMBAI

GAY : MUMBAI – A LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUI

We learnt that followg the historic 2018 cisn to crimalise homosexualy India, the gay scene Mumbai is fact on the rise.

The gay ‘scene’, once ncealed to the unrworld, is slowly beg accepted both socially and polilly, wh regular events poppg up around the cy. They also anise regular gay-meets and events, cludg club nights at Invcible Boudoir & Jard – Aptly anagrammed as Invcible BJ!

While Mumbai is relatively safe for gay travellers, naturally there are some thgs to be aware of when enjoyg your time the cy. You uld say this falls unr the tegory of rpectg social etiquette; however, ’s important to note that this isn’t a le jt for gay travellers Mumbai.

GAY DATG MUMBAI

While there is not a specifc gay neighborhood, and any of the LGBTQ parti and events are unrground, there are some gay-iendly spots popular wh both lols and tourists.

They are jt like anyone Mumbai lookg for rental but whose qut for a physil shelter and a genial flatmate had routely e up agast biased landlords, tolerant roommat and pryg neighbours until they found each other as well as the sancty of a secure lost touch wh his fay after the 25-year-old me out as gay eight months ago. ”Jayh and Abhra’s happy hoehold where rpectful strangers live like fay ow self to GHAR – short for Gay Hog Assistance Rource – a pan-India lotn-based, short and long-term acmodatn rource bullet board that has been helpg people om the LGBT muny fd accs to safe and iendly hog wh each other sce 1998.

Followg the momento Supreme Court lg this month that stck down Sectn 377 of the IPC that crimalised gay sex, the queer muny has had a lot to celebrate. It ma 23-year-old Maddy’s transn om his nservative hometown Solapur to Pune easy when he moved wh a gay and a straight roommate.

GAY MUMBAI TRAVEL GUI

What started as a platform to enurage the Di LGBTQ+ muny to share their stori, Gaysi Fay has grown to be one of the most popular spac for the artists and wrers the muny. Along wh an active onle publitn, they also moved towards prt wh Gaysi Z, prtg a llectn of stori and artworks om the Gay muny.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN MUMBAI

The Humsafar Tst (HST) was found April 1994 by journalist Ashok Row Kavi, media profsnal Suhail Abbasi and filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan, to reach out to LGBTQ muni Mumbai Metro and surroundg areas.

‘INTIFIED AS GAY’—MAKG UP QUEER MUNI AND SEXUAL SELV MUMBAI

After much workg and advocy wh the Mumbai Municipal Corporatn beme the first openly Gay Communy Based Organisatn to be allotted space a Municipal buildg Mumbai. In the last two s the outreach programme has reached out to more than 110, 000 Gay, Men havg Sex wh Men and Transgenr and distributed over 700, 000 ndoms every year at more than 129 physil s Mumbai and nearly 40000 HIV tts and 70000 STIs screened and treatments provid. HST reach out to over 10, 000 gay men and men who have sex wh men and transgenr muni every year through s social media and onle outreach programs.

HST anis advocy workshops for health re provis, law enforcement agenci, judiciary, legislators, policians and polil parti, Government bodi, media, stunt muny to sensise them on Gay, MSM and TG issu. The Tst has addrsed var issu faced by the LGBTQ muny like g out to self and fay, alg wh relatnships, alg wh legal issu of gay men and handlg crisis suatns wh fai, cheaters, extortn, blackmail and vlence that is flicted on the LGBTQ muny cg fear of Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co that crimaliz nsensual sex between two adults private spac. In 12 s, adult, homosexual mal were threatened of a false accatn unr Sectn 377, IPC and victims of extortn by ordary persons, sometim upto Rs.