As India awas a historic gay rights lg, a cy holds s first pri march - The Washgton Post

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r/Bhubanwar_Gay. BHUBANESWAR, India — Adya Das traveled six hours on a b to this eastern Indian cy to attend his first gay pri para on looked around at the crowd as people wove past traffic and templ, holdg rabow flags and gltery signs an exuberant celebratn of gay inty.

“I am gay, ” a loudspeaker blared.

Bhubanwar’s gay pri para me days before a landmark Supreme Court lg, expected Thursday, which is likely to crimalize gay sex this untry of 1.

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But some ways, the historic lg is merely tchg up wh signifint shifts Indian society, where taboos around gay inty are rapidly recent years, more than 30 Indian ci — cludg Bhubanwar, the pal of Odisha state — have held their first gay pri paras. Gay stereotyp are beg challenged film and mass culture, too — a handful of recent blockbter Bollywood films have shown gay characters not jt as ritur or edy figur, but as layered protagonists or supportg out India remas difficult, however.

And where public kissg is owned upon — gay men meet secretly the uned bathrooms of the cy’s park or on datg apps. Even the movement’s most vol champns — some of the anizers of the cy’s first pri march — have not told their parents they are gay or that they attend the change is afoot. Das is now openly gay his remote town of Baripada, about 150  northeast of Bhubanwar, and he timat about a third of s rints support him.

Five years ago, that would have been nceivable, he volunteers wh an unrground anizatn that tri to intify lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people and teach them about sexual health and overg bullyg.

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“We tell them that beg gay is natural, that you won’t be able to change.

Datg apps such as Grdr and Tr have allowed gay people to disver one another and explore their own para was a novelty this cy — most of the marchers and anizers had prevly seen pri events only on YouTube or photographs onle. ” India has flip-flopped on gay rights. In 2009, Delhi’s High Court abolished Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, which outlaws voluntary “rnal terurse agast the orr of nature, ” effectively legalizg gay sex.

But that verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court then, gay activists have created a huge public movement agast the ban, which on rare ocsns has been ed to prosecute gay people but is equently ed by police and vigilante groups to blackmail and threaten closeted members of the gay muny. “We have a mother, drsed que nservatively a sari, stg next to her gay child on natnal televisn and makg the most radil argument — that Sectn 377 go agast fay valu.

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Bee of the hijras’ promence, ernment forms have a separate box for those who intify as “third genr, ” and many stat provi welfare programs such as subsidized tn for trans many here have never enuntered openly gay, lbian or bisexual people and still do not believe they exist Bhubanwar, said Bijaya Biswal, one of the anizers of the pri event.

Many who attend talked about the need for further legal protectns and rights to protect the LGBTQ muny, and the next steps for the gay movement — such as rights to marriage and adoptn. “A new fight begs now, ” said Venkath Kodula, 26, who travels around the untry attendg pri march and has been to ne this Das, the visor attendg his first pri march, beg able to walk the streets and shout about his gay inty reprents a sign of progrs. There's also pl a lively young universy populatn, and what uld be the world's bt cholate chip okie, Flour Bakery + Cafe's Chunky Lola, the name of which refers to a gay ctomer's bulldog.

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