For Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the Natnal Mm of the Amerin Indian, ved Native iends to tell how their tradnal culture saw s LGBTQ members. A Chirihua Apache iend replied, “Now, Dennis, this is a human qutn, not [jt] Native.” We agree. But we also appreciate hearg what Native Amerins have learned, renstcted, or been unable to renstct about this part of our shared history and experience.
Contents:
- BHUPEN KHAKHAR'S GAY PATG SOLD FOR RERD RS 22.5 CRORE
- THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
- NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
- INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS PARENTS WANTED HIM TO HAVE 'NVERSN BRA SURGERY'
- 'I LL NVERSN THERAPY TORTURE,' SAYS INDIAN LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST AND WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE
BHUPEN KHAKHAR'S GAY PATG SOLD FOR RERD RS 22.5 CRORE
* indian gay art *
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. Sunil Gupta | Towards an Indian Gay Image, Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi | The Metropolan Mm of Art.
THE SLOW EVOLUTN OF GAY CULTURE INDIA
Societal valu, the ste system, arranged marriag, the high probabily of beg dishered for g out — India, everythg ns unter to gay liberatn. * indian gay art *
While travelg through New Delhi, Gupta—who is gay—beme terted documentg urban gay life there.
However, he learned that although a gay muny existed, nothg happened publicly, and men certaly would not want to be photographed. Fstrated, Gupta staged a few photographs of anonymo men purportedly cisg var lotns around Delhi, which rulted a group of fourteen gelat-silver prts that, until 2020, were rarely exhibed or published, and were later tled Towards an Indian Gay image picts a man wh his back to the mera, holdg a cigarette, wh his head cropped out of the ame as he gaz toward the Mughal monument, Humayan’s tomb. It was first published The Guardian November 1982 to acpany an article by Gupta, "They dare not speak s name Delhi: Sunil Gupta on the secret sufferg of India’s homosexual muny.
NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
" At the time, beg gay India was illegal as creed by Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, stuted 1861 durg Brish lonial le. An exclively gay inty do not seem possible. Towards an Indian Gay Image, Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi.
June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month the Uned Stat. Native natns are siar to other world populatns the mographic reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals.
Adopted as part of the morn pan-Indian vobulary 1990 durg the third annual ter-tribal Native Amerin/First Natns Gay and Lbian Amerin Conference, Wnipeg, Manoba, refers to dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, transsexual, or genr-fluid.
INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS PARENTS WANTED HIM TO HAVE 'NVERSN BRA SURGERY'
For our pri observance this year, the mm asked our Native iends, “How did your tribe tradnally view dividuals who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr? My grandmother, the late Lucy Lewis, had gay and lbian iends.
'I LL NVERSN THERAPY TORTURE,' SAYS INDIAN LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST AND WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE
It took the ath of his mother for Khakhar to create this lyril claratn of homosexual love 1982, openg up a life he had kept visible om his fay and most of his iends for s. "The 6x6 ft nvas-which plac the sexual wh the sacred - had bee a tone the gay cultural landspe. "The patg later starred Tate Morn's 2016 'You Can't Please All' exhibn of Khakhar's work, the first retrospective of an Indian artist to be held at the artist and curator Timothy Hyman, a book on Khakhar, had wrten: "Always regnised as among Khakhar's most important patgs, this divid and double-sled image has bee somethg of an in for gay culture far beyond India.
Back Augt 2020, I started curatg a list of Indigeno Two-Spir and Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer artists that people n fancially support or follow. Homosexualy Art Throughout History and the World. For lennia art has reprented society, and for lennia art has reprented male love, or what today we ll homosexualy.