The 24-year-old Televisn and film actor reprented India at Mr. Gay World 2014.
Contents:
- BIGG BOSS 8: MR GAY INDIA SHANT DIVGIKAR HOP TO SENSISE TV VIEWERS TO LGBT E
- INDIA'S GAYS, LBIANS 'SUDNLY AAID' AFTER COURT RULG
- BIGG BOSS 8: SALMAN KHAN SUPPORTS ‘MR GAY 2014’ SHANT DIVGIKAR'S SEXUALY
- MR GAY INDIA 2014 SHANT DIVGIKAR TO PARTICIPATE 'BIGG BOSS 8'?
- MR GAY INDIA 2019: GRAND FALE
BIGG BOSS 8: MR GAY INDIA SHANT DIVGIKAR HOP TO SENSISE TV VIEWERS TO LGBT E
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Shant Divgikar, the wner of India 2014, hop that his prence on the realy show ‘Bigg Boss 8’ n change perceptns of people about the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny.
MUMBAI, India — When openly gay actor and mol Shant Divgikar marched to India’s answer to the Big Brother hoe last month, he was reachg for more than a few mut the limelight.
"I n sensize the people about my muny by beg the face of LGBT muny ‘Bigg Boss’, ” the 24-year-old told terviewers before the show kicked off, g the term often ed to refer to lbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals.
INDIA'S GAYS, LBIANS 'SUDNLY AAID' AFTER COURT RULG
‘Mr Gay India 2014’ Shant Divgikar and his perky personaly has been retag the entertament factor the realy show ‘Bigg Boss 8’ and host Salman Khan's support is a cherry on the top. * mr gay india 2014 *
Gay India 2014’s words and promence e at an important time for India’s gay muny. While Divgikar me of age the wake of a 2009 Delhi High Court cisn reversg a lonial-era law banng homosexual acts, the untry has recently bee cidly more hostile to gays and some circl, that lg ma beg openly gay or lbian no longer taboo. Gay pri paras were held throughout India, cludg Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata and New Delhi.
Gay and lbian bars and f sprouted up ci around the the Delhi Supreme Court restated the lonial law December, threateng agile gas ma by the LGBT muny. "Every gay person has to live a double life""Gay sex is not natural and we nnot support somethg which is unnatural, ” Ranjnath Sgh, who was print of the BJP and is now a bet mister, told journalists after the December endurg attus evably hurt the isolated the Am Bachchan, 35, realized he was gay he had no one to talk to his nservative village. Police often try to extract brib om gays and lbians exchange for remag silent, activists say.
BIGG BOSS 8: SALMAN KHAN SUPPORTS ‘MR GAY 2014’ SHANT DIVGIKAR'S SEXUALY
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“Every gay person has to live a double life, ” he said.
“So they are a man when they are outsi and they are gay private. Neverthels, gays and lbians worry they will be fired om their jobs, evicted om their hom or worse. 25, a transgenr woman was killed after beg phed off a movg tra while gay men are harassed, lbians face a specific kd and harsher type of discrimatn, said Giani, Nahani’s partner and an LGBT rights activist.
The prsur, pl the fact that women generally do not feel they n be open about their sexualy, margalize many lbians and female bisexuals India, activists make matters worse, the recent Supreme Court cisn outlawg homosexual acts but not crimalizg gays and lbians themselv, is wily misunrstood, Giani said. “It’s not illegal to say you are lbian or gay, ” said Giani. ”So many gay men and lbians worry that they are fallg behd when to fightg for equal rights after the gas that followed the 2009 stggle for same-sex marriage and adoptn has been put on hold.
MR GAY INDIA 2014 SHANT DIVGIKAR TO PARTICIPATE 'BIGG BOSS 8'?
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MR GAY INDIA 2019: GRAND FALE
Read More01 / 18Surh Ramdas (C), wner, flanked by Arjun Das (R), first nner-up and Van Sh (L), send nner-up durg the grand fale of Mr Gay India 2019 held Mumbai on January 24, 2019. (BCCL/Tejas Kudtarkar)02 / 18Actrs Cela Jaley wh Surh Ramdas (C), wner, flanked by Arjun Das (R), first nner-up and Van Sh (L), send nner-up durg the grand fale of Mr Gay India 2019 held Mumbai on January 24, 2019.