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"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. 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.

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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. “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.

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“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. And bee gay relatnships are not regnized Indian law, upl are nied the basic rights heterosexual upl have.

“The law will change and maybe we won’t be crimals after that, ” said Thomas Joseph, 29, who has been wh his partner N Karani, a gay rights activist, for more than five years. Sep 29, 2014, 08:06PM ISTSource: ‘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. Gay World only a uple of days left for the new season of 'Bigg Boss' to start, the list of probable nttants enterg the hoe this season is makg rounds on the ter.

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Gay India 2014 Shant Divgikar. Gay World 2014. 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. (BCCL/Tejas Kudtarkar)03 / 18Surh Ramdas (C), wner, wh 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)04 / 18Mr Gay India 2014 Shant Divgikar his drag avatar Rani Ko-He-Noor durg the grand fale of Mr Gay India 2019 held Mumbai on January 24, 2019.