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Contents:

• INDIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE — UNN BETWEEN AN IITIAN AND HIS PARTNER OM VIETNAM
• IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’ TELANGANA
• ‘WE DID IT OUR WAY’: TELANGANA’S FIRST GAY MARRIED COUPLE SPEAK ON LOVE, LIFE & MORE
• KERALA'S 1ST GAY COUPLE WHO GOT MARRIED IN A TEMPLE MOVE HIGH COURT TO GET MARRIAGE REGISTERED
• FIRST TIME TELANGANA, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’
• GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• PRIYAKANTA AND SURAJ: MEET MANIPUR’S FIRST ONSCREEN GAY UPLE
• MEET KERALA'S FIRST GAY UPLE TO GET 'MARRIED'
• IN THE WAKE OF PRI MONTH: ABHISHEK AND CHAANYA’S BLISSFUL JOURNEY IN INDIA’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
• IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE GET MARRIED HYRABAD
• PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
• GAY UPLE TI THE KNOT HYRABAD, SAY NO PERMISSN NEED FOR ‘HAPPS’
• GAY UPLE OM HYRABAD TI THE KNOT; SEE CELEBRATORY PICS
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

INDIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE — UNN BETWEEN AN IITIAN AND HIS PARTNER OM VIETNAM

At a time when Supreme Court has agreed to rensir Sectn 377 of Indian Penal Co, India's first gay marriage took place Yavatmal, Maharashtra. His parents were ially worried that their son beg gay would tarnish their rpect the society. What's more, they also took part the Gay Pri Para that took place San Francis 2007 to support when Hrishi told his parents about gettg engaged to Vh, his parents and sister celebrated wh a receptn.

Overall the event was peaceful, and a celebratn of two souls g together to have a wonrful life ahead"The uple is now back to the US their home and they look forward to adoptg kids as neher of them are cled to have blogil Cred - Facebook Read more -In the face of great prejudice, this sub-spector married her lbian partner a tradnal Hdu weddgThis gay marriage bure is helpg same-sex upl fd love Do you have an tertg story to share? Gay uple Supriyo Chakraborty and Abhay Dang wh their iends durg their promisg ceremony, on the outskirts of Hyrabad.

IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’ TELANGANA

This is the first gay marriage the Telangana state.

(PTI Photo)In a first, Telangana saw a rabow weddg on Saturday, where a gay uple exchanged vows a betiful ceremony supported by iends and fay.

While India stck down a lonial-era law that crimalised gay sex 2018, same-sex marriag are yet to be regnised the untry. Gettg married a unique rabow ceremony, Hyrabad's 31-year-old Supriyo Chakraborty and 35-year-old Abhay Dange share their views on love, life and g out as gay men to the world. “Upon readg, I realised that homosexualy was a crime India, and I was disheartened as a young child, ” says Abhay, who had to read up on homosexualy to accept himself.

‘WE DID IT OUR WAY’: TELANGANA’S FIRST GAY MARRIED COUPLE SPEAK ON LOVE, LIFE & MORE

“I have been asked if I have had tts done to check whether I’m ed gay.

That would be a great way to show support and ‘normalise’ homosexualy. Nikh and Sonu, the first married gay uple om Kerala who got married 2019 have now filed a petn the Kerala High Court seekg to legally register their marriage. In their petn, they argued that the refal to register homosexual marriag unr the Special Marriage Act 1954 vlat the prcipl of equaly, non-arbrars, non-discrimatn, dividual digny and personal tonomy unr Articl 14, 15(1), 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Constutn of India.

“The stutn of marriage affords certa rights and privileg to the persons matrimony the society and due to the aforaid excln, the homosexual upl like the petners are nied an opportuny to enjoy siar rights and privileg.

KERALA'S 1ST GAY COUPLE WHO GOT MARRIED IN A TEMPLE MOVE HIGH COURT TO GET MARRIAGE REGISTERED

Though the Supreme Court had 2018 scrapped Sectn 377 and crimalized homosexualy the verdict stopped short of makg gay marriag legal.

Said a gay uple who ma their relatnship official a private ceremony held at the outskirts of the cy on December 18. At a time when gay marriag are illegal India, the uple held a ‘promisg ceremony’ where they exchanged rgs and vows and celebrated their unn wh close to 60 fay and close iends.

REUTERS/Anhree FadnavisSummarySupreme Court to hear gay marriage se JanuaryFour gay upl say nied basic fundamental rightsModi ernment has opposed same-sex marriageCase seen as key tt for Modi ernmentNEW DELHI, Dec 19 (Rters) - Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such a historic verdict 2018, India's top urt crimalised homosexualy by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex. Dpe the 2018 lg, members of India's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny pla about a lack of acceptance and discrimatn agast gay people Indian activists say that while 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, they are still prived of legal backg for same-sex marriag, a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married three Supreme Court filgs seen by Rters, the upl say that whout legal regnn of beg married, they are nied rights such as those lked to medil nsent, pensns, adoptn or even simpler thgs like club memberships for upl.

FIRST TIME TELANGANA, GAY UPLE SAYS ‘I DO’

"In tth, they have no rights at all, " the filg four gay upl want a Supreme Court lg that modifi or terprets laws a way that allows same-genr marriag, the urt filgs is a sensive subject the socially nservative untry of 1. 4 billn people, where speakg openly about homosexualy is taboo for pleas have already triggered a bate on prime-time TV news and generated edorials newspapers whether the time has e for the world's largt mocracy to jo roughly three dozen untri where such marriag are Uned Stat this month approved legislatn that provis feral regnn to same-sex marriag a bid to further safeguard gay Indian Supreme Court s, which follow many lawsus filed lower urts where no cisn was reached, will be a key tt for Modi's Hdu natnalist ernment and his Monday, a feral lawmaker om Modi's party appealed to lleagu the upper hoe of parliament to oppose legal regnn of marriage between same-sex upl.

"Backg the upl are high-profile lawyers cludg one of India's former Attorney Generals and another unsel named Srabh Kirpal, who is openly gay and an terview last month acced Modi's ernment of layg his elevatn as a state judge due to his sexual and Modi's office did not rpond to a requt for ment on those remarks. Manipur's first onscreen gay uple Priyakanta Laishram & Suraj Ngashepam.

It was not that long ago that you uld barely fd a non-stereotypil gay character on a movie or TV show, let alone a male uple. But thgs have changed, and now, we see gay upl portrayed wh the digny and rpect they serve.

GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Priyakanta Laishram’s forthg Manipur’s first gay-themed movie: “Onens” is a movie that do the same.

Priyakanta Laishram and Suraj Ngashepam, billed as the first gay uple Manipuri cema, have viewers hooked. Every actor said no bee was the role of a gay man. Inially, Ngashepam was ncerned about his macho image of a nventnal film hero and hant to do a gay weddg scene.

He is hopeful that the film helps change the perceptn of homosexualy beg “a taboo” and that the procs of g out to parents be easier for kids, pecially smaller ci and towns.

PRIYAKANTA AND SURAJ: MEET MANIPUR’S FIRST ONSCREEN GAY UPLE

However, I kept this feelg to myself, bee of the taboo nature of the matter, ” wrote Nikh Usha Phkaran on his viral social media post while gog on to expla how normal is to be a homosexual, and reveal that Sonu M S and he have been livg as a “married uple” for a year. “There are many gay upl Kerala who are leadg secret liv and I thk is meangls.

However, is important to legalise gay marriage as right now we are jt livg as partners ont of the society. Their path to beg the first gay uple to marry India is a ttament to their unwaverg love, their fai’ open-mdns, and the evolvg acceptance of LGBTQ+ relatnships Indian society.

MEET KERALA'S FIRST GAY UPLE TO GET 'MARRIED'

Maybe if we get a work opportuny a gay-iendly untry, we will nsir then.

As the Supreme Court of India rerv s verdict on same-sex marriage India, Abhishek and Chaanya’s love story, culmatg India’s first gay marriage, spir all.

IN THE WAKE OF PRI MONTH: ABHISHEK AND CHAANYA’S BLISSFUL JOURNEY IN INDIA’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

For the first time Telugu stat, a gay uple has entered to Dange (34) and Supriyo Chakraborty (31) exchanged rgs and vow at a private ceremony held at a rort on the outskirts of Hyrabad on December 18. Tollywood actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu had supported gay marriage and took to Twter to ngratulate the uple.

IN A FIRST, GAY UPLE GET MARRIED HYRABAD

On Monday, the Supreme Court of India said a five-judge bench will start hearg fal arguments over grantg legal regnn to same-sex marriag on April 18, proceedgs of which will be livtreamed on s webse and the urt l favour of legalizg same-sex marriage, will be a landmark moment for LGBTQ people India and the entire majory of the 32 untri and terrori that have already enacted marriage equaly laws are the Ameris and Europe — and, when to relign, are predomantly Christian — so a posive oute India uld fluence laws elsewhere the the seChakraborty and Dang were one of two upl who ially petned the Supreme Court to change the law — the other is Parth Phiroze Mehrotra and Uday Raj Anand, a gay uple New Delhi — but the number of petners has sce grown, and the Supreme Court has also transferred several s om other high urts, cludg those Delhi and petn argu that India's Special Marriage Act, 1954 should allow same-sex upl to have the same legal right to marriage as oppose sex upl and that nyg them that right vlat several articl of India's Special Marriage Act solemniz marriage outsi of the relign or fah of eher spoe, as opposed to unns registered unr laws related to relig unns, such as the Hdu Marriage Act, It HappensTennsee law rtrictg drag is the 1st of many such proposed bills the U. Sgapore to repeal lonial-era law banng sex between menPri celebratns happeng war-torn Kharkiv as LGBTQ muny fights for rights"The urts are not bound by popular opn, " said Shep Sgh, the founr and director of the Indian onle LGBTQ magaze Gaylaxy.

"WATCH | LGBTQ muny India marks 2018 crimalizatn of homosexualy: Gay sex ban overturned IndiaCBC News spoke to members of the Indo-Canadian muny to fd out what the historic lg means to of rights brgs bra draPolil and societal chang haven't happened quickly enough for many LGBTQ Indians, who have opted to rettle more progrsive untri.

He referred to a 2014 World Bank se study, tled The Enomic Cost of Homophobia, that timated India may be sacrificg up to 1. Conservative phback expectedA urt cisn allowg same-sex marriage is not likely to benef everyone the same way, utned Sgh, of the magaze Gaylaxy. "Shep Sgh, the founr and director of the Indian onle LGBTQ magaze Gaylaxy, says a urt cisn allowg same-sex marriage is not likely to benef everyone the same way, pecially women who are poor.

PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI

(Submted by Shep Sgh)Women, pecially those who are poor, face different stggl Indian society, Sgh said, while men "whether gay or straight, they have a lot of leeway.

The duo of Alankaran events who handled the weddg of first dian gay uple Hyrabad. The duo of Alankaran events who handled the weddg of first dian gay uple HyrabadThe event planners say, “We had to te people about what is legal and what is not.

Nived and Rahim would probably be the first gay uple om the State to get married after the Constutn Bench of the Supreme Court. ” In s epoch-makg judgement, a five-member Bench of the apex urt crimalised nsensual sex between adults of same urt held that the sectn would not apply to nsensual same-sex acts between homosexuals, lbians, and other sexual mori.

GAY UPLE TI THE KNOT HYRABAD, SAY NO PERMISSN NEED FOR ‘HAPPS’

Every day, we get phone lls om gay people who are facg unimagable societal and faial prsure to get married to a woman, ” he lbian marriagNo lbian marriag have taken place Kerala so far.

Jun 23, 2021 12:16 PM IST Raisg children India as gay parents, wh a set of challeng, Adya Advani shar his story. For Adya Advani and Michael Tarr, raisg two children as a gay uple India, has been a challengg, but, a betiful journey.

GAY UPLE OM HYRABAD TI THE KNOT; SEE CELEBRATORY PICS

Havg cid to raise children India as a gay uple, me wh s own set of challeng, but the uple was adamant to raise their kids India. Am Shah pictured wh Adya Madiraju durg the uple's tradnal Hdu weddg New Jersey 2019 | Picture urty: @am_aatma/InstagramKEY HIGHLIGHTSTheir Di weddg ma a splash uple heard the good news after four rounds of -vro the LGBTQ muny have sce thanked the uple for spirg Indian Amerin gay uple whose tradnal Hdu weddg broke the ter 2019, are now expectg their first child Shah is a Gujarati Amerin om New Jersey who got married to Adya Madiraju, a Telugu man born New Delhi, his uple has e a long way learng about the nty-grti of havg blogil children sce their mega-viral unn — acrdg to People magaze, which shared photos om their paterny unrstandg the difference between surrogat, egg donors and gtatnal rriers to fally havg a succsful -vro fertilisatn their fourth round, Am and Adya have some life-changg curveballs thrown they way — cludg learng that havg a baby is far more expensive realy for a same-sex uple than heterosexual parents.

“We won't be talkg about gay upl like we do now.

"We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " Adya add. Dec 20, 2021 08:09 PM IST The gay men are believed to be first gay uple of Telangana. Touted as the 'first' weddg of gay men Telangana, Supriyo Chakraborty and Abhay Dang, entered to wedlock makg their nearly -long relatnship official.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Indian gay uple Supriyo Chakraborty, right, and Abhay Dang, gture durg their pre-weddg ceremony on the outskirts of Hyrabad(AP Photo) The gay men are believed to be first gay uple of Telangana. The ceremony was officiated by gay uple's iend Sophia David, who is also om the LGBTQ muny.

On the ocsn, the gay men celebrated their togetherns wh close iends and fay members. The uple ll themselv 'soulmat' (Source: Supriyo Chakraborty/Sahni Stud/Instagram)In a first, a gay uple Hyrabad tied the knot. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN