India's First Openly Gay Prce Turned His Palace Into a Safe Haven for the LGBTQ+ Communy

Contents:

• NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY
• INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY DIA
• 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY

Now a Black ach the sport has broken many barriers by g out as gay. S league to e out as gay.

While Maxen is the first male ach to e out as gay, there have been exampl of NFL players who have e out.

INDIAN GAY UPL BEG LEGAL BATTLE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first gay player to be drafted when he was picked by the then-St. Among women ach, Katie Sowers, a former assistant wh the San Francis 49ers, has e out as gay. Except no one else knew about the gay uple’s was 2008.

Homosexualy was yet to ga a gree of acceptance eply nservative India, wh many gay upl facg stigma and isolatn.

So Saxena and Kotia took their time, watchg om a distance how people’s acceptance of homosexualy was changg.

GAY DIA

Over the years, as Indian society beme more acceptg of homosexualy and much of the untry’s LGBTQ muny began celebratg their sexualy openly, the uple cid to make their relatnship known to their iends and fay. Three other gay upl have filed siar petns that will be heard by the untry’s top urt March. If legalized, India would bee the send enomy Asia after Taiwan to regnize same-sex marriage, a signifint right for the untry’s LGBTQ muny more than four years after the top urt crimalized gay sex.

The historic lg 2018 that stck down a lonial-era law that had ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison expand nstutnal rights for the gay muny. The cisn was seen as a landmark victory for gay rights, wh one judge sayg would “pave the way for a better future.

”India’s Supreme Court has, however, signaled uld challenge the ernment’s January, s llegium — prisg the Chief Jtice of India and two Jtic — said the ernment was opposg a gay judge’s nomatn part bee of his sexual orientatn.

8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY

Gay upl and LGBTQ activists argue that by refg to regnize same-sex marriage, the ernment is privg homosexual upl of their right to equaly enshred the nstutn and opportuni enjoyed by married heterosexual upl.

Gay and lbian upl are not allowed to have children born wh the help of an Indian surrogate mother.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

Many such upl believe that legal regnn of same-sex marriage would not jt be a val step toward equaly but also rult more people g out as homosexuals and strengtheng their relatnship wh the state.

Homosexualy has long rried a stigma India’s tradnal society, even though there has been a shift attus toward same-sex upl recent years.