Apurva Asrani-Siddhant opened up on beg a 'gay uple India' a new podst. The former shared his light on Twter and that he was 'proud'.
Contents:
- 8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
- PRI MONTH: SANJAY SURI AND PURAB KOHLI ON PLAYG A GAY UPLE MY BROTHER…NIKHIL
- INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
- APURVA ASRANI-SIDDHANT OPEN UP ON BEG A 'GAY COUPLE IN INDIA' IN PODST, FORMER 'PROUD'
8 BOLLYWOOD STARS AND INDIAN CELEBRI WHO ARE GAY
The actors rellect the love and appreciatn they received om the gay muny * gay couples bollywood *
In a landmark lg, India’s Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy on Thursday. But who are India’s gay celebri?
PRI MONTH: SANJAY SURI AND PURAB KOHLI ON PLAYG A GAY UPLE MY BROTHER…NIKHIL
Wh gay sex only jt beg legal, will take time for the big stars India’s celebry world to e out. Here’s a list of India’s top lbian, gay, and bisexual stars.
Director and producer Karan Johar has never officially e out as gay. Decrimalisg homosexualy and abolishg #Sectn377 is a huge thumbs up for humany and equal rights!
Award-wng filmmaker, edor and wrer Apurva Asrani, who is known workg on succsful films like Satya (1998), Shahid (2013) and CyLights (2014), is one of few openly gay men Indian cema. He ntued: “There is much healg that needs to happen wh the gay muny. “The largt qutn, I thk, before India is not jt terms of legalisg homosexualy bisexualy or the transgenr muny, is social acceptance…there’s a great difference between the two thgs.
INDIAN CELEBS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY AND PROUD TO BE LGBTQIA+
Not long after India’s top urt overturned a lonial era law crimalizg homosexualy, Shelly Chopra Dhar and Gazal Dhaliwal’s 2019 edy-drama “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” picted a queer woman’s attempt to e out to her fay. “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020), “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021) and “Badhaai Do” (2022) each feature gay or trans characters relatnships who eventually e up agast disapprovg fay members. ) Still, as one of the first Indian films to pict homosexualy on screen, igned a discsn about sexualy and LGBTQ rights morn India.
In the years that followed, dramas such as “My Brother… Nikhil” (2005) and “Margara Wh A Straw” (2014) portrayed queer characters sensively – the former is the story of a man diagnosed wh HIV who battl homophobia om his parents and Indian thori, while the latter is about a bisexual teenager wh cerebral palsy who falls love wh a young bld activist.
APURVA ASRANI-SIDDHANT OPEN UP ON BEG A 'GAY COUPLE IN INDIA' IN PODST, FORMER 'PROUD'
It was more mon, however, for Indian films to rce LGBTQ characters to stereotyp or to voke homosexualy for edic purpos.
The 2004 film “Girliend” featur a lbian character who is jealo and vdictive and ultimately meets a tragic end – a textbook example of the “bury your gays” trope. And the 2008 smash h “Dostana, ” about two men who pretend to be a uple so they n share an apartment wh a woman, is rife wh ritured notns of gay men. Today, such films are wily unrstood to be homophobic.
In “Dostana, ” for stance, the character Sameer’s mother is at first distrght at the thought of her son beg gay but ultimately to love and accept his (fake) partner as a son--law – that moment, when removed om s te ntext, is relatively progrsive for s time. In 1861, the lonial ernment troduced a law crimalizg homosexualy, which stood ntrast to centuri of lol cultural attus around sexualy and was only overturned 2018.