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queerism1969 · 3 months

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shut-up-rabert · 1 year

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Honestly, some far right "hindu" groups may not be too keen on lgbtq which goes on to tell you how far from Hindu they truly are (come on, even Dr. Bhagwat supports the lgbt), but they aren't out there to harm them either. They still keep their distance, out of spite albiet, despite being problematic in more ways as I mentioned in a previous post.

That being said, the far left lgbtq groups aren't a treat either. The reason why most Hindus unaware of the group refuse to accept them is because of 🌟bollywood🌟 and Turk and British rule deluding us, currently the pride parade fiascos are a much bigger factor in the groups being alienated these days. That smbg lines drama this year, Bharat mata being a lesbian and Kashmir drama last year.

Look, I'm not saying that they are invalid in having whatever viewpoints they want because more often than not, they are ostracized and go through atrocities for neing the way they are, and develope trauma and hatred, and its human decency to not bring up trauma inducing stuff in front of people, even if they are being assholes. Do you think I will go to a rape victim who hates all men because of what she went through? Fuck no.

But here's the deal: anyone who has hatred because of trauma is ,while entitled to their opinion, is not allowed to be disrespectful to other people who did nothing wrong. A rape victim still isn't right in wanting men to die. A pride parade participant who had trauma because of conservative 'hindu' parents isn't right in disrespecting hindu religion and culture at the pride either, because that isn't constricted to their family and bringing it to mass media will hurt sentiments.

No matter what you went through, gling out of your way giving disrespect to disconnected people is still wrong.

And this is regarding the ones who have actually have trauma, most aren't even close. The same way majority of the "all men should die" radfems haven't gone through anything severe and are raficalised by the net

They are simply pissed off and decide to take their frustration out in a way that not only makes it difficult for religious queer folks to connect to them, but also make it difficulties those in closet by making enemies out of previously unconcerened/not severely negative family members.

When you are a flagbearer of a moment, you are supposed to be careful with the message you send. We all saw what happened when the feminist moment failed in that and let the crazies hijack, even equality driven men and women refuse to call themselves feminist today and the concept of gender equality is seen seperate from feminism. Same is beginning with other leftist (and even rightist) ideologies. I'm afraid the severity of present Queer moment is going in the same direction, because the base for it seems to be formed.

#lgbtq #delhi pride parade #gay pride parade #desiblr #hindublr #hinduphobia

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whatevergreen · 2 years

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If your reaction to LGBTQ imagery is revulsion, disgust etc, then you are an ignorant bigot with serious psychological problems regarding sex, sexuality, and gender.

#gay #lgbtq #straight pride #pride #jesus #nyc #san francisco #london #paris #beijing #new delhi

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onetimetwotimesthreetimess · 6 months

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DELHI, INDIA, PRIDE 2023 | 26TH NOVEMBER

Okay, now that I’m done being overwhelmed from all of this. Here’s what I want to say.

Every year that I attend pride, my heart grows bigger. There is no place in the world as safe as the one created between a crowd of people who are just trying to live their lives the way they want. You’ll never find a softer, happier and funnier place to be in. Like every time; I met some of the sweetest, nicest and funniest people this year. I’ll cherish that forever.

But here’s what I want to say; and this one’s for the younger kids. Representation matters so, so much in the world. It’s so important to see your stories on screen, in books, in art, in and around the world. It is crucial that we all have that. But, you also need to go out in the world and actually interact with the LGBTQIA+ community. It will be the biggest surprise of your life because you will realise how not-rigid and beautiful the community really is. The right terminology is absolutely important while referring to certain groups, but y’all have to understand that these are real people, we’re not just stories; we’re not just a stat, we’re real and the ones you meet in real life will teach you more about the community than anything else.

I’ve met and known people who call themselves fag, and they’re okay with it. You don’t get to tell them otherwise because there’s a history there. A history of reclaiming something that was used to hurt them. But there are also those who would never utter those terms. You don’t get to criticise them as well. When you meet these people, these very real people, it will blow you by the sheer strength of their will. It would be conflicting because social media teaches us there’s only way to be gay—it’s not true. You will meet fifty different types of trans people and everyone will be as special as they can. You will meet gays, lesbians, bisexuals, aspecs, aromanticism, pan sexuals/demi and a hundred other who are still trying to find a word for themselves. They will not be defined by their clothes, or their voices or their surgeries. They will only be defined by their kindness and heart but I repeat, you absolutely need to meet these people. They are real. We are real. And you will not find us on tumblr/social media discourses.

This one’s for the younger queer kids, please do not fall under the traps of the right way to be queer. Do not get into a pointless, intellectually superior discourse when there’s a living person standing in front of you, telling you who they are. When you’re only interacting with a community from behind a screen, you only see a one-dimensional picture. The truth is often far different.

The LGBTQIA+ community is not as rigid as tumblr/other forms of social media might make you believe. There is no right or wrong terminology in my opinion, no right or wrong way to live—you just have to accept that every person you meet can choose to do whatever the fuck they want.

But to really interact with the community and understand the history and our present fight, you need to interact with the ones outside. The ones living and breathing and fighting on the streets.

And to all the queer kids/adults who do not have access to these places and community yet, I am sending you all my love. I am putting alstroemerias in your hands, as they represent connection. Because when even if you all can’t be here, every time I am here, every time we are here, holding each other’s hands and hearts, we’re thinking of you. We’re fighting for you.

#i can’t be normal about this #no other feeling like being in a pride #lgbtqia+#gay rights #india #desi tag #desi tumblr #south asia

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rapeculturerealities · 2 years

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Queer Rights are Human Rights, say Students at ‘Pride March’ in Delhi University | NewsClick

There were songs, and there was assertion that “we will love who we want.” Powerful slogans like ‘Love is Love’ and ‘Queer will not live in fear’ were heard at the ‘Pride Parade’ at Arts Faculty in Delhi University, organised by the Students Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday.

June 1 marks the beginning of ‘pride month’ observed in honour of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969 in New York when gay and lesbian rights activists protested for a week to oppose systemic oppression of queer communities. Till 1966, it was illegal to serve alcohol to gay persons in public bars in the New York State. Similarly, homosexuality was considered an offence. In 1969, Seymour Pine, a deputy inspector raided Stonewall Bar in New York City to detain gay persons. The raid created a huge uproar among people, who protested over a week demanding queer rights. The protests are known to be a watershed moment in the movement to reclaim rights of the queer community.

On Wednesday, participants in the ‘pride march’ said queer communities in India were facing a double assault as the “politics of masculinity” had tightened its grip over the country in previous few years, coupled with predatory market forces “commoditising their feelings.”

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ittibittititti · 1 year

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More excerpts:

1. In 1986, journalist Ashok Row Kavi penned an article about himself for Savvy Magazine, which became the first ‘coming out’ story from India.

2. .....but then in 1977, writer and math wizard Shakuntla Devi published “The World of Homosexuals”. Arguably the first of its kind in India, the book contained interviews with homosexual men, set against the backdrop of the Emergency years.

3. The ‘90s also saw the emergence ‘women-loving-women’ in India. This was when activist and academic Gita Thadani set up Sakhi, a women’s helpline and lesbian resource centre which facilitated cross-country networking between queer women.

4. “BOMGaY”, a 12 minute long film ...... was made in 1996. It follows several storylines of queer Indians ......remains an important part of queer cinema in India.

5. .....routinely denied accommodation by prejudiced landlords and homeowners......between 1998 and 1999, G.H.A.R (that’s Gay Housing Assistance Resource) was founded in Bombay by Sachin Jain. It set out to help LGBTQ Indians find safe living spaces...

6. Calcutta holds India’s first ever ‘Gay Pride Parade’ in 1999.

7. In 1999, a discotheque named Soul Kitchen in Delhi hosted the first “gay night”, giving members of the community the chance to meet each other in a safe space where they can be themselves.

8. The Kashish Mumbai Queer Film Festival – which is today one of India’s largest LGBTQ film fests – was first launched in 2010.

9. 2014 became a defining moment for positive legislations for the transgender community. It started in April, with the National Legal Services Authority judgement to formally recognise trans people as the ‘third gender’ on official government-issued documents.

10. In February 2017, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare unveils a kit to promote good health and wellbeing, and – to everyone’s surprise – says that homosexuality is natural.

How Many Of These 93 Things Do You Know About India’s LGBTQ Movement? by Shambhavi Saxena, youthkiawaaz.com

July 13, 2017

#2018 decriminalization of all consensual sex under sec 377 of IPC #dear diary #long way to go #recent SC petition for legalisation of same sex marriage #getting literal chills listening to Dr. Meneka Guruswamy presenting her case #also 2022 ruling on expansion of definition of traditional family to atypical family

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india-lgbt-news · 2 years

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[WATCH] Lesbian, gay couples come out in the open to celebrate Pride Parade in Delhi University https://t.co/iO4mh37GbC

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lgbttourismindiaa · 4 months

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uljhasa · 1 year

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Play 1 : Still and still moving

The bulk of the Writer's Bloc plays have featured talent from Mumbai, the self-styled theatre capital of the country. Even so, a group from Delhi, The Tadpole Repertory, has quietly mounted a production of rare beauty, STILL AND STILL MOVING-written and directed by Neel Chaudhuri. Two men, Adil and Partho, are at the heart of this stolid but still affecting love story, which is marked by sensitively drawn portraits and a giddy sense of the conjoined cities that the men inhabit (Delhi and Gurgaon), and on which turf they negotiate their relationship. There is the figurative (and literal) distance that Adil and Partho have to travel before they can be with each other (or not), and also a generational chasm to overcome-the two men are more than two decades apart in age. Their tale plays out like a paean to love and longing, and loneliness, perhaps, but never to that numbing sense of loss that may have pervaded gay lives even just half a generation ago.

Gandharv Dewan plays the restless younger man, Adil, who belongs to the generation that has caught a new wave in these post-377 times, and moved from the seclusion of the closet to the open boulevards where a more brazen kind of expression isn't completely out of line, even if, for Adil, that only involves taking part in a pride parade, or writing an open letter 'coming out' to his deceased father. Oroon Das is Partho, the more circumspect older man, who doesn't quite let himself savor everything that comes his way in terms of love and companionship, and appears to bear the baggage carried by his generation, hiding away from the world in his Gurgaon home, lost in his literary endeavours, content in carrying out his love affair with a man clandestinely. Adil may seek out the semblance of a father-figure in Partho, but both men are clear that they are lovers first, and Mr Chaudhuri allows the relationship to develop with a forthrightness rarely seen on stage. Even behind a tall sheer curtain, the love-making is intimate and unabashed and sometimes almost guileless, as in the scene where Mr Das sends up Meena Kumari (always the self-sacrificing paragon) in Pakeezah, while pinning Mr Dewan down on the bed.

Partho had once been married to a woman because it was something his conditioning had deemed correct at that time. By introducing the character of his teenage son, the play moves into somewhat edgier territory. It's a measure of Mr Das' proficiency as an actor, that the eroticism that informs Partho's intimacy with Adil, doesn't quite spill over into the space he shares with his teenage son. Even with his lover, Partho is never quite the 'dirty old man'- he is tender and caring, needy but never exploitative, carnal but romantic. With his son, he's as concerned and protective, but the longing gaze is now a kind of benign adoration. It's a seamless transition and Mr Das captures the subtle shift very well, and refuses to give off that incriminating 'vibe' that some people, eager to demonise gay men, would half-expect in this kind of situation

Ultimately it is all pulled together by the two consummate central performances. For Mr Dewan, his character represents a more straightforward rites of passage, and he nails the subtle changes in Adil's personality with time. As he spends time with Partho, he undergoes a refinement of sorts, and where there was once a gawky gum-chewing teenager, there is now a self-assured man of the world. In turn Partho learns to be unguarded, and more untidy. His writing suffers (or maybe benefits) from a lack of form that makes his words seem less structured, more amorphous. When he first encounters Adil in a book-launch, and drops him to his train, refusing to board it himself, the play perhaps hints that this man's life would be a series of missed journeys. Fortunately, as it pans out, Partho has undertaken an expedition after all. He allows himself a chance to love someone. Mr Das plays his character with a stoic composure but he also makes poignantly real those moments where Partho seems to be almost coming apart because of the crushing love he feels for Adil. The denouement of this play is entirely its own, and not dictated by the shadow of oppression that gay men live under. In releasing its characters from the cloistered confines that would have once been their only fate, this play represents a remarkable achievement.

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queerism1969 · 2 years

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Are there any Indian lesbians?

Sexual orientation is a human experience so people from any race can be homosexual.

Dutee Chand: She’s an Indian professional sprinter. Her sports accolades are many but she was recently applauded for coming out publicly. She declared that she was in a same-sex relationship. She is now, India’s first and only openly gay athlete.

Vasu Primlani: Vasu Primlani is an environmentalist and India’s first openly gay comedian. She is also the recipient of the 2015 Nari Shakti Puruskar by the Government of India. Even though being gay puts her at odds with the law, she has never shirked away from her sexuality in her gigs.

Nina Chaubal: Chaubal grew up in Mumbai, India. At 13 years old, she discovered the word 'transgender' and realized it described her. She found a connection with other trans people through the internet.

Menaka Guruswamy: She is known for having played a significant role in many landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including the Section 377 case, the case of the bureaucratic reform, the Augusta Westland bribery case, the Salwa Judum case, and the Right to Education case. She is assisting the Supreme Court as Amicus Curie in the case pertaining to the alleged extrajudicial killings of 1,528 persons in Manipur.

Arundhati Katju: Arundhati Katju is a lawyer qualified to practice in India and New York. She has litigated many notable cases at the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court, including the Section 377 case, the case of a trans man being illegally confined by his parents, the Augusta Westland bribery case, the 2G spectrum corruption case, and the Jessica Lal murder case. Her law practice encompasses white-collar defense, general civil litigation, and public interest cases.