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WELCOME TO THE
GAY INDIA FORUMS
Part of the Marrakesh.net Queer webring.
ADULTS 18+ ONLY
TO BROWSE OUR GAY INDIA BOARDS ALPHABETICALLY BY CITY PLEASE GO STRAIGHT TO A-Z INDIA BOARDS
OR YOU MAY PREFER TO BROWSE BY STATE ALLOWING YOU TO QUICKLY LOCATE MESSAGES LEFT IN NEIGHBOURING CITIES. IF SO PLEASE CHOOSE FROM THE LIST BELOW.
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If your state is not listed please use the first option.
ANDHRA PRADESH including HYDERABAD
आंध्र प्रदेश
ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్
Four Message Boards
DELHI
दिल्ली
Three Message Boards
GUJARAT including
AHMEDABAD
गुजरात
ગુજરાત
Seven Message Boards
KARNATAKA including
BANGALORE
कर्नाटक
Four Message Boards
KERALA including
TRIVANDRUM
केरल
Four Message Boards
MADHYA PRADESH including
BHOPAL
मध्य प्रदेश
Seven Message Boards
MAHARASHTRA including
MUMBAI
महाराष्ट्र
Seven Message Boards
RAJASTHAN including
JAIPUR
राजस्थान
Seven Message Boards
TAMIL NADU including
CHENNAI
तमिल नाडु
தமிழ்நாடு
Five Message Boards
UTTAR PRADESH including
LUCKNOW
उत्तर प्रदेश
Eight Message Boards
WEST BENGAL including
KOLKATA
पश्चिम बंगाल
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ
Three Message Boards
We are still working to create pages for other Indian states. In the meantime for a choice of over 100 Indian cities listed alphabetically please - click here !
Questions - please email arabs@hotmail.co.uk
Urgent messages regarding abuse of the board please email arabs@hotmail.co.uk
YOUTUBE FAVOURITES
Bollywood Lesbian Scene 1.
14 December 2006 (00:18)
Russel Peters jokes about how being Gay is forbidden in his indian community.
23 July 2006 (02:13)
An Indian bride is not everything
she seems to be
25 May 2006 (01:52).
Two Indian girls kissing
Requires log in. (01.28)
Same-sex love in classical Indian literature Part 1.
Not as popular on youtube as parts 3 and 4.
30 August 2006 (09.01)
Same-sex love in classical Indian literature Part 2.
Not as popular on youtube as parts 3 and 4.
30 August 2006 (09.30)
Same-sex love in classical Indian literature Part 3.
30 August 2006 (09.58)
Same-sex love in classical Indian literature Part 4.
This when we checked it was the most popular of the series.
30 August 2006 (09.30)
Interviews with hijras (Indian transexuals/eunuchs)
Requires log in. (02.05)
Hijras singing and dancing at a wedding.
4 April 2007 (02:19)
Kiss me with naked Indians (music duo):
featuring near naked mud wrestling
Requires log in (03:06)
"Yours Emotionally" -
A trailer for a gay themed film.
"An intoxicating queer journey through India"
Requires login (02:17)
Guys on a train in India
24 October 2006 (00:19)
Sexy Indian guy stripping
15 May 2006 (02:04)
SONU
"sonu is one of the men I documented as part of a project for unaids on msm. He lives and works on the outskirts of Kolkata"
25 April 2007 (02:19)
Indian guy "showing my muscular body."
24 January 2007 (00:44)
Bollywood hunk from the film "Tezab"
11 November 2007 (02:35)
Fair & Lovely Menz Activ Ad
(01:00)
Sexy Punjabi dancing.
(04:44)
A trailer for the film "Gulabi Aaina",
"The Pink Mirror", a Hindi film about drag queens which was banned because of its' gay content.
(01:26)
A trailer for the film "Yours Emotionally",
hyped as ""An intoxicating queer journey through India" .
(02:17)
Miss Gay India 2007 (Transgender competition) is from Birmingham, England.
18 October 2007 (01:03)
The struggle for gay rights in India - a sort of slide show set to music.
18 October 2007 (03:59)
NEWS
See separate section below for blogs -
17 July 2008
Two gay Iranian refugees stranded in India.
IRQO.net
15 July 2008
Mumbai's gay pride will be held on 16 August. “This is pride as it relates to India’s freedom struggle,” explained one gay activist. “We may be free from the British, but we are not free from their outdated laws.”
qmediawatch.wordpress.com
15 July 2008
Lack of women in a Gujarati town leads to an increase in gay relationships.
Queerty.com
13 July 2008
Manvendra Singh Gohil, an 18 year old Gujarati gay prince, is sponsoring a local old people's home for the gay community.
NDTV.com
12 July 2008
Gay Gujarati prince tells talk show host Oprah he would marry her if he was straight to which she quips back - "Nothing like living in a palace." Millions of TV viewers tuned in to watch a riveting interview.
Times of India
12 July 2008
Mumbai police officer arrested for allegedly extorting money from a gay man
MumbaiMirror.com
12 July 2008
India's Council of Medical Research (ICMR)rules that gay people should be allowed to be parents
Times of India
9 July 2008
Coming out has become easier for gays in Bollywood and the Indain theatre according to this article in Express India
ExpressIndia.com
8 July 2008
The state of Bihar announces a job opportunities programme for local transexuals or Hijras. The article notes that "Because discrimination prevents them from taking ordinary jobs, they earn money through prostitution or begging, and sometimes by extorting funds by threatening to lift their saris and expose their mutilated genitals."
TheGlobeandMail.com
2 July 2008
India's Anglican Churches totally opposed to gay marriages and priests.
HindustanTimes.com
2 July 2008
India's gay rights movement comes out of the closet
San Francisco Chronicle
30 June 2008
Newsweek article on India's uneasy attitude to the first large scale gay pride marches
Newsweek
30 June 2008
Delhi witnesses India's largest ever gay pride march
BBC News
30 June 2008
The filmmaker ,Deepa Mehta, whose film "Fire" about two Indian lesbians encountered so much opposition 12 years ago, was delighted to hear of the relative success of Delhi's first gay parade.
sify.com
2 April 2008
Actor Harsh Chhaya talks about how he relished taking on the challenge of playing a gay man in the new Bollywood film "Fashion."
IndiaENews.com
27 March 2008
Gay activists in Pune find politicians unwilling to grasp the nettle of pro-gay law reform
The Times of India
1 April 2007
Foreign tourist coerced into signing gay sex confession in Goan police jail
ohmynews.com
FOR MORE GAY INDIA NEWS REPORTS PLEASE CLICK HERE.
BLOGS AND OTHER ARTICLES
14 July 2008
Swedish blogger asks his readers to sign up to a petition against India's Section 377 of the penal code which bans homosexuality
Aqurette.com
8 July 2008
India gay blogger on why she enjoys meeting hijras. Apparently people in Delhi often say that ""seeing a hijra, on way to work is a very auspicious sign".
mercurianthoughts.blogspot.com
8 July 2008
Blogger on the false impression of modernity given by India's first large scale gay pride.
livemintexpert-smitrakalita.blogspot.com
31 March 2008
Blogger wonders why in India, where homosexuality is still illegal, it is so easy for two men to hold hands
chiieew.blogspot.com
26 March 2008
Blogger writes about Indian hijras and the taboo topic of homosexuality in India
koomorinokisaki.livejournal.com
13 March 2008
Gay Indian blogger remembers embarrassing moments with his mother and considers the issue of coming out
samsbloginess.blogspot.com
3 March 2008
Blogger asks for your opinions on gay rights in India
ergordhan.rediffiland.com
August 2007
India's anti-gay discrimination and its' health consequences
Revista de Saúde Pública
FORUM DISCUSSIONS ON OTHER WEBSITES
March 2008 onwards
Is there such a thing as a "gay life" in India ?
Beware of possible offensive remarks/comments.
Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree
February 2008 onwards
Any gay or gay friendly bars in Kerala ?
Beware of possible offensive remarks/comments.
Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree
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