Gay community asserts identity with pink products
New Delhi: Mugs and T-shirts with witty one liners like "Jalebii High", "Pink Sheep of the Family", "Haan Hoo! Toh?" (Yes I am! So?) are catching up among the capital's gay community that held the third edition of its 'Gay Pride Parade on Sunday.
Image: LGBT members participate in a gay pride parade in New Delhi on Sunday, November 29, 2010.
India's first legal gay pride parade marches through Delhi
Updated November 29, 2010 11:20:10
Gay communities in the West were badly affected in the 1980s, when AIDS first hit the headlines at the beginning of the decade.
Indeed, the disease was then closely linked to homosexuality. That attitude was exploited by many conservative and religious groups as well as anti-gay individuals. More than 20 years later that stigma has led many countries to make gay sex illegal. India only recently legalised homosexuality after a nine year battle in the high court. And this weekend the country's gay community took to the streets of New Delhi to celebrate. Thousands of people danced, sang and cheered through the city in India's first gay pride parade since gay sex was made legal earlier this year.
Presenter: Richard Lindell
Speakers: India's gay pride marchers
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