g_b GAY FILM FESTIVAL : DISCUSSIONS, DEBATES WERE HELD
GAY FILM FESTIVAL : DISCUSSIONS, DEBATES WERE HELD Wide response for gays Express News Service Pune, December 4: THE Samabhavana Society working with people of alternate sexual preferences showcased the same-sex-love culture existing in India via films, posters, photo exhibitions, discussions and debates. The event titled Astitva 2005 was held on Saturday and Sunday at Udyan Prasad Karyalay. ``The gay community faces stigma. Besides, having low acceptability they are regarded as being impotent,'' says Jasmir Thakur, member of the Samabhavana Society. The posters created by Rudra K M, information, education and communication officer with Sambhabhana society, were aimed at promoting a more tolerant attitude and stopping violence against AIDS-affected individuals apart from promulgating safe sex. Three short films on homosexuality, produced by Samabhavana Society and HIVOS, a Holland-based agency, and directed by Sachin Kundalkar were shown at the festival. The first one, Dhruv and I deals with emotions of homosexuals while The Bath is based on male sex workers and their emotional issues. The third film, Positive Portrait is a silent musical spot of five minutes dealing with the problems of an HIV positive man. The posters displayed at Udyan Prasad Karyalay contain illustrations on HIV, safe sex, stigmas attached with the homosexuals and discrimination against the gay community. The posters on condoms reflected ingenuous ideas like a poster showing a condom posed as a gladiator and another one depicting a mirchi in a condom with a catchline- ``Condom mirchi, its hot.'' Discussions were also held to remove misconceptions generally associated with the gay community. ``People must be sensitised towards homosexuals. They must realise that gay persons are inormal human beings differing only in their emotional and physical needs,'' says Thakur. The festival saw a good response particularly from women and the city's gay community. Several elderly men and women also participated in the discussions. The festival will move to Delhi, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Manipur to create awareness. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. http://us.click.yahoo.com/cRr2eB/lbOLAA/E2hLAA/WfTolB/TM ~-> Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == This message was posted to the gay_bombay Yahoo! Group. Responses to messages (by clicking "Reply") will also be posted on the eGroup and sent to all members. If you'd like to respond privately to the author of any message then please compose and send a new email message to the author's email address. Post:- gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Classifieds for personal advertisements are back on www.gaybombay.info site. Please exercise restraint in the language of your personal advertisement. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
g_b New Year's Eve in NYC: Desilicious' Salaam Namaste 2006
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g_b thanx buddy ridgeet
hey roy same was with me every wher i culd see him that smiling face eyez looking deep in my eyez holding my hand and saing nothing just holdig me and we both lisning each other through hot breth and hrt bting and saing somthing that only our hrt culd undersatnad not even both of us and th one day hert stop speking he left me dont know where i was like bird without wingz just hooping to fly but culdnt but thn u know time dont wait 4 any one not even for itself buddy now i rember him and his thought makz me fresh and again i satart my new life with all the enthoz and loodzz of confidnz and will power thanx for making me explor my past again vikram /26/mumbai chat id mascot_003ridgeet roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:4 o' clock in the morning - My mind is filled with a thousand thoughts of you; And how you left without a warning, But looking back I am sure you are trying to ... But if I could, I know I would ... Girl, I am sorry now; You're the last thing on my mind Are you running away from memories? Trying to avoid pain? Welcome to our world then ... So many times I have met men on the rebound, men who are trying to get over heartbreaks... men who are trying to forgot a boyfriend, or even a girlfriend... I belong to the avoidance school of thought... I dont give myself a chance to feel sad over a heartache. I keep myself busy, surround myself with enough work and people so that I dont even get a chance to think of him. Even if a moment of weakness comes by, I try to think of something else... Probably it has developed over time, with experience... but today when I agreed to a friend who apparently is following the same process, I somehow had this thought... for how long can one avoid? I remember walking 2 km on a cold drizzling night, after realizing that the one person whom I had loved, was never going to be mine. And i remembered the guy whom I met while on the rebound. I remember all the things I had done for the next 4 months, never giving me an opportunity to face him again... And then one day, all of a sudden... I thought I saw him in the crowd... and everything else stopped around me ... And then started to move again. I realised I was mistaken. And forgot the whole thing until now... As I sat on the park bench that night, I promised that I would never give myself another opportunity to fall in love with the wrong person. Did I falter... yes ... once ... and then repeated the same words again... and then again ... and again repeated it again ... and this time it seemed to get easier ... As I walked past the park bench yesterday, I tried to recall that day. Everything has changed since then. And so have I... Time and experience heals everything... like it has healed the broken heart of an early 20 something several times in the last 24 years ... (dedicated to all those broken hearts who had the courage to share their pain with a complete stranger like me ...) Rij Yahoo! Personals Skip the bars and set-ups and start using Yahoo! Personals for free Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == This message was posted to the gay_bombay Yahoo! Group. Responses to messages (by clicking "Reply") will also be posted on the eGroup and sent to all members. If you'd like to respond privately to the author of any message then please compose and send a new email message to the author's email address. Post:- gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Classifieds for personal advertisements are back on www.gaybombay.info site. Please exercise restraint in the language of your personal advertisement. SPONSORED LINKS Bombay india Cause and effect essay Causes of depression Lgbt YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "gay_bombay" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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Re: g_b Is the West finally suffering?
I suggest that this contribution by from the British Health Protection agency is load of hogwash. I cannot believe it is posted with the intent to encourage gays to celebrate and accept their sexuality, but rather to prick us again with the same 'shame stick' that has been stuck into our souls for the last 2000 years. If that is its intent, let me encourage you all to defy its advice. This spurious piece of nonsense is taken out of context from a paper dealing in great depth with sexual activity in the British Isles. It is extremely important that governments of the world correctly assess the sexual activities of their peoples. This way they can forecast health care needs and birth rates. The Indian government makes a pigs meal of this assessment regularly. I cannot help but think that this governing care is not the major concern that drives 'priyom dey' to post thisor maybe i just have a suspicious mind. The fabricated view point that this truncated message gives is that the British government is preaching to its populous that they should abstain from sex before marriage. They are not, and they do not. The only governments who do that are self righteous entities like the UAE, Iran etc. In western countries the stigma of illicit sexual congress has gradually receeded under unlightened laws, and therefore the health ramifications of sexual activity are now able to be truely monitered. In countries like India and Pakistan, where sexuality is a socially tainted activity, true health assessment is impossible because of the consequences of telling the truth. You don't admit to rape. You don't admit to sodomy. You don't admit to incest. You don't admit to pedophilia. The result is rampant sexual abuse, misogynic law making, and creeping, unmonitered, untreated sexual plagues. Apart from this is the social stigma. I have a friend In Rawalpindi who has lost all through having loved a man for 12 years, then finally given into his desires and lain with him. He has lost business, money, acceptance, friendsand now the earthquake has finished off what his 'friend' did not. I denounce anyone who tries to supplant free and accepted sexuality with the chains of 'abstainence'. If abstainence means acceptance, then it also means every Indian should wear white make up for acceptance into the Oxford Law school and change his/her name to its anglicized form. Just another form of prejudice, clothed in sweet smelling clothing. angry John (Sydney Australia) priyom dey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UK urges young people to avoid sexBy Sarah Boseley, Dec 2004London: Young people should be encouraged to considerabstaining from sexoutside marriage as one of the options for protectingthemselves againstthe epidemic of sexually transmitted infectionssweeping the UK, theBritish Health Protection Agency (HPA) suggestedyesterday.Figures from the HPA, released in its annual reportyesterday, show thatteenagers and young people are disproportionatelyaffected by infectionssuch as chlamydia, which can make women infertile, andgonorrhoea. Atelevision advertising campaign to try to change thesexual (and itsrelated social) behaviour of young people will belaunched in the spring,the UK government said yesterday. The pounds Sterling50m campaign will beas big as that of the 1980s which alerted people tothe dangers of Aidswith graphic images of tombstones and icebergs.It comes at a time when there is concern about theignorance andcarelessness of teenagers and young adults towards sexand an alarmingrise of sex outside marriage. Chlamydia, gonorrhoeaand genital warts areall commonest in women aged 16-21 and men aged 20-26,according to the HPAreport. __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage Do you Yahoo!? Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == This message was posted to the gay_bombay Yahoo! Group. Responses to messages (by clicking "Reply") will also be posted on the eGroup and sent to all members. If you'd like to respond privately to the author of any message then please compose and send a new email message to the author's email address. Post:- gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Classifieds for personal advertisements are back on www.gaybombay.info site. Please exercise restraint in the language of your personal advertisement. SPONSORED LINKS Bombay india Cause and effect essay
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g_b friends/mates wanted for December 6
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g_b Mumbai Citys homosexual community will continue fighting for Section 377
Government response doesn't surprise them City's homosexual community will continue fighting for Section 377 to be repealed. http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=159769 Ameta Bal & Monica Mercer Mumbai, December 2: THE most popular face of the gay community in both TV and Bollywood is rather unaffected by the long standing legal battle around Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). ``It doesn't matter what they (law) keep on saying. Most people are coming out into the open about their sexual orientation. Many are even experimenting with their sexuality,'' says Bobby Darling. The general response to the recent affidavit from the Union Home Ministrywhich says India does not favour the deletion of the said offence from the statute bookseems to be unsurprised acceptance. ``This is the same old story,'' says prominent gay-rights activist Dr Ashok Row Kavi, director of Humsafar Trust. But the government's repeat act has failed to squash spirits. Gautam Bhan, the Delhi-based editor of the Anthology of Queer Writing feels that despite the fact that the wording of the UPA's response almost echoes the words of the NDA, the present government's stance is more dispassionate and legalistic. ``It could have been much worse. With the previous government, the gay community didn't even exist,'' he says. ``And considering the average length of court cases in the country, we haven't been fighting for very long.'' While a petition was filed to repeal Section 377 by various members of Mumbai's homosexual communities at a Pride March on August 15 this year, nobody's clear about how many individual appeals have been made. ``I think at least eight or nine times,'' offers Kavi. According to Naz Foundation, which was recently in the news for challenging the validity of Section 377 of IPC, a petition to repeal has been filed twice. ``The government is in denial,'' says Rahul Singh, programme director, NAZ, MSM (men who have sex with men programme). Film-maker Onir, who directed My Brother Nikhilthe film tackled AIDS and homosexualityseconds NAZ's viewpoint. ``The law is so regressive and totally against democracy,'' says Onir, ``We forget that it (gay sex) has even been a part of our culture. There's evidence in Indian art, sculpture. Next, they'll say sex is a western concept so ban it.'' High-profile make-up artist Sylvie believes that by not legalising homosexuality, the government is promoting promiscuity and an unhealthy lifestyle. ``So many people commit suicides because of the homophobia that exists in our society. If only the government removed its blinders, it would be a step towards helping the rest of the people understand too,'' he says. The petition will be sent to the Supreme Court next year, according to the Lawyers Collective, Mumbai. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Give at-risk students the materials they need to succeed at DonorsChoose.org! http://us.click.yahoo.com/wlSUMA/LpQLAA/E2hLAA/WfTolB/TM ~-> Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == This message was posted to the gay_bombay Yahoo! Group. Responses to messages (by clicking "Reply") will also be posted on the eGroup and sent to all members. If you'd like to respond privately to the author of any message then please compose and send a new email message to the author's email address. Post:- gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Classifieds for personal advertisements are back on www.gaybombay.info site. Please exercise restraint in the language of your personal advertisement. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
