[gay_bombay] Bombay Dost Sunday High, Sept. 12: 'Queering Bollywood', film screening
Sunday High: September 12, 2004 Film screening: Queering Bollywood Queering Bollywood is a series of seriously funny interpretations of Hindi cinema. Rather than critique, this exercise is meant to be creative. Its serious about subversive, queer readings of popular Hindi cinema which many consider frivolous. Its frivolous about the deadly serious nature of ownership of cinema, freely copying and copying from various sources. Duration about 30 minutes. We hope to make another interesting presentation about Queer Bollywood after this screening. Date: Sunday, September 12, 2004 Time: 5 p.m. Venue: The Humsafar Trust's Drop-in Centre, 1st floor, Vakola Municipal Market Building, Near Raheja Point and Vakola Masjid, Santacruz (East), Mumbai. Getting there: Its approximately minimum fare by autorickshaw from Santacruz East (Western Railways). You could also take routes 311 or 313. The same routes also operate from Kurla West (Central Railways). All are welcome! Confidentiality assured. Tea will be served. Contributions are appreciated. Space courtesy: The Humsafar Trust. Nitin Karani Ernest Noronha Bombay Dost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == NEW CLASSIFIEDS SECTION SEEKING FRIENDS? VISIT www.gaybombay.info click on classified section and type your message in the post section once the link opens What's hot? What's not? Where are the LGBT parties being held and when? Click here!! http://calendar.yahoo.com/YYY,04497/srt,0/gaybombaygroup/?v=42POS= Post:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Homepage:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay Unsubscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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[gay_bombay] Bombay Dost - Sunday High- August 22nd, 2004.
LIFE EVENTS Gay = Happy? Well, not always, of course. Daily life is full of problems for heteros and queer people alike. However, who can dispute the fact that we have a big set of unique problems to deal with? Boyfriends/ girlfriends problems that are more complex than what a marriage counselor can deal with perhaps; the daily scare of being outed; dealing with ignorance, idiotic friends and their phobic jokes; the whole, damn marriage issue and the family pressure to have children... if leading ones life on this planet is not enough to handle, being forces to lead two livespublic and very private ALL THE TIME! Here's a session dedicated to ventilating all your angst, all the frustration you cannot express to any one except your queer friends. It's not just a steam letting session though. We hope to let the common problems so as to aid professional counsellors in better serving LGBT people. So, please be there on Sunday, August 22nd, 2004 at 5.00pm. Venue: The Humsafar Trust Drop in center, 10 minutes by auto rickshaw from Santacruz station; BEST buses every 10-15 from the station. Also BEST buses and rickshaw operate from Kurla station west towards Santacruz east. For further assistance, Please call 26673800/ 26650547 All are welcome. Space courtesy the Humsafar Trust. Ernest/ Nitin Bombay Dost. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/WfTolB/TM ~- Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == NEW CLASSIFIEDS SECTION SEEKING FRIENDS? VISIT www.gaybombay.info click on classified section and type your message in the post section once the link opens What's hot? What's not? Where are the LGBT parties being held and when? Click here!! http://calendar.yahoo.com/YYY,04497/srt,0/gaybombaygroup/?v=42POS= 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/
[gay_bombay] Bombay Dost - GayBombay meeting on entrapment
Reminding everyone about this event. Please do try and be there, and send this mail around and get people to come. We are particularly looking for people who have suffered from these attacks, or have friends who have suffered them and whose stories they know. Vikram Bombay Dost - GayBombay meeting on entrapment Date: Sunday, July 11, 2004 Time: 5 p.m. Venue: The Humsafar Trust's Drop-in Centre, 1st floor, Vakola Municipal Market Building, Near Vakola Masjid, Santacruz (East), Mumbai. Closest stations: Santacruz (Western Railways) and Kurla (Central Railways). All are welcome! Confidentiality assured. Tea will be served. Contributions are welcome but not demanded. Space courtesy The Humsafar Trust. This event is by Bombay Dost in assciation with GayBombay Nitin Karani What the meet is about (and what its not)? : To discuss the plague of blackmailers and hustlers who are preying on the queer community. Its specifically looking at people who try to use people's sexuality as a means of extortion. This meeting is NOT about the rights and wrongs of sex for pay. We're only if the hustler uses the transaction or just cruising in general as a means of picking up targets for mugging or blackmail. What are the cases we're talking about? : The gang that hangs around Churchgate station trying to pick up guys they can mug in the dark alleys of C D roads. The gang that hangs around the walls, looking for foreign gay men who they can dupe into taking them back to their rooms where they will pretend to be policemen and try and extort as much as they can from the foreigners. The guy who both mugged a gay man, and then followed him home and blackmailed him for three years ultimately taking more than one lakh rupees. The gang who beat up young gay men at Charni Road, Andheri, Bandra, Khar and so many other places, stealing their posessions and traumatising them for life. The gang that's now moved onto the Net, coming up with an efficient way of trapping more young and closeted gay guys. The gang who... but you can probably fill your own stories when you come. Why now? : This problem has existed for years and, its been pointed out, there are periodic outbursts of indignation from the community, and then we all subside into apathy again. And I don't think we should underestimate the problem - its not easy seeing what we can do in such circumstances, so we may very well end up nowhere again. But I don't think we've ever had an open meeting where we try to involve as many people as possible, both from within the community and people outside it, but who might be able to help, and its worth trying. Also, the problem seems to be on an upswing, perhaps as more blackmailers realise the potential it offers. As homosexuality becomes more visible, and more queer people start interacting with each other, there will also be people who want to take advantage of this. From the stories we are hearing, its evidently very good business, so we can expect to see more people getting in on it. There also seems increasing evidence that members of the police might play a part. Most recently its become clear that blackmailers have started using the Internet. In the last week alone we have heard of two cases with the same modus operandi - contacts made on chat, meetings fixed up to exchange porn VCDs, then when the exchange is happening (near the Dadar station) a so-called plain clothes policeman comes and grabs both guys and proceeds to extract as much as possible from the victim (nothing happens to the other guy who is obviously the decoy). Some information is available about the people involved in this and hopefully some of the guys affected by this scam will come to the meetings, so we will have an immediate opportunity to decide if anything can be done. At the very least, we can figure out how to publicise cases like this to prevent other people being trapped. Why bother? : Some people argue that these attacks mostly target closetted gay men, and that they succeed simply because these men are too closetted to fight back. So the solution is to come out, and anyone who doesn't deserves what they get. The solution is probably the right one, but it would be callous to write off everyone who can't take it. Many of the people being targetted are young and taking their first steps into the gay world. When this happens to them, it scares them so badly that they may never come out, even if they might have wanted to. The psychological damage can be severe. These attacks are perhaps the most direct form of homophobia we encounter and in that alone they are worth taking up. There's also one other point. We are often asked by well-meaning people, why we need to protest for gay rights. They ask, why not just be quiet and lead your lives in private? These blackmailing attacks seem to me the best response why. The people these attacks have happened to are often the very ones really
[gay_bombay] Bombay police launch HIV scheme
Bombay police launch HIV scheme Campaigning for the use of condoms in Bombay - the 'Aids capital' of India Police in India's western city of Bombay (Mumbai) have announced a no discrimination policy against employees who have tested HIV- positive. The initiative is the first by a government agency in the country. It comes in the wake of an increase in incidents of discrimination against HIV-positive policemen in the 40,000 strong police force. Discrimination against Aids patients is common in India, with the World Bank accusing it of ignoring the problem. 'High risk group' The BBC's Zubair Ahmed in Bombay says that the number of HIV- positive case within the 40,000-strong police force is quite high. It is thought that just under one percent of the adult Indian population is HIV-positive Ten percent of 150 policemen tested recently were HIV- positive. In other tests earlier this year, more than 450 men in the force were tested positive. The fact that the police force is now considered to be a high risk group has given rise to discrimination against HIV-positive policemen by their own colleagues and by the force authorities. But now, a senior Bombay police official, Prem Kishan Jain, says the force has decided to rehabilitate those who have tested positive. He said there would be no discrimination against HIV-positive people who wanted to apply for jobs in the force. 'Aids capital' Correspondents say the initiative has been launched partly to ease the fears and rehabilitate those affected, and partly to encourage other officers who may be infected to come forward and be tested. Mr Jain said he had sanctioned an Aids awareness programme in all police stations in Bombay, with a view to eliminating discrimination and misinformation about HIV-positive cases. Discrimination against people who are HIV is high in the city, which has the reputation of being the Aids capital of India. Meanwhile, the World Bank has accused India and some other South Asian countries of neglecting Aids-related problems. It said these countries were not serious enough in tacking the disease. The latest initiative follows a move in January by legal experts who recommended outlawing discrimination against HIV-positive private sector workers. In the same month, Aids activists hailed a court ruling which means government jobs cannot be denied to HIV-positive people because of their disease alone. The recent moves are being seen as vital towards the rehabilitation and social acceptance of India's HIV-positive population. India's Health Ministry estimates that 4.58 million people - or roughly 0.8% of the adult population - are HIV-positive. Health Minister Sushma Swaraj recently told the BBC India will avoid an Aids epidemic by educating people about the disease, improving medical care and encouraging sexual abstinence. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/WfTolB/TM ~- Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info == NEW CLASSIFIEDS SECTION SEEKING FRIENDS? VISIT www.gaybombay.info click on classified section and type your message in the post section once the link opens What's hot? What's not? Where are the LGBT parties being held and when? Click here!! http://calendar.yahoo.com/YYY,04497/srt,0/gaybombaygroup/?v=42POS= 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/
