Reports

January 17, 2016

REPORT: THE 15th GAYBOMBAY PARENTS AND RELATIVES MEET (A MUMBAI PRIDE 2016 EVENT)

Venue: Rotary Club of Bombay West, Juhu Tara Road, Mumbai Date & Time: Sunday, January 17, 2016, 5-9 p.m. with a 30 minute break for snacks at 7 p.m. Participants: Parents 20 (Mothers 12, Fathers 4, Aunts 2, Siblings 2) This report is in the form of “as-is” shared narratives, clubbed around dominant themes. It… Continue reading

GB Parents/Siblings Meets, Reports

Acceptance, Bisexual, Coming Out, Family, Gay, Lesbian, Mumbai, Network, Parents, Parents and Relatives Meet, Parents of LGBTIQs, Support, Transgender
December 16, 2015

GayBombay Special Sunday Meet: “High Fun High Risk”: Substance Abuse (12/2015)

By Sachin Jain Date & Time: December 13, 2015, 5:30-8pm Venue: The Hive, Chuim Village, Khar (West), Mumbai 400052 Participants: 43 Facilitator: Deepak Kashyap Introduction We are not aware of statistics in the LGBT community in India on drug usage. In the gay community users seem to be a minority, but within that minority, usage… Continue reading

GB Meets on Safer Sex, Meet, Reports

Addiction, Counselling, Dependency, Drugs, Gay, Health, HIV, LGBTIQ, Resources, Substance Abuse
September 13, 2015

Gay Bombay Special Sunday Meet: “Privacy & The Law” an A-Z: Report (09/2015)

– Sachin Jain Introduction: People are becoming open online when technology, from WhatsApp to Grindr, collides with real world. Extortion cases and breach of privacy are hot topics now. Even the Supreme Court has been asked to define privacy by government. Vijay Hiremath, an independent human rights lawyer practising in Mumbai, has been dealing with… Continue reading

Meet, Reports

Blackmail, Constitutional Rights, Equality, Extortion, Gay Bombay, Harassment, Indian Penal Code, Justice, Laws, LGBT Rights, Obscenity, Parties, Police, Privacy, Public Nuisance, Section 377, Sex, Sunday Meet, Violence