LGBT Rights
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Guardian of love – Gaver Chhachhia
Gaver Chhachhia is the very first recipient of the GayBombay Rajshri Khote Guardian of Love Award! This award was introduced by Sachin Jain & Darpan Mehta. It was presented to her by Balachandran Ramiah, at the GayBombay Talent Show, during the Awards Section. It was held on September 21, 2025 at Mukkti Cultural Club, Andheri Continue reading
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GayBombay Congratulates the LGBTQ Community
Congratulations!! The Honourable Supreme Court of India today (6th September, 2018) defanged section 377 of the Indian penal code that criminalised homosexuality. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud, A M Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra, and Rohinton Fali Nariman, in separate but concurring judgments, ruled that India’s LGBTQ community has Continue reading
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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
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