India's gays hold country's largest ever pride parade
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Men wore sparkling saris, women wore rainbow boas and hundreds of people chanted for gay rights in three Indian cities Sunday in the largest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country where homosexual acts are illegal.
Gay rights supporters took to the streets of Calcutta, Bangalore and New Delhi to call for an end to discrimination and push for acceptance in a society where intolerance is widespread.
"This is a national coming-out party," Alok Gupta, a lawyer from Mumbai, said as he stood among several hundred activists in New Delhi. "This is a simple thing: We are seeking the right to love."
While small groups have marched in the eastern city of Calcutta in recent years, Sunday's events were the first gay pride parades in Bangalore and New Delhi. Several hundred people turned out at each of the three events.
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