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Pride Month 2021: Gay men and lesbians are what makes pop culture âpopâ, says Ashok Row Kavi
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Heâs one of the pioneers of the LGBTQ movement in India, leading on the fight from front at a time when the community was barely there, marginalised, stigmatised and even considered illegal. And even now, as 70+year-old youngster,
Ashok Row Kavi leads from the front everywhere, taking on millennial tools like Instagram and Clubhouse with gusto and educating the world about the LGQBT community and a host of other issues he is actively involved in.
We caught up with the Grand Maa (in Row Kaviâs words) of the LGBTQ movement in India, in a no-holds barred, freewheeling chat with Ashok Row Kavi. Read on for the edited enlightening and entertaining excerpts:
377: The British colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia
By Tessa Wong
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image captionBefore India legalised homosexual sex in 2018, at least one billion people in Asia lived with some form of anti-LGBTQ legislation
For much of the past two centuries, it was illegal to be gay in a vast swathe of the world - thanks to colonial Britain.
Till today, colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality continue to exist in former British territories including parts of Africa and Oceania.
But it is in Asia where they have had a significantly widespread impact. This is the region where, before India legalised homosexual sex in 2018, at least one billion people lived with anti-LGBTQ legislation.
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