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Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival (KRPF) is a Kolkata based open collective of individuals, networks and organizations that support LGBT rights. The collective organizes the annual Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk , which has become the longest-running event of its kind in South Asia .
Kolkata's pride march 1999 was the first ever such march in India, organised on 2 July 1999. [3] [4] [5] The walk was called The Friendship Walk. [3]The march began with hardly fifteen participants and some of these participants came from other cities in India, including Mumbai and Bangalore.
The following is a calendar of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) events. This list includes gay pride parades as well as events ranging from sporting events to film festivals, including celebrations such as Christopher Street Day.
Sappho for Equality is an organization based in Kolkata, India, working for the rights of lesbians, bisexual women, and trans men in Eastern India. [ 1 ] It focuses on community empowerment and support, engagement with civil society and other organizations, and advocacy and lobbying.
Club Cobra has been serving drinks, DJ sets and live performances to the local LGBTQ+ community for more than a decade. Its sister establishment, Club Chico in Montebello, is coming up on its 25th ...
STORY: Wearing rainbow masks and waving flags, participants browsed some 72 booths set up by human rights groups, university LGBT clubs, embassies, religious and progressive organizations, taking ...
National parades are generally further supported by nationwide LGBT associations and media organizations. Certain statistics may include celebrations or festivals that may be exclusive of the parade. They are typically held in late June, in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Lower Manhattan .
Before a 27-year-old California man murdered a mother-of-nine over a Pride flag, he had been spewing anti-LGBT content on social media for some time. Rachel Sharp reports