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With much expatriate population in the city, Bangalore is slightly more relaxed. Multinational corporations including Google, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, Cisco, Dell, Micro Focus International, General Electric and Microsoft strive to create LGBT-friendly workplaces. Companies come together to share best practices for fostering a ...
Sangama is an LGBT rights group based in Bangalore, India.When it began in 1999, [1] Sangama acted as a documentation center but it has since grown to become an LGBT rights and HIV prevention NGO [2] that mobilizes against sexual harassment and discrimination and conducts HIV prevention seminars and programmes.
Bangalore Gay Pride Parade (2009) at Sir Puttannachetty Town Hall The second Bengaluru Pride was held on 28 June and was preceded by a week long Karnataka Queer Habba '09. [ 6 ] The Karnataka Queer Habba '09 had events like talks, seminars, film shows etc. [ 7 ] Over 600 people walked the march from National College, Basavanagudi to ...
Sangama is an NGO that is based in and operates in Bangalore, Karnataka (a southern state of India). [69] Founded by Manohar, who is openly bisexual and eventually married a hijra who worked at Sangama, [ 69 ] the organization has been funded in part by funds channeled to address the spread of HIV/AIDS. [ 69 ]
According to Ipsos' online LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey, 59% of the surveyed Indians support LGBTQ people being open about their sexual orientation or gender identity with everyone, 39% support LGBTQ people displaying affection in public (e.g., kissing or holding hands), 56% support openly lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes in sports teams ...
The Bangalore Queer Film Festival is an annual LGBT event that has been held in Bangalore, India since the year 2008. The event carefully selects queer films from all over the world and brings them to an ever-growing Bangalore audience. [1]
Chandigarh held its first LGBT pride parade on 15 March 2013 and it has been held annually ever since. [134] The first LGBT pride parade in Gujarat state was held at Surat on 6 October 2013. [135] Rajasthan witnessed its first pride event on 1 March 2015, when a pride walk was held in Jaipur. [136] Awadh witnessed the first Awadh Pride parade ...
In 2008, the five Indian cities Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Indore and Pondicherry celebrated gay pride parades with 2000 people from nationwide. Also in 2008, Zoltan Parag, a competitor at the Mr. Gay International contest, said that he was apprehensive about returning to India stating "Indian media has exposed me so much that now when I call ...