Notes

Topics for pride month :

Famous personalities in LGBTQ community (India) :
- Gauri Sawant
- Pooja Sharma
- Vikram Seth
- Manvendra Singh Gohil
- Sonal Giani
- Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
- Anjali Ameer
- onir

Latest movies on LGBTQ
- Shubh Mangal Zyada Savadhan
- The Half of It
- Love Simon
- The boys in the band

5 LGBT friendly cities
Panji
Bengaluru
Ladakh
Mumbai
Kolkata

- 7 must visit destination in India to celebrate pride month

- Badhai do was screened at south Asias biggest LGBTQ festival Kashish
https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/rajkummar-rao-bhumi-pednekar-starrer-badhaai-celebrated-prestigious-mumbai-international-queer-film-festival-kashish/

- Pizza Hut's LGBT
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pizza-hut-drag-kids-book-pride-month-boycott-republican-vs-democrats-conservatives-lgbt-1958522-2022-06-05

- Menka Guruswamy & Arundhati Kalju (Lawyer)
https://www.businessinsider.in/indian-lawyers-who-fought-the-countrys-battle-for-lgbt-rights-among-times-100-most-influential-people-in-the-world/articleshow/68934831.cms

- The Pride Flag has its own interesting history
New York City Lights Up In Support Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Gay Pride March
New York City Lights Up In Support Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Gay Pride March / Alexi Rosenfeld/GettyImages
The rainbow flag, now a ubiquitous symbol of the LGBTQ community, first appeared in the 1970s. Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco city supervisor, tasked artist/activist Gilbert Baker with creating a symbol for the gay community to use in place of the pink triangle, which Nazi Germany forced gay men to wear in concentration camps. Baker created the first Pride flag in 1978, dyeing the fabrics himself. The transgender Pride flag similarly arose from a challenge, as its creator, Monica Helms, told Atlanta Magazine in 2020. The creator of the bisexual pride flag, Mike Page, challenged Helms to create a flag for the transgender community. “One day, I woke up with the idea for the colors—the traditional color, light blue, for boys, pink for girls, and a single white stripe for those who are transitioning, gender neutral, or intersex,” she said. The flag was first flown at Phoenix Pride in 2000. In 2014, Helms’s original flag was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

- Nazz Joshi - 1st trans in India

- Brenda Howard, a bisexual woman, is considered the “Mother of Pride.”
While the first Pride parade may have been in Chicago, the mantle of “Mother of Pride” belongs to a lifelong New Yorker: Brenda Howard. A Bronx-born bisexual woman, Howard organized the Christopher Street Liberation Day March and is hailed as one of the 20th century's leading voices in bisexual rights and equality. Howard's activism spanned decades and led to her multiple arrests for civil disobedience—including while demonstrating for women’s health and the rights of those living with HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and protesting against the firing of a lesbian in Georgia in the 1990s. Howard passed away in 2003.

- Ashok Row Kavi is the first man to publicly come out as gay in India way back in 1984, and in the over 30 years since, his life has been a rollercoaster of controversy that eventually brought him to the doorstep of the Supreme Court in 2018.

- How did Lgbtq started in India?
The LGBTQ+ history from Ancient India...

First of all, yes, homosexuality did exist in Ancient India. Therefore it has always been a part of India's history. For instance it was represented in several Hindu temples where we could see images of same-sex people embracing or showing their genitals to one another