What a day 17th August 2009 turned out to be! The day before, queer-identified and queer-supporting Mumbaikars were out in the streets celebrating their queer azaadi. On the 17th news broke of the fashion designer Manish Malhotra designing the costumes for a short film for free! Of course, this was no ordinary short film. It was the Bengali film-maker Onir's latest venture called Omar. The film centres on the way Rahul Bose's character - a gay man - is blackmailed by a rent boy (played by Arjun Mathur) in connivance with a cop (played by Abhimanyu Singh). The pictures of the three actors appear in this post in the order in which I have mentioned them. On the 17th, shooting began on a Bengali film named Arekti Premer Golpo (Another Love Story). This feature film stars the campier-than-a-row-of-tents real-life film-maker Rituporno Ghosh as a gay film-maker (that must be a difficult character for him to get into!) in love with a bisexual married man. On that very same day the Supreme Court refused again - for a second time - to stay the 2nd July Delhi High Court order reading down Section 377, resisting considerable provocation from two new petitions against the Section 377 verdict. This brought the number of homophobic petitions to three! Bring 'em on! How many more rabid homophobes are out there who are certain that two men or two women loving each other will precipitate the end of civilisation as we know it?
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My take on #377. Soma.
Moved by your post on 377! Very moved.
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