April 24, 2012
GAYBOMBAY PARENTS AND RELATIVES MEET: APRIL 22, 2012: OFFICIAL REPORT
By: Sachin Jain (jainsachi @ gmail . com)
The attendees: Aunts: 2, Mothers 4, Gay men: 62.
Venue: Roti Restaurant, Teli Galli, Andheri (East), Mumbai
Date: April 22, 2012
Time: 4pm to 8pm.
Umang gave a background to the meets and introduced each of the mothers and aunts in detail to
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Posted in Family Matters, Parent's Corner, Support & Advise
December 5, 2011
Deepak Kashyap is a trained counselling psychologist in REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy) and CBT ( Cognitive Behaviour Therapy). He deals with clients with day-to-day emotional disturbances, depression, anxiety and anger. He also takes a keen interest in dealing with parent child relationships, marital and pre-marital counselling, divorce counselling and sexuality counselling particularly for the LGBTQ community.
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Posted in Health & Sex, Listings, Support & Advise
June 11, 2011
There has been a lot of talk about the gay angle being portrayed on the Indian small screen in the serial “Maryada”.
The portrayal from the clip we have embedded (see below) from youtube shows a breaking of quite a few stereotypes of most representations of homosexuality within Bollywood.
The actors who have taken on the mantle
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Posted in Art & Culture, Coming Out, India, Magazine
April 18, 2011
by Deepak Kashyap
What makes some people gay and not others?
Being gay or straight is not in someone’s hand. Geneticists and other researchers are looking at many areas like epigenetics (hormonal effects on turning on and off of a gene), genetics (DNA make-up), pre-natal hormones and brain structure.
Despite all the
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Posted in Counselling, Past Events, Relationships
March 16, 2011
THE 10TH GAYBOMBAY PARENTS AND RELATIVES MEET: A REPORT
Sachin Jain (jainsachi@ gmail . com)
Introduction:
The Gay Bombay Parents & Relatives Meet has been a manifestation of our vision for a safe space for parents of LGBT persons in Mumbai for over a decade. Over a hundred family members (parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and
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Posted in Parent's Corner, Reports, Special Meet, Support & Advise