LGBT culture in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad is a conservative city when it comes to LGBT rights, compared to other Indian Metros. But since it slowly started becoming the second IT-capital after Bangalore, there has been a continuous influx of people of all cultures from across India. In the past few years, there has been some increase in LGBT activism in Hyderabad, including pride marches of 2013 and 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] Slowly, Top MNCs have been introducing LGBT friendly policies in their Hyderabad offices. [5]

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Organizations

There has been a few organizations/informal support groups setup in recent times, doing good work in LGBT rights in Hyderabad. A Couple of them are listed below.

The Firefly Community

Started in the year 2018, [7] The Firefly Community is a Hyderabad based NGO which works on issues related to "Gender & Inclusion". [8] The Community works on raising awareness by creating safe spaces and includes the medium of art to discuss issues which are a taboo in the society. [9] The Co-Founders include Alifiya Khan, Lawyer, Ayesha Syeda, Medical Student at VRK Medical College, Neeti Sudarsi, Medical Student at Apollo Medical College and Aaliya Syeda, Architecture Student at GITAM University. [10] The Community aims at raising awareness through the medium of art and worked extensively on topics such as LGBTQ, Mental Health, Indian Sign Language, Sexual Abuse, Menstrual Health etc. [11]

Mobbera Foundation

Mobbera Foundation is a registered unfunded organisation which is led by Sandipan Kushary and Anil which works for human rights, exclusively for LGBTQIA+community through Arts and cultural programs. [12] [13] [14] [15]

Dragvanti

Dragvanti [16] is a non profit organization from Hyderabad which is a safe space for all the drag practitioners within the city. Hyderabad drag club has started the drag scene in Hyderabad and been organizing drag events in the city and awareness sessions through drag on AIDS, safe sex, [17] queer story telling and open mikes. [18] [19] [20]

Homophobia/Transphobia in Hyderabad

There have been numerous instances of incidents of homophobia and transphobia in Hyderabad.

Back in 2011, a local news channel TV9 (Telugu) carried out a sting operation on gay dating websites and gay clubs, presented a very demeaning and homophobic view of Gay culture of Hyderabad. Following this news report, there have been many protests in Hyderabad and across India. News Broadcasting Authority of India issued notices to TV9 channel, following which it aired an unconditional apology which can be said as the first win of city's LGBT community. [21] [22] [23]

In early 2013, a Kashmiri student in the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, allegedly committed suicide because of homophobia of university authorities, students and faculty. [24]

In 2015, Few queer and trans persons were restricted from entering the GVK One mall. Included in the group was trans activist Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli, who filed a complaint about the discrimination and asked GVK to apologize for the discrimination. [25]

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