g_b Video of Gay Desi guy coming out to parents
Hi Friends: this is an absolutely hilarious video that I came across from the British TV show Goodness Gracious Me. Its about an Indian gay gay coming out to his clueless parents. Definately soemthing that we can all appreciate. I found it posted on a site called IndusGay.com which is appropriately enough a site for Desi gay/lesbian dating. So check out this video .. its funny ! http://www.indusgay.com (see video in middle of page) Thanks Ranjit
g_b File - Personal Advertisements
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Tired of too many emails from this group? Hi All I know that this group has been generating too many emails. Many subscribers are flustered at the number of mails. Some of you might be thinking of leaving the group because you do not like your mail box to be clogged with mails. But just in case you do not know, you have the option of receiving all your emails in a digest mode or you can opt for no email mode. That way, you can see what's new on the website and still keep a clear mailbox. You will never receive mail from us if you do that. YOU choose when to visit us ... and you can check out what you like and can skip over what doesn't interest you. (Or choose Daily digest ... once or twice a day, you will receive an email -- text only -- listing all new postings ... just click on the messages link at the top of the digest to go to the web archive to see any attachments.) How ? Depending on what you opt for, you can send mail to: Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
g_b File - E mail problems?
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Re: g_b Video of Gay Desi guy coming out to parents
Thanx for sharing the clip Ranjot, The last line in the clip : You couldn't have found a nice indian boy Boy that sure wuz hilarious regards, Guess. --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Ranjit Pradhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ranjit Pradhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: g_b Video of Gay Desi guy coming out to parents To: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 8:36 AM Hi Friends: this is an absolutely hilarious video that I came across from the British TV show Goodness Gracious Me. Its about an Indian gay gay coming out to his clueless parents. Definately soemthing that we can all appreciate. I found it posted on a site called IndusGay.com which is appropriately enough a site for Desi gay/lesbian dating. So check out this video .. its funny ! http://www.indusgay .com (see video in middle of page) Thanks Ranjit
g_b from HT: Indrajit Hazra on the Law Ministry's unnatural attitude
From yesterday's Sunday HT, a timely and quite high profile reproof to the Law Ministry's views, as reported in HT earlier in the week, that S.377 needs to stay as a protection against child abuse. My comments on the piece after: Unnaturally speaking Indrajit Hazra , Hindustan Times http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx? sectionName=ViewsColumnsSectionPageid=573a6b81-0b10-402d-b59b- fa324da55675Headline=Unnaturally+speakingstrParent=strParentID Some of my best friends are homophobes. They are the type of guys who see other guys lurking in corners and throwing a knowing smile screech-bang in the middle of an otherwise perfectly asexual conversation just before making a lunge. Like me, they are heterosexual men who, while they loudly follow the proceedings of, say, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, go into a deathly silence when they suddenly realise that they may have been following the proceedings of Russell Crowe in Gladiator a bit too earnestly. The only way they can break out of this terrible moment is by cracking not-too- sophisticated jokes about gay men. Or about women (straight or otherwise). But one thing that my homophobic friends aren't is stupid. Which is something I can't say about the hirsute blokes at the Law Ministry. Now, Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj may not have found anything sinister in the Laurel and Hardy films he may have seen while he went to G.B.C. High School in Rohtak. But when he says that lifting Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will open the floodgates for the sexual abuse of children, methinks he has mixed up his suppositories for his suppositions. Section 377 of the IPC is one flabby piece of law. It deals with what is sternly known as unnatural offences. These do not include walking into lavatories meant for the opposite sex, serving sugar with a soup spoon, or insisting that Kareena Kapoor is still a pudgy girl. Section 377 deals with whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal. Such a man shall face imprisonment and also be liable to be fined. Okay, so I do think that men having a thing for men is unnatural. But I also think that staying up at night to finish this column, to eat food that's not raw, and to defecate in a ceramic bowl of water are also unnatural. If a man wants to conduct business with another man that goes beyond orthodox notions of male bonding, sure, I'll be a bit frazzled. But it's not my business unless it becomes my business. As the saying goes, one man's freedom fighter is Michelangelo's David. But what the Law Ministry is saying is wickedly crooked. Not wanting to sound the honest bigot and run into an open confrontation with the Health Minister's suggestion to make male homosexuality legal (female homosexuality is not illegal for the simple reason that, according to Indian law and the former Empress of India, Queen Victoria, it doesn't even exist) the Law Ministry has lumped all gay men as potential rapists of boys. The excuse for such `lumping' is that we actually don't have any law that specifically addresses child sex abuse. So we have Section 354 that punishes those who `outrage the modesty of women' and Section 376 that punishes the perpetrators of female rape. Both these laws apply to minor girls as well as to women. Which leaves the boys under the mercy of that quivering piece of legislation, Section 377. Instead of lopping off the head to cure the headache (and thereby continue to outlaw consenting man-man sex), isn't it more effective never mind fair to focus on the gnawing concerns of the straight-as- an-arrow Law Ministry by enacting the forgotten Offences Against Children Bill, 2005? Goa has enacted its own anti-paedophelia law. The Goa Children's Act is far from perfect. For starters, it has too many loopholes for it to be properly implemented. But it's still way better, both in terms of catering only to children as well as by letting those Oscar Wilde-types be. Let me just reiterate things before some of you get the wrong idea. I've always been uneasy about Soorma Bhopali in Sholay and had to shut my eyes pretty much throughout Brokeback Mountain. But those can't be reasons for me to turn Soorma and Ang Lee's cowboys into predatory paedophiles. - Over to me: Indrajit Hazra is a well-regarded writer, though I have to say I tend to find him a bit tiresome and, gratitude apart, this piece doesn't change my opinion. He tends to take a macho, bad boy attitude towards things, and when it comes to dealing with homosexuality this seems to play out, as with Pritish Nandy, in loudly proclaiming their lack of comfort with homosexuals while still insisting that we should not be criminalised. On a personal level I find their attitude a bit silly and indicative of their own insecurities. Completely secure people don't need to justify themselves but
g_b from HT: apro Queen!
HT also had a nice double page feature by Barney Henderson on how Freddie Mercury is remembered by his old school St Peter's at Panchgani. Apparently the school regularly gets Freddie fans turning up, but they're a bit embarassed about it all because of his flamboyance and homosexuality, which seems to have been pretty evident from early on: It was very obvious that Freddie was different from the other boys, Smith recalls. He would run around calling everyone `darling' and he often got over-excited. At that time we didn't understand things like being gay. I once asked my mother why he was like that and she just told me that some people are different. What's good about the story is that it brings up the gay angle a lot, showing how it causes problems for a lot of silly people who should be proud about their association with the biggest Queen of all. HT, which was really milking the story (a low news weekend, maybe) ran several side stories (which I can't access, unfortunately since they have started charging for their archives) with reactions from people like a trustee of the Parsi Panchayat who said they could not accept Freddie because Zoroastrianism condemns homosexuality. All one can say to that is that Zoroastrianism might, but most Parsis don't! The community has always had a high level of tolerance which goes along with the feeling that those who really take their religion seriously are slightly bonkers, and going on the evidence of the Wapiz-wallas, or that creep Cyrus Mistry who mercifully has moved on from afflicting us in Bombay Times, who can say they are wrong? In tribute to all such right thinking Parsis, both queens and commoners, I'm reproducing a column I did for TimeOut ages back after Barney's piece: from HT: Panchgani's wild strawberry Barney Henderson http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=173cd9be- 1124-4e5f-9b58-50905da4e364 Freddie mercury lead singer of the group Queen learnt to play the piano and perform on the stage of St Peter's boarding school in Panchgani, Maharashtra. He also had his first homosexual relationship at the school, his teachers say. India has however turned its back on the man that many claim is its only truly global superstar. Very few people now think of Freddie Mercury as an Indian Parsi. Listed as one of the 100 Greatest Britons in a 2002 BBC poll, there is a statue of Freddie in Switzerland, and a huge figure of him has looked down on central London, to promote the hit Queen musical, We Will Rock You, since 2002. In India, all that remains is the burnt- out shell of a Moutrie piano. The beginnings Farrokh was born to Parsi parents Bomi and Jer Bulsara in Zanzibar. The family surname is derived from the town of Bulsar (also known as Valsad) in southern Gujarat. When he was seven, Farrokh moved to Mumbai where he stayed with an aunt and in February 1955, he was sent to St Peter's a boarding school in the English tradition, high in the foothills around Pune. There was an emphasis on etiquette at the school that remains, and cricket continues to be played in perfect, lily-white flannels. Farrokh, they say, was a quiet child who excelled at art and music. He was a good footballer and also boxed for the school, although his left hook wasn't up to much. Academically, his strengths were English and history. At 12, he was awarded a Junior All-Rounder trophy for all his achievements. Looking back at Farrokh The only teacher at the school who has any memory of the prodigy is Peter Patrao, the school's ecological curriculum advisor and former maths teacher. He was a fairly nondescript boy with buckteeth, Patrao recalls. The other boys called him `Buckie', which he hated and that was may be how he came up with the name Freddie, to beat the bullies. (Freddie's famous overbite was caused by the presence of four extra teeth that pushed his incisors out. He never had surgery on it for fear of it affecting his unique voice). Freddie formed his first band at the school with four other pupils and played concerts that were popular with the town's 3,000 inhabitants. His band was called The Hectics, but everyone in the town knew them as The Heretics because they were so different and extreme for the time, said Patrao. The Hectics covered hits of Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley and Little Richard, as well as more traditional Indian classical music and choir music. Freddie later listed Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar as his early musical idols, and it is not hard to spot the Bollywood influences on Queen's high camp splendour and ceremony or the baroque flourishes in their music. Early gay days It was around this time that the young Freddie began to explore his sexuality, and in the all-male dormitories, it is likely that he had his first homosexual experiences. Homosexuality exists in any school and it was certainly did in St Peter's at the time that Freddie was a
g_b The GayBombay Film Festival on Sunday 07 September 2008!
The GayBombay Film Festival on Sunday 07 September 2008 is the third flower in the bouquet of events to celebrate GayBombay's 10th Anniversary Day, Date and Time: Sunday 07 September 2008 between 13:30 and 18:30 Hrs. ENTRY ALLOWED FROM 13:15 - 13:30 Hrs. The first film will start at 13:30 pm sharp and we SHALL close the doors after 13:30 Hrs. So be there before 13:30 Hrs. Venue: Conference Room; Ground Floor, National College; Linking Road; Bandra West; Mumbai 400 050. Directions: National College is a 10 minute walk from Bandra Station (West) and a minimum rickshaw fare ride. The entrance to the conference hall is on P. G. Kher Marg which is on the right side of the National College Building. Contribution: Entry is free. The event is sponsored by GayBombay. Individual voluntary contributions are welcome. Program: The movies shall be announced soon Notes: 1. Though guys coming slightly late can be condoned the bane of the festival is the constant traffic of guys running in and out to answer cell phones quite unconcerned with the disturbance they are causing. We request people to PLEASE SWITCH OFF their CELL phones during the screenings. Anyone who walks out during the screening will not be allowed inside until the next break. DOORS WILL BE LOCKED ONCE A FILM BEGINS! 2. The films are excellent original copies on DVD VHS. 3. The films are NOT pornographic; only good, clean gay films. 4. GB, as a support group, has created this comfort/safe space for gays. Many people at the event may be newbies (those still coming to terms with their sexuality and/or those who have mustered the courage to come to such an event for the first time). We request you to be sensitive to the comfort levels of others and to behave and dress accordingly. 5. You have to be above the age of 18 to attend this event. 6. If you have any queries please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This event is organised by: www.gaybombay.org. Right of admission reserved.
g_b Mumbai not or bachelors, gay or str8
city is not for bachelors BY ARAVIND ADIGA (Guardian News Service) 30 August 2008 Print javascript:window.print() [image: Print Article]javascript:window.print() E-mail http://www.khaleejtimes.com/friend.asp [image: Send to A Friend]http://www.khaleejtimes.com/friend.asp Shabana Azmi, an Indian actor, recently kicked up a stir by claiming that Muslims cannot easily buy homes in Mumbai. This may well be true: but as someone who recently looked for a place to rent in the city, I assure Azmi that there is a category of person even less wanted in this city than the Muslim. I belong to this category. Mumbai's real-estate market suffers from a perpetual shortage of good, affordable housing. Landlords are picky. The lack of any real anti-discrimination law in the city means that the rental market is a bigot's paradise. Some landlords rent only to non-Muslims; some turn down Hindus; some permit only vegetarians in their flats. But almost none of them will gladly rent to a bachelor. In the rest of the world, unmarried men are called by their proper, varied names - singleton, gay, divorced, celibate — but Indian society still lumps them into one Victorian-era category: the bachelor. And the landlords of Mumbai want nothing to do with this fellow. Where the bachelor lives, there the orgy follows; this is the great fear. In the landlord's imagination, half-clad women appear and disappear all day long through the bachelor's door; gasps of illicit pleasure rent the middle-class composure of the building; disgrace and scandal follow. Interestingly, the unmarried woman is not regarded as a sexually depraved type, and many landlords are prepared to rent to them. It is only the bachelor who is taboo. Like so many of the stereotypes cherished by Indians, this one needs to go. All the unmarried men I know are hard at work — on a screenplay, a novel, or trying to find a wife. It's the fellows with the wedding rings, I notice, who get up to the debauchery. But even in India's most liberal city, old attitudes are surprisingly resilient. I spent a week looking for places — and got told the same thing every time I liked a flat. Even if the landlord was bachelor-tolerant, he was helpless; many of Mumbai's buildings have rules that explicitly forbid unmarried men from renting or buying apartments. Especially my kind of unmarried man. Three species of bachelors inhabit Mumbai, it turns out. First comes the company bachelor — the fellow who works for American Express or another multinational; most landlords will take him on, grudgingly. Lower down the real-estate food chain is the married bachelor — who is living alone, but has a wife in Canada (or so he says). Last comes the single bachelor — no company job, no wife in Canada. This is me. Making things worse is that I describe myself as a writer, a category that doesn't mean anything to the landlords of Mumbai; any young man sitting in front of a computer and typing all day must be playing games of some kind. Instead of doing solid, virtuous things like looking for a wife. In Versova, a beach suburb in the far north of the city, I saw a second-floor sea-facing apartment with large glass windows. The waves came almost to the foot of the building. I imagined myself here, at a table, drawing energy from the ocean and hammering away on a Remington: I could turn out a hundred pages a day here - I could write a Les Miserables in a year. Just one question, the landlady said on the day we were to sign the lease. When is your wife coming to join you? I explained; she stopped smiling. The last tenant was a married bachelor, she said. He had a wife in Delhi, but he lived alone in this flat. And guess what he was doing here? Tell me, I said, my heart sinking. He was familiar with young ladies. You don't say. And he was coolly running a brothel service. In this very flat. The waves at Versova will never beat near my Remington. Some other writer will finish his Les Miserables in that flat — with his wife looking over his shoulder. After two weeks of hunting, I did find a place — at a price far below what I was prepared to pay, and in a part of town with too much noise and pollution. I'd like to get out of here in a few months, but where can a bachelor go? A cousin of mine suggests that there is only one solution: marriage. Otherwise I should just pack up and move to Bangalore. He's probably right. I love Mumbai, but my time here may be drawing to an end. This city's not for bachelors. -- www.gaybombay.in www.gaybombay.info
g_b Online Libraries - 25 Places to Read Free Books Online
Online Libraries - 25 Places to Read Free Books Online RSS Feedhttp://educhoices.org/rss/article_directory/Counselor%27s_Corner.html.xml Text Size [image: Increase article text] [image: Descrease article text] School Choices: - DeVry University http://educhoices.org/rdr/?caid=658cta=113 - University of Phoenix http://educhoices.org/rdr/?caid=668cta=113 - AIU Online http://educhoices.org/rdr/?caid=113cta=113 - Strayer University Online http://educhoices.org/rdr/?caid=1672cta=113 *Think it's impossible to find free books online? Think again. There are tons of online libraries that provide fiction, nonfiction and reference books at no charge. Here is a list of the best 25 places to read free books online.* [image: Free] 1. The Online Books Page - Free Books on the Online Books Pagehttp://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html The University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page is one of the best places to read free books online. There are more than 30,000 English works available. All of them are formatted nicely and can be read right on your computer. 2. Project Gutenberg - Free Books at Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the original producer of free electronic books. There are currently more than 25,000 books in the site's online catalog and 100,000 more titles available from Gutenberg's many partners and affiliates. 3. Questia - Free Books at Questia http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex Questia is probably best known as a resource for students and writers, but the site also hosts an outstanding library with more than 5,000 free books that can be read online. Offerings include classics and rare books. 4. Classic Book Library - Free Books in the Classic Book Library http://classicbook.info/ This free online library stocks the world's most treasured classics. Books are sorted by genre--children's literature, romance, mystery, science fiction and historical fiction--and include the writings of authors like L. Frank Baum and Jane Austen. 5. FullBooks.com - Free Books at FullBooks.com http://www.fullbooks.com/ FullBooks.com offers thousands of unabridged books that can be read for free online. All of the books are sorted by title. FullBooks.com also includes links to sites that have free reference books, science books and biographies. 6. Internet Public Library - Free Books in the Internet Public Libraryhttp://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/ The Internet Public Library is a great place to access magazines, newspapers and reference works. Site visitors can also find nearly 100 links that will take them to websites offering free books online. Links are updated on a regular basis and include descriptions that make it easy to find what you are looking for. 7. Classic Reader - Free Books from Classic Reader http://www.classicreader.com/ With nearly 4,000 free books, Classic Reader is a great place to find classic books, plays, poems and short stories. You can read the books for free on the site and add your own annotations. 8. Authorama - Free Books at Authorama http://www.authorama.com/ Authorama features free books from a wide variety of authors. All of the books in this online library are public domain books in XHTML, which means that formatting and illustrations have been preserved. There are currently more than 100 free books available and new books are added on a regular basis. 9. Bored.com - Free Books at Bored.com http://www.bored.com/ebooks/ Bored.com is exactly what the name implies--a site for people who are bored online. The site offers thousands of free books can be stored on your computer and read online. Book offerings include but are not limited to American literature, British literature, children's books, cookbooks, textbooks and reference books. 10. Read Print - Free Books at Read Print http://www.readprint.com/ Read Print is a free online library designed for students, teachers and readers of classic books. The well-organized site has thousands of free books sorted by author. Other site features include literature articles and a special section on Shakespeare. 11. The Literature Network - Free Books from The Literature Networkhttp://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php The Literature Network has thousands of free books, short stories and poems that you can begin reading immediately. The site also includes a slew of author biographies, quizzes and user comments. 12. LibriVox - Free Books at LibriVox http://librivox.org/ LibriVox is a unique online library that caters to both readers and listeners. The site offers free audio books as well as links to text versions that can be read online. Other site features include author bios, book summaries and links to additional book-related content. 13. Bartleby - Free Books at Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/ Bartleby is one of those sites that you want
