g_b The GayBombay Sunday Meet on 27 JANUARY 2008 at THANE
The Café Coffee Day at Panchpakhadi, Thane, remains the place we gather at before proceeding to someone's place not far off for another round of chatar patar catching up on each others lives, just bitch about nothing or maybe just draft up a Constitution of the gays, by the gays and for the gays :-) We would be at the Cafe Coffee day for approx 30 min from 5.30pm before we push off to some place. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ Time: 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Venue: Café Coffee Day, Panchpkhadi, Thane (W). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ Directions: For those coming by trains: the place is just a 5 minute ride from the Station and you can ask for `Pizza Hut, Panchpakhadi, near Hari Niwas Circle', For those coming by Highway: turn in towards Thane City at Teen Hath Naka (opposite Eternity Mall) and take a left turn just before Hari Niwas Circle. There is a series of outlets for Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc where you can find the Café. ~ ~ ~ ~ Note : -Do get your friends along to help them gain access to a group especially if they are not netizens. -You do not have to be out to the world to attend. This is a discreet event being held as a clean, safe social get-together of a non-sexual nature. Hardly any of those attending are out as such. -You need to be at least 18 years of age to attend. -There may be many who will prefer being discreet or may be still be coming to terms with themselves hence a request that all be sensitive to this and act and dress accordingly. -To identify the group look out for someone wearing a black cap === See you all on Sunday. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: g_b Top or Bottom??? Other Asinine Questions People ask me on MySpac
A good asinine posting. On 26/01/2008, SoFLA Alternative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Top or Bottom? And other Asinine Questions People ask Me.* *By Geo Bustamante http://www.myspace.com/gaysofla * Several times a week I receive messages, via my social networking page, that can only be described as utterly asinine. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, asinine is an adjective that means extremely or utterly foolish. Asinine comes from the Latin word asininus, which, translated in English means relating to, or resembling an ass. Did you catch that? Asinine is just another word for a stupid ass! CLICK HERE TO READ MORE http://www.gaysofla.com/content/view/187/64/ -- Aditya Bondyopadhyay
g_b smilie
Two parents take their son on a vacation to a nude beach. The father goes for a walk on the beach, and the son goes and plays in the water. The son comes running up to his mom and says, Mommy, I saw ladies with breasts a lot bigger than yours! The mom says, The bigger they are, the dumber they are. Minutes later, he runs back and says, Mommy, I saw men with penises a lot bigger than Daddy's! The mom says, The bigger they are, the dumber they are. So he goes back to play. Several minutes later, he comes running back and says. Mommy, I just saw Daddy talking to the dumbest lady I ever saw, and the more they talked, the dumber he got! - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
Re: g_b Top or Bottom??? Other Asinine Questions People ask me on MySpac
Aditya; I totally agree with the views expressed in the article by Geo Bustamante. I am glad that he took the initiative to write it and that you forwarded it to the Gay Bombay group. I am always very positively impressed by your interesting and intelligent comments and analyses. Phil Aditya Bondyopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good asinine posting. On 26/01/2008, SoFLA Alternative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top or Bottom? And other Asinine Questions People ask Me. By Geo Bustamante Several times a week I receive messages, via my social networking page, that can only be described as utterly asinine. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, asinine is an adjective that means extremely or utterly foolish. Asinine comes from the Latin word asininus, which, translated in English means relating to, or resembling an ass. Did you catch that? Asinine is just another word for a stupid ass! CLICK HERE TO READ MORE -- Aditya Bondyopadhyay - Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! for Good
g_b Heath Ledger's Death Mocked by Fox Radio Host-A Call to Action
Fox Radio host John Gibson cruelly mocked actor Heath Ledger's death and his role in Brokeback Mountain during his Jan. 220 radio broadcast. Read the complete story here and express your view to FOX. http://www.gaysofla.com/content/view/194/1/ Dear Yahoo Group Members, For your convenience I've included all the contact information for FOX Broadcast officials including Mr. Gibson's. Let's flood their inbox with emails and I-Phones with voice messages!!! Regards Respect, David L. Wylie Senior Editor www.Gaysofla.com http://www.gaysofla.com/
g_b To India, with love
To India, with love Author: Reshma Jain Date: 13 Jan 2008 *Juan ran a restaurant at Ibiza, Eshel grew up in a kibbutz in Israel. Here's the extraordinary story of how this couple found love in India and their enduring affair with the country* Juan (sitting) and Eshel Herzhog share some happy moments Pic/Bipin Kokate Far far away, in a restaurant on the island of Ibiza in Spain one evening four years ago, a young Indian lady did a tarot card reading for Juan prophesising, A big change is going to happen in your life. Just go to India. Normally, this restaurant manager would have forgotten all about it. But surprisingly, with each passing day, his urge to go to India just kept growing until he finally decided to follow his heart. The night before he left for India Juan (pronounced as 'kwan') had an elephant god he had never seen before beckoning him in his dreams. Ten days later, he was in India, in Hampi when he saw this huge statue of Ganesha and immediately recognised him from his dreams. Instinctively, he went down on his knees in front of the idol, offering his prayers and asking for protection and for love to come his way. Almost that very instant; literally, he walked into his companion for the next four years and his love — Eshel Herzhog. The couple believe that Ganesha has blessed their relationship. Both had only broken English as their communication and a strong karmic pull. Both had come from different parts of the world — Juan is from Spain and Eshel from Israel, both were pursuing spiritual travel, both were content being alone, both had gone through their very personal journeys separately and both continued their soul searching even after their initial meeting. Eshel did a one-month course in yoga at Varanasi, while Juan did a course in McLeodganj near Dharamshala. Both did Vipassana at Dehradun in the course of a month apart. Eshel says, Vipassana meditation makes you more focused, cleaner and by the end of it, we knew we were in love. It was such a good connection – that 'once-in-a-lifetime' feeling. We went in it with a lot of courage and stupidity. India played the perfect background. It gave us the ability to recognize each other and connect. A life together Within a month of their return from India, not only were they meeting each others families but actually bridging broken ties. The same father who had disowned his gay son Juan for 11 years, helped him buy a house for them to move in together in Barcelona. Not only was it difficult moving between different countries, but the two also came from diverse behavioral patterns. Eshel has spent the first 15 years of his life in a conservative kibbutz in Israel where everyone knew everyone, while Juan comes from a robust and dramatic close knit Spanish family in Barcelona. With Juan's family, Eshel got used to eating sea food which is 'not kosher' and Juan learnt to understand that 'giving space' has nothing to do with lack of love. Eshel learnt Spanish and continued to achieve his masters degree in social work, while Juan managed a restaurant on the beach in Ibiza. The Indian way A few weeks back; Juan popped the magical question to Eshel — marriage dates were fixed for October 2008, but of course it had to be solemnized in India. As both Judaism and Catholicism do not accept their marriage, they decided in having a mix of Indian rituals mixed with their own vows. As Juan says, Since we had found love here, we had this childish dream of wearing these princely Indian outfits for our wedding day. So here they were back again, buying their wedding rings from Jaipur and sherwanis from Pushkar. Their bags contained churidaar kurtas, sherwanis and lehengas for their nieces (the girls will hold their rings at the wedding ceremony) and a whole bunch of comfy kurtas to wear on their honeymoon. Their one gripe with Indians is over their dressing sense. They adore Indian fashion and cannot fathom why Indians wear European cuts. India needs to be more comfortable in her own clothes, says Eshel. Circle of life Watching them talk is like watching a 'pas de deux' (a dance of two). Juan will start a conversation and Eshel completes it without a skip or change in the narrative style — they are so in sync. The two also came here to close a circle. In their first trip, they had traveled separately and so this trip, they traveled together. Shopping for their entire family, spending days with tailors, goldsmiths and sharing their version of India and Indianness. So is India different four years later? Both simultaneously shout, We love India! The diversity, the extremes between modern and conservative and thousands and thousands of gods and yet this feel of one divine hand. Everyday travelling a train or a bus is a struggle, traffic, rickshaw drivers and bargaining leaves us tired. But both of us have learnt here not to plan too much, to accept whatever is and that has made our love even more stronger. A changing India
g_b Mr.Gay India
Mr.Gay India http://mutiny.in/2008/01/27/mrgay-india/ *Posted on January 27th, 2008 by sanjuktahttp://mutiny.in/author/sanjukta/ *in Law http://mutiny.in/category/india/law/, Sexhttp://mutiny.in/category/living/sex/ Mr. Gay contest 2008 http://www.mrgaycompetition.com/ results are out. India is not the winner. 33 year old Carlos Fabian Melia from Argentina is. However for the Indian gay community and other gender benders, Indian contestant, 26 year old Mumbai based model Zoltan Parag is no less than a winner. Zoltan may not have won the contest but he sure did make a lot of us proud. I admire Zolan's guts to come out with his sexuality and to be the first Indian to participate any such contest given that he might well be booked under the criminal law of the country. Many at the contest thought Zoltan stood a good chance merely because of his courage alone. [image: india1.jpg] http://sanjukta.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/india1.jpg I wanted to know more about Zoltan so googled for him. Used various combinations, but couldn't find any significant information except a few repetitive lines. Found this blog posthttp://pranaadhika.blogspot.com/2008/01/bullshit.htmlwhere the author has spoken about Poornima Advani's homophobia http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/prej_defn.html and found a few news articlehttp://groundreport.com/article.php?articleID=2853249 . Being a new media evangelist, I expected this invisible section of our society to express themselves freely through blogs. But I couldn't found many quality blogs to be honest. One reason could be that they are yet to explore blogs as a medium. The other of course is the social stigma behind being homosexual. Indian homosexuals are an invisible bunch of people. Coming out with homo-sexuality is threatened with criminal prosecution and social ostracism. *Section 377 of the IPC* criminalize homosexuality. Not in that term but in effect. It reads, 'Whoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life'. The words *against the order of nature *can be interpreted in a number of ways but is mostly interpreted as anal sex. It also penalizes sexual acts like oral sex, regardless of whether it is heterosexual or homosexual; even penile-masturbation of one person by another – is considered criminal (basically they wanted to penalize everything that is not the missionary / Victorian penile vaginal penetration meant for procreation) A non legal person often wonders, 'how would the law (police, court) ever find out what two people are doing behind the closed doors?' The thing about criminal law is that, a prosecution can be initiated on a third party complaint. Which means even if the person reporting the crime has got nothing to do with the victim or the oppressor the police is bound to take an action. And the *third* party complaint might well be by the *police*itself. In some of the most horrendous incidents of police brutalities, queers from the lower class and caste have been humiliated and tortured by conducting anal inspection on them to determine if the said crime have been committed. For the police, one of the easiest way to extort money out of a gay couple hanging around the Ulsoor Lake area would be - a threat to arrest under this section. Funnily, there have been reports of gay sex workers being raped by hetero-sexual police *'men.'* It was only recently that queer activists in India raised a protest against this 150 year old law introduced by the British Raj. In December 2002 Naz Foundation http://www.nazindia.org/index.htm filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to challenge the section in the Delhi High Court on the grounds that, by prohibiting private, consensual sex, the section violates the right to privacy. It has been a long standing trend, not only just in India but all across the Globe, to wrap rights related to sexuality under some health issue before they can be sought and lobbied for. For the first time, through this petition, a right based approach have been taken in queer activism. The text of the petition and other legal developments can be found in Lawyer's Collective's website here.http://www.lawyerscollective.org/content/anti-sodomy-law-0The petition got significant support from various Delhi based NGOs who eventually formed into a coalition called Voices Against 377http://www.voicesagainst377.org/ The social ostracism queers have to face is even worse than police torture. There prevails a blanket homo-phobia in the society, more particularly amongst patriarchal hetero sexual man whose man hood is his honour (which basically is in his D*$). This 'man' refuses to recognize a gay as 'man'. A gay is called by names, looked down upon, made fun of, looked at with suspicion. For an heterosexual man the idea that a man can be physically attracted to another man is scary and disgusting. I often hear they say, *what if he feels me up* And I am
