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11 tags and 3 profiles in description#Repost @lgbthistoryindia ・・・ The first fight against #Section377 started with AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan -ABVA(AIDS Discrimination Movement) back in 1990. Dr P S Sahni, a doctor by profession, started a group in 1991 when they used to meet at Delhi's Indian Coffee House with their agendas. As Dr Sahni says, "It was a bizzare group of 18 people. We had a christian nun who was distributing free condoms at GB road in Delhi". In most of the cases they were abused by women in the coffee house as "Sodomisers" but they never bothered about it. They planned not to reveal their sexuality. Later when HIV was at peak in India, they requested Kiran Bedi, the governor of Pondicherry, who was a police officer back then to distribute condoms at Tihar Jail, Delhi. @kiranbediofficial refused that proposal saying "Distribution of condoms might progress Homosexuality inside the jail". ABVA gained recognition after publishing the first ever study on homosexuality in India. They wrote a report "Less than Gay: A Citizen Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India", in November 1991. The Sunday Magazine called it pornographic but later it appeared on #BombayDost , the first gay magazine by @thehumsafartrustofficial of India. The ABVA group vehemently protested the jailing of men who were routinely picked up from parks on the suspicion of being gay. When 18 people were arrested in 1992, they planned the first protest outside the Police Headquarters in Delhi. Many people joined them at the protest irrespective of HIV status, sexuality and gender. Later the national gay rights movement gained national attention because of prisoners of Tihar Jail.#Section377 #LgbthistoryIndia #Gayrights #Queer #HIV#Haveprideinhistory #TheAIDSMemorial #LGBTIndia
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