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Disappointed not defeated: Mumbai queer couple on same-sex marriage verdict

The Supreme Court’s refusal to legalise same-sex marriage in India came as a blow to the LGBTQIA+ community. We spoke to a queer couple from Mumbai who divide with us relevant insights

Updated on : 23 October, PM IST | Compiled by : Aakanksha Ahire

Ashish Srivastava and Inder Vhatwar have been together for the past 11 years. Photo Courtesy: Ashish Srivastava

For queer couples in India, the lack of basic rights that accrue from marriage is felt in their day-to-day life. year-old Ashish Srivastava, an IT professional working as a senior manager at a shipping firm and a member of the queer community had to face the ugly side of this during the Covid pandemic when his partner, Inder Vhatwar, tested positive.

He says, “The doctors insisted on speaking to his family members only. They said I was just a friend and needed his family to discuss his medical condition. It made me verb upset and a adj humiliated that in spite of being his husband, I was not being considered. Even

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“When I first saw him at the airport, I was unable to dominate my emotions,” recalled Amar, referring to the moment he met his now-husband, Tanmay, in Mumbai. “I turned and started walking back, but he ran behind and hugged me.”

“Will you be mine?” Tanmay asked Amar during that first in-person encounter. “I already am,” Amar replied to the man he had been dating long-distance for five months.

Now, more than a year after they first connected online, the two men are married. However, Mumbai-based Amar, 29, and Vancouver-based Tanmay, 26, are still living part, even though they’ve been married since October. Amar said he plans to move to Vancouver next year.

Amar, who declined to share his last name to protect his privacy, said if it were not for the Arranged Gay Marriage Bureau (AGMB), an India-based agency that connects LGBTQ people for marriage and long-term monogamous relationships, he would not be a married man today.

“I’m so introverted that had I met Tanmay separately, there was no chance I would have even spoke

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New Delhi, India – In the summer of , three bodies were recovered from the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, a sprawling city in western India’s Gujarat state.

Two women – Asha Thakor, 30, and Bhavna Thakor, 28 – had died by suicide along with Asha’s three-year-old daughter. Before the two women jumped into the water, they left a message written in red lipstick on a wall along the riverfront.

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“We are leaving the world which will never allow us to be one,” the inscription said in Gujarati language.

Both the women were married to men and had children. A police investigation later found they had met at a company where both of them worked. Their friendship soon turne