When her majesty Queen Harish graced ROTD with her presence in an earlier comment…we felt compelled to invite her to dance…I give you Queen Harish “the whirling dancing desert drag queen”:
Queen Harish is my alter ego – drag is in my blood, and while I am dressed as her I can let loose all my [...]
December 24, 2007
Categories: CULTURE VULTURE, QUEER DESI, RAJASTHAN . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
Manvendra Singh Gohil is a prince from Rajpipla, India who came out as gay and was subsequently disowned by his family.His story attracted international media attention.
Manvendra came out to his family in 2002, but it was only when he talked publicly about his homosexuality in 2006 that his family took action and accused him of [...]
November 2, 2007
Categories: GUJU, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
one of the less queer friendly smut films of B-grade Bollywood fare…involving a sapphic nympho who tries to give titty twisters to her girlfriend who gives her a lecture on heterosexual morality…. “You bloody Bitch! You are a bloody lesbian!”
I can’t embed it so click the link and see it on youtube. YOU ARE A [...]
October 21, 2007
Categories: DESI FILM & MEDIA, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 1 Comment
the word…”cheap” comes to mind. I mean, ok so it isn’t exactly legal for these guys to be building a Harry Potter castle but I somehow don’t think she’s quite getting the point of the occasion. She claims that the organizers will be making a profit off of her castle for Durga puja but asking [...]
October 19, 2007
Categories: DESI COMEDY CORNER, QUEER DESI, STRANGE DESI NEWS . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
Recently Abhishek Bachan was voted by a magazine called “Gay Asia” as Mumbai’s sexiest Asian man. The runners up were John Abraham, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Dino Morea, Upen Patel, Arjun Rampal and Saif Ali Khan. Last year’s winner was John Abraham.
In a dominantly homophobic culture its nice to hear how the media climate [...]
October 8, 2007
Categories: DESI FILM & MEDIA, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
Orientalism is not dead! It wears sexy lizard costumes and long spikey golden fingernails. I have never seen anything quite like him! This guy has reinvented gay burlesque with a bit of Indian dancing (kathak + Bharatanatyam) and Balinese dancing together with a background in ballet to create something…well…I think “fabulous” is the only word [...]
July 9, 2007
Categories: CULTURE VULTURE, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 1 Comment
This a short documentary film (split in 2 parts for youtube) in which Nishit Sharan, a gay Indian who was studying film-making in Harvard, decided to film himself coming out to his mother, who was visiting him for graduation. He is also dealing with the anxiety of having slept with someone with HIV and during [...]
June 9, 2007
Categories: DESI FILM & MEDIA, DOCUMENTARIES, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 1 Comment
Up until now I really thought that John Abraham was the man most in love with his biceps but I stand corrected… meet “Ali”- the first male stripper in India…apparently its illegal to work as a stripper in Bombay but that’s hardly going to get between a man and his passion….and this guy has a [...]
June 6, 2007
Categories: DESI COMEDY CORNER, DESI FILM & MEDIA, QUEER DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
12 April 2007
I had to read it to believe it. The guy apparently had his divine revelation in a British shop when he happened to look at a picture of the Goddess Bahuchar Mata. In a temple in Gujarat he is being worshiped as her living reincarnation. And I have to say I’m impressed that [...]
May 30, 2007
Categories: GUJU, QUEER DESI, SEXY SADHUS, STRANGE DESI NEWS . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 2 Comments