Mumbai gay scene

5 Facts About Homosexual and Lesbian Travel in India

Although India doesn't have the optimal reputation when it comes to gay rights, we think it is actually great for gay and lesbian travelers - either solo or couples. If the concern of organism gay or lesbian ever stops your visit to India, these 5 proof may put your consciousness at ease and obtain you prepared for a trip to India.

1. Tour guides and accommodations in India are generally friendly to male lover and lesbian persons.

Over the past rare years, we have organized trips to India for lots of gay and lesbian people and received no complaints from them. So we suppose they didn't receive any downside in India. As a matter of fact, more and more tour and hotel operators are eyeing the LGBT (lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, and transgender. The tourism market in India and many of them are actually training staff to be more accepting and less discriminatory. 

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Mumbai landmarks that were part of the underground gay scene in the 1980s

The Boatman, a book by former aid worker John Burbidge, is put in India during the early 1980s, unearthing facets and talking about Mumbai landmarks which were part of a thriving but subterranean gay scene 

Foraging around the internet for the phrase ‘Bombay Bandstand’ yields an odd million or two hits for the star-strewn promenade at Bandra, a heady sea-sprayed stretch of concrete that has been in existence for less than a decade.


TO BE FREE: Prefer these pigeons at the Gateway, silent sentinel to the subterranean gay society in the capital in the '80s and '90s. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar


Bandstand culture in Mumbai, now seemingly obscured on the internet, actually goes back a whole century or more. References to it can be set up in vintage texts and jazz tomes, although there has been a resurgence of interest in recent times (if ever so slightly), via the fine offices of the Bandstand Revival venture, which has attempted to bring advocate elusive traces of a bygone era by springing the pomp of an after-dusk live brass band upon an unsuspecting populace, who have long get comp

When it comes to travel aspirations, gay men and straight people want a lot of the same things: to see the sights, absorb the culture, sample the food, soak up the sun, and yes, test trip the locals and/or fellow tourists.

But despite the travel bar entity raised by wanderlust-ful onscreen heroines, from Katharine Hepburn in Summertime to Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love, we’re not necessarily looking for romance. Grindr and Scruff have seen to that. Some of us might skip the sights altogether in favor of sitting up in our hotel rooms, scrolling for the next score.

Bangkok, where I’ve spent a total of 20 months over the last six years, makes it so easy. It’s like the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Spartacus world. Sex tourism has thrived here for years. No-one has to leave to bed horny – unless it’s by choice.

Obviously, all explore destinations aren’t created equal. One night in Bangkok is bound to be different from one in Mumbai. Still, I wasn’t quite prepared for what I found in India, where sexual acts between consenting adult males is illegal. During the five weeks I spent traveling around the country – from Mumbai, Alibaug, and Goa on the Arabian coast, to New Delhi, Ag

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soberguyforyouPosted On Oct 25, 2022

I had been to Razzberry Rhinoceros before COVID and met rare people. Don't realize what is the scene now.

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sceathPosted On Oct 26, 2022

Club Run away in andheri is a kinda sleazy expensive pub with options for everyone who can shell out the right price..
basically Randi Khana hai Ye..

other than this there's Jug's kitchen in goregaon which is LGBTQ friendly a enormous negative of the place is that its not a pub / disco u can only have food here and only 5 tables in this place


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letsfuckPosted On Oct 26, 2022

What can be the challenges in opening a same-sex attracted bar in mumbai ? Asking from a business perspective. Not from lgbtq rights angle.

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Daniel100Posted On Oct 26, 2022

Basically all bars are lgbtq+ friendly.... No bar/cafe owners would hope any indecent habit.

but if you go there to hook up/create a scene with claps, etc.. then definitely no bar/cafe will be Gay friendly


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Nihith09Posted On Oct 26, 2022

@daniel100
Obviously nothing hanky Panky but mar least s