In a first of its kind in India, a Gay Pride parade was held in three Indian cities on Sunday. Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata saw hundreds of people embracing their identity and proudly proclaiming their sexuality through a celebration of colour and music.

Over 500 sexual minorities marched five km in Bangalore, asking for rights to exist and to repeal section 377 of the constitution, which criminalizes sexual minorities. Many of the people, most of them from the lesbian and gay community, as well as transgender, came out most proudly with a host of supporters looking on.

For transgender like Chandni, the march was an opportunity to tell the world and her family, that she was proud of her sexual identity.

Chandni struggled for over 15 years with her identity till she changed her gender. A job with an NGO that works with transgenders helped her professionally and financially. She set up home in one of Bangalore's best-known residential areas.

With an adopted daughter to raise, Chandni says she wants to make sure others like her get a chance at life.

''Nobody accepted me. My family asked me to leave. There were a lot of expectations as I was their only son but I decided I would only be happy if I face my fear. Now I have a daughter and I am happy and here to create awareness about people like me,'' said chandani, participant.

It was not just sexual minorities that turned up at the parade. There were those who came just to show support. ''We are here to create a noise for something we believe in,'' sad Pallavi Chander, theatre personality. ''It's a celebration and people like us are out to create awareness,'' said Ekta Mittal, theatre personality.

It may have been a celebration but what Bangalore's first queer pride march has achieved is enormous, an awareness about sexual minorities which was earlier missing in the city.

source: http://www.ndtv.com/

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