Queer India — It's an amazing world!

Unforgettable shoot: celebrated make-up artist Cory Wallia at work, Bombay (now Mumbai), India 1997.

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Gay Bombay revisited - part two

Riyad Vinci Wadia was an avant-garde filmmaker. He has made BOMgAY (1996), India’s first gay movie. I filmed and interviewed Riyad in 1997, when homosexuality was still criminalized in India.

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Gay Bombay revisited - part one

After 22 years, I met Ashok Row Kavi, India’s first gay rights activist, again in Mumbai. I first filmed him in 1997, when homosexuality was still a big taboo in India.