By Kevin Fernandes
Photography by Dinudey Baidya
For most of Bangalore’s gay community, being gay revolves around Planet Romeo (the online dating site), Chin Lung (the queer friendly pub on Brigade road), Barista’s on MG road, the weekly parties by miscellaneous organizers including Party Square and Pink Nation, and the once-in-a-year Pride Parade. To bring the gay community in touch with the other letters of the acronym LGBT, the organizers of this year’s Pride, chalked out a series of cultural and awareness programmes, with tonnes of fun and socializing thrown in. One such event was the Pride Mela held on Nov 21st at the Samsa Open Air Auditorium.
The Mela opened up at 11am in the morning and was centered on the open stage and its amphitheater of the Samsa Open Air Auditorium. With many stalls set up, and giving the vibrancy and colour the community is known for, the whole venue had the air of a fair in all its glory. While the audience, seated on the steps on the amphitheater clapped and cheered to numbers danced to and sung by members of the community (many of which were impromptu performances), many others, including a significant number of supporters and curious on lookers browsed around the stalls set up, some of which sold pride merchandise, books, food and the traditional information stalls.
Thanks for pink pages & kevin for publishing about the pride event in pink pages. being the organizer of party-square & the member of the pride committee i really thanks both of them.best of luck
Wow ! Kevziii… Nicely written son