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Gay Kolkata

LGBTQ+ Travel Guide & City Directory · West Bengal

14,900,000 residents Asia/Kolkata View on Maps

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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Legal Status in India

Based on national laws as of 2025

42/100

Partial Rights

✓ Same-sex relations legal

✓ Equal age of consent

✗ Partnership / union

✗ Same-sex marriage

✗ Adoption rights

✗ Anti-discrimination law

✓ Legal gender change

Section 377 decriminalised by Supreme Court in 2018. The Transgender Persons Act (2019) allows legal gender change. Supreme Court declined to legalise same-sex marriage in 2023.

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Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk

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Kolkata, India

Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk

The Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk has been going since 1999, making it one of India's oldest annual pride events and one of the very first in Asia. Kolkata's long tradition of intellectual and artistic radicalism has always made it a natural home for visible queer politics, and the walk carries that history with pride. Today it draws thousands through the city's characterful colonial-era streets in a march that feels both historic and urgently contemporary.

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