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Gay Mumbai

LGBTQ+ Travel Guide & City Directory · Maharashtra

20,700,000 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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Mumbai Queer Azadi March

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Mumbai, India

Mumbai Queer Azadi March

Mumbai's Queer Azadi March ('Freedom March') takes place each August in India's most cosmopolitan city. The march through the streets of Mumbai reflects the city's creative, arts-driven queer community — you'll find extraordinary costumes, political banners, and a genuine carnival atmosphere. Mumbai hosts some of South Asia's strongest queer arts and film programming alongside the main march.

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KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival

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Mumbai, India

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival

KASHISH is South Asia's biggest LGBTQ+ film festival, held each May or June in Mumbai. The festival screens over 150 films from across the world across five days, mixing international award-winners with South Asian queer stories rarely seen on mainstream screens. It's a genuinely important cultural event for the region's queer community, and the screenings draw packed, engaged audiences.

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