Jasvir recounts a moment of what interprets as acceptance from a Sikh religious figure that deeply touched him. It happened with his fiancé in a gurdwara in the UK in the run up to his civil marriage last year. "We went to offer blessings and had taken in a rumalla, a cloth used to cover the scriptures. The granthi, the custodian of the scriptures, saw us come in together and said he would say the ardas [prayers] for us. The granthi asked if there was anything in particular we wanted him to pray for, and we just said, for our wellbeing. But he asked if we were absolutely sure there was nothing else we wanted him to pray for. It was then I realised he had noticed that we both had mehndi [henna] on our hands which is often done in the run-up to getting married. He said the ardas and it was not just for our wellbeing, it was for the coming together of our two families. It was so powerful for me and for the two of us."
Aleem Maqbool, ‘Jasvir Singh: 'I'm a devout Sikh - and married to a man'’, BBC
