‘For many thousands of years, India accepted and celebrated diversity in both gender and sexuality. Ancient Indian mythology is full of loving and sexual relationships between same-gender gods or heroes, and the notion that people might not be either male or female was so common that third gender individuals were well recognised in Indian society. All that changed in 1861, when the colonial British government outlawed homosexuality...’⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #rainbowrevolutions #hijra #indiagaypride #queerindia #instaart #artist #illustrator #equality #love #genderfluid #transgender #lesbian #bisexual #lgbtq+ #pansexual #queer #nonbinary #asexual #trans #pride #loveislove #genderqueer #bi #demisexual #love #agender #aromantic #polysexual #gaypride #pan #lovewins https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoUiY4BsPG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l0ybzoc1pdvw
