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Indian Cinema and Homosexuals and Third Gender
The effects of the changes in the society due to the sexual revolution in the West in 1960s after the introduction of the birth control pill soon became reflected in popular culture. But for the waves to hit the Indian shore, it took another decade or so. In the entire cinema's history, true portrayal of alternate sexuality occurred only as late as the 70s motivated by the global gay rights movement.
In 1931, Bobby Watson was cast as a homosexual fashion designer of the name Paisley in the film Manhattan Parade and Marlene Dietrich kissed another young woman on the lips in the 1930 film Morocco. While all this happened in Hollywood, Indian film industry waited 40 more years to even mention homosexuality. …show more content…

English, August assistant director Rangayan has made consecutive films in this category - The Pink Mirror in 2006, Yours Emotionally in 2007 and 68 Pages in 2007.
I AM by Onir, a collection film comprising of four short stories, bagged the National Award for Best Hindi Film and also Best Lyrics. Memories of March (2010) by Sanjoy Nag was a striking story of reunion starring Rituparno Ghosh. However, Chitrangada (2012) by Rituparno Ghosh was impatiently discontented in the quest of sexuality. Bengali film Aarekti Premer Galpo by Kaushik Ganguly told the story of a gay film director's obsession for his bisexual cinematographer.
Queer in Bollywood
During this time period, mainstream Bollywood attempted in its own way to settle the homosexual theme. But regrettably the characterizations stayed a parody of a serious matter even after all these decades. Movies like Dostana and recent Student of The Year attempted to introduce gay theme in the storyline but was unsuccessful in creating any sympathy due to the stereotypical satire of gay men. While a minor section is still trying to break the ice, it still is the job of a much influential and larger section of the film industry to drive for reforms and fix the writing to bring to public the sensitive LGBT

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