Bollywood gay actors

There’s a scene in the classic 2003 Gurinder Chadha movie Bend It Like Beckham, where the main personality Jess, a young South Asian girl, is speaking to her mate Tony about her crush on Joe, the dreamy soccer coach. This is when Tony makes the confession to Jess that he too has a crush…on David Beckham. Watching this interaction play out, I realized that I had never actually seen a gay South Asian before, onscreen or in genuine life for that matter. In a community that puts appearances and status above all else, and where the latest scandal is gossiped about by a cadre of intimidating “Aunties” poised and ready to pounce on revealing your shortcomings in cherish and life like a pack of wild animals, being gay was simply not talked about or even recognized as anything but shameful in Indian society. If anyone in my community was gay, I had not encountered them. So one can imagine how it felt being a closeted same-sex attracted South Asian dude at the time. It was like I was the only one of my species. A lost, lonely 22-year-old with no feeling of self whatsoever. Some weird anomaly created by a glitch in the queer Matrix, but nowhere near as cool as Kean

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