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: Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 8:10 AM IST
Pride Month 2021: Gay men and lesbians are what makes pop culture âpopâ, says Ashok Row Kavi
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Heâs one of the pioneers of the LGBTQ movement in India, leading on the fight from front at a time when the community was barely there, marginalised, stigmatised and even considered illegal. And even now, as 70+year-old youngster,
Ashok Row Kavi leads from the front everywhere, taking on millennial tools like Instagram and Clubhouse with gusto and educating the world about the LGQBT community and a host of other issues he is actively involved in.
We caught up with the Grand Maa (in Row Kaviâs words) of the LGBTQ movement in India, in a no-holds barred, freewheeling chat with Ashok Row Kavi. Read on for the edited enlightening and entertaining excerpts: