Inside Delhi's unique Pride event

Food, musical performances, fashion and ambitious entrepreneurs, here's what Brut saw when we visited one of Delhi's Pride events.

Transcript

00:00It's pride month and Brute is attending an event that celebrates the LGBTQI plus community.

00:17The event is happening here in New Delhi and here's what we have in store for you guys.

00:30Vibrant performances,

00:42eclectic style,

00:55and passionate entrepreneurs.

01:00Pride for me is fighting against discrimination.

01:19For me pride means freedom. You can express however you want

01:22and don't care about anybody else and their judgment about you.

01:26One pride is a celebration.

01:30I never thought I'd be able to wear these clothes in such a crowd without getting any judgmental stares.

01:37I still wear these clothes but still I get that judgmental stare.

01:42But here I'm feeling very safe.

01:44Also when I was coming here, the auto drivers were asking me where I was going and what's the event.

01:51So I told them that Tinder has organized an event for the queer people.

01:56It felt so good that the auto drivers were appreciating it.

01:59And with the trans rights being so bad in our country, we need to work it out and be ourselves

02:06and like sort of c**k all the time everywhere at the workplace, at home, outside because we are here

02:14and we are queer, baby!

02:16Hey!

02:18I thought there would be no nudity here.

02:20They lie so much!

02:26It's been such a fun evening hanging out with my friends and just drinking and chilling and dancing.

02:31So what I'm selling is, it's Fantistry, right?

02:34I'm selling pleasure and I'm selling fashion.

02:37It's the first brand that is selling leather as kink.

02:41So exclusively it is a fetish brand.

02:43I was honestly, I was a little bit scared because it's the first of its kind in India.

02:46I mean if you talk about kinks and fetishes, nobody does that in India, right?

02:50You're already raising eyebrows around me, I'm sure.

02:52When I was a child growing up, I couldn't ever believe that in India I would see, I would be a queer

02:56and I would have a space which was so safe, so happy.

03:00Instead of like moving around and dancing, I'm a queer person.

03:04While we need to acknowledge the joys of being queer,

03:09we also need to acknowledge and hold space for dreams and vulnerability that our queer bodies carry.

03:18So these represent the disabled queer bodies.

03:24Like if you look at this one, this specific one, it talks about how rest is revolutionary.

03:30And as a disabled folk, we have a very limited amount of spoons if we say that

03:36to do the task and like set up a stall or whatever.

03:39So we talk about how rest is revolutionary and like how queer bodies and disabled bodies are made for these.

03:47These paintings also represent full intimacy and desire.

03:53For example, this represents, you know, disabled suffering desire.