The Hotel Heir Fighting For LGBT Rights In India

Brut India spoke to one of the rare Indian businessmen advocating for LGBT rights in the public eye.

Transcript

00:00Every consenting adult in this country should have the right to choose their sexual orientation

00:06or the right to choose who they end up going to bed with.

00:11And neither the law nor the state should dictate that.

01:01Magnified when I was in the latter part of school.

01:05So it was basically class 10, 11 and 12.

01:09It's not like I had one incident, I had many.

01:13And there are certain words that are used, which I'm not going to say here

01:17because I'm not going to give power to those words.

01:22Especially in the Hindi language.

01:24That was repeatedly said to me and again and again and again.

01:30I'm not going to say it again.

01:44Those were the years when I actually really thought that maybe I should have a marriage of convenience.

01:49Maybe I should marry somebody who is lesbian

01:55and maybe that way I can live a normal inverted commas life.

02:15But they initially thought that it was a choice I was making

02:20and that maybe I'm making the wrong choice, as most families think.

02:24I was born this way, it was natural to me.

02:26And so that kind of reaction I had from my family,

02:29that it took them a little bit of time, but they understood that.

02:33And I'm lucky because they managed to understand that.

03:54and completely blames the government or blames the Supreme Court for not doing anything.

03:59What have I done?

04:24What have I done?