Young Same-Sex Couple On Normalising Love

This same-sex couple from Mumbai have a big dream  --- and it is to live ordinary lives.

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00:00You'd like to read this one?

00:01Yes.

00:02So it says,

00:03I just hate to see those people who are homosexuals

00:07because they have gone out of order.

00:17In India, dating as the same sex couple might be difficult at times.

00:30So my first impression of Atalan was that he was this macho cool dude in this dance

00:41company that we worked in in the past and turns out he was quite opposite.

00:47He was very kind and he was very understanding.

00:50The first time we had a conversation was on Instagram where he replied to one of my stories

00:55saying something and I just replied back to it.

00:58In the beginning when we started talking we didn't even know that this is gonna go somewhere.

01:03Like as a relationship wise we were just thinking that oh we're

01:07two gay boys in a company and why not be friends and stuff like that.

01:11Every other teenage drama starts this.

01:15But slowly when the conversations grew on Instagram and we got to know each other and

01:20we were like oh this is gonna go somewhere.

01:24When we started our page Honey I'm Home we started it because we wanted our friends

01:31to just know about our lives and share our lives.

01:34It gets hard when we have to face the society to be very honest.

01:38Like for example when we're at a family gathering and when we get the stares.

01:42I think where we should be going is not just to

01:45create awareness about our community but to normalize it.

01:49Exactly I want to wake up tomorrow and not

01:53you know and be like teach people or educate people gay people at this gate.

01:58I just want to wake up as a normal person and just be with him.

02:03We have to be very honest mostly received only love from the people who follow us.

02:08This woman actually it's not like a comment but it's like a

02:12message that she sent us on our account and she said my son is six years old

02:16and I have already told my friends and family

02:20that I would give him complete liberty to date anyone he wants boys girls anyone.

02:25It's just that he should be happy and not that we didn't get it but

02:32we didn't get it as much as a normal kid would get.

02:39This makes me really happy.

02:43Sorry I got a bit jokey.

02:45Like can you imagine going to a couple's massage and being like

02:48um yeah we're a couple like having to explain that I don't want to do that.

02:56It's just too much extra effort I mean life is already too tough.

02:59I make it harder.

03:00And that was a cute example couple's massage.