Trust social networking activists to come up with the best ways to protest. While people in the country were busy organising protests and petitions to urge the government and the Supreme Court to reconsider legalising gay sex again, a Facebook community decided to do things a little differently. It urged straight people to go out and kiss a friend of the same sex to protest.
The initiative is to express solidarity and support for the LGBT community
Gay for a Day is an event page unlike any other on Facebook currently. Set up soon after news of the Supreme Court recriminalising homosexuality emerged, the community is full of inspirational messages, videos and, of course, straight Indians showing solidarity with the LGBT community with pictures of them kissing their same-sex friends. The event was posted by Delhi resident Tanmay Sahay, dejected by the ruling. Sahay created the event and even put up a picture of himself kissing a friend. Over 4,650 people, at the time of writing this story, have registered for the event. “All you have to do is change your profile picture to one in which you are kissing someone from your gender in protest of the Supreme Court of India's ruling that criminalizes homosexuality,” reads the description of the event.
Post a pic kissing a friend from the same sex
Sahay goes onto explain that this may well be a very small, token gesture but it was a move to make the simple symbol of love, friendship and solidarity – a kiss – to show that the attendees stand for rights. “This is not a fight for gay rights. It is a fight for human rights and impacts all of us,” he writes. Check out some heartwarming images from the Gay for a Day page on Facebook:
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