(India) - In a healthy sign of widening cultural acceptance of the gay experience in India, the 2007 Nigah Queer Festival has made daily news since opening to a diverse crowd of Delhiites last Friday. Part of the ongoing campaign for the legalisation of gay rights, the festival presented the hard politics alongside a series of events exploring varied forms of queer expression in cultures from India, Israel and Canada, to Hong Kong and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For 10 days, queer artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians had an alternative forum to strut their talent and present work in context with other like-minded artists and sympathetic audiences.
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