THE QUEER SOUTH ASIAN LIFE
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It’s replete with challenges but has its great moments, too NUPUR BHATNAGAR AND PRATIKA YASHASWI
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reating awareness around gender, sexuality and coming out issues among the South Asian community is not easy. But Alex Sangha and Jag Nagra have done just that, despite the oft conservative nature of South Asian families, particularly around LGBTQ+ rights. “There is a lot of pressure in 58 | SEEMA.COM | JUNE 2022
the gay South Asian community, whether you are Sikh, Hindu, or Muslim, to get married and have children,” says Alex Sangha, a registered clinical social worker in Vancouver, Canada. “Living in intergenerational families with our parents and grandparents, we must fit into the family structure. How is a gay man going to bring a boyfriend home and have him
