Mumbai Gay & Gay Friendly Places
Bombay, Portuguese, more or less, for "beautiful bay", is
among other things India’s gay capital, just as Calcutta is the
intellectual centre and Delhi its political heart With just under a billion people in India, the
figure of 1 in 10 men being gay means 50 million gay men . And with 15
million people in Bombay, there are by that reckoning three quarters of
a million gay men there. Reckoning half to be adults still gives a
figure of around almost 400,000 or the popluation of a large British
city
Gay Friendly
Clubs and Bars
Club
21
Ambassador Hotel, Veer Nariman
Road
Ritz
Hotel Bar
Bombay International Hotel, 5 Jamsheddji
Road/Marine Drive
The
Headquater
Above the Cafe Royal,
Calaba
The
Voodoo Pub
Apollo Bunder,
Calaba
Tel 284 1959
(Saturday Nights only - after 11pm. Well worth a
visit!!)
The
Ghetto Pub
Warden Rd, (Next to the Mahalaxmi
Temple)
The
CopaCabana Bar
Chowpatty
Beach
(Very gay friendly though entry
is difficult. The best way for single men to enter is before 10.00 pm
Cafe Leopold
Colaba Causeway
(Popular with the gay community especially on Sunday afternoons.
If you are dying for fish and chips followed by apple pie and custard,
this is for you !.) They also serve Chicken Ticka Masala (with chips if
you wish !)
Groups
Humsafar
Centre
P.B. No 6913, Santa Cruz (W), Mumbai 400 054
India
Voice mail 91 (22) 972-6913 Tel 91 22
6187476
http://www.humsafar.org/
Drop-in
center operated by Humsafar Trust for gay men and
lesbians
Open every week day
from 3 pm to 8 pm.
The meetings are on
Friday from 7 pm to 8.30 pm
Bombay
Dost
105A Veena Beena Shopping Centre, Opposite
Bandra Station,
Bandra (W), Mumbai
400 050, India
(Publishes Bombay
Dost magazine)
Udaan
c/o Boxholder, P.O.
Box 6793, Sion, Mumbai 400 022 India
Be discreet when
writing; do not even mention “Udaan” on the
envelope.
Kush
Club
PO Box 57351, Bombay, 400
058
Gay & lesbian
organization
Phone Helpline
AANCHAL is the first helpline solely for lesbian and bisexual women in Mumbai, India. The phone number is (022) 370 4709. It has basically arisen because of the complete invisibility that lesbians and bisexual women have had and continue having in the city. Women who are isolated and fearful of others discovering their sexuality now have a safe place to interact with like-minded women. Aanchal means the sheltering folds of a womyn's saree. The phone is attended by a counselor on Saturdays between 3pm and 7pm. Confidentiality is assured.
CRUSING
AREAS / MEETING PLACES
********TAKE
CARE*******STAY SAFE*******
'The
Walls' -
This is the best
cruising area in Bomgay.. it is the road that runs along the waterfront of
the Hotel Taj Mahal. Best areas are closer to the Hotel Shelleys/Radio
Club side.
Chowpathy Beach - at the end of Marine Drive -
mixed crowd some sex workers
Apollo Bunder
Promenade (late evenings)
Check LGBT supporting Groups in Mumbai
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