For Hiten Noonwal, a gender-fluid performance artist and designer based in Delhi who teaches at various fashion and designing colleges, it is often about combining art and fashion. I find it a much more profound way to express myself as well as explain the subject and the students too find it fascinating," Hiten says. People judge you based all the time and also a lot of the messages are vile, to put it mildly," they add. For many members of the LGBTQ community looking for a speck of love online, Hiten has just touched the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to facing hostility, toxic sexism and in worst-case scenarios, harassment of both mental and physical nature.
A Meerut-based gang of four people was arrested on Thursday for allegedly targeting homosexual men in NCR and extorting money from them, police said, adding that the gang has been active in Noida and Greater Noida for the past six months. They got the victim to transfer money using an UPI app. Police investigation revealed that the suspects were operating in NCR since the past six months and the gang has targeted eight homosexual men so far to extort money from them. Officials said fearing being publicly outed, no one approached police.
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