Jamshedpur Pride 2022

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Jamshedpur Pride takes place on Sunday the 26th June 2022.

People for Change and Jamshedpur Queer Circle in association with SAYAN( South Asian Youth Action Network) is celebrating Jamshedpur pride 2022 through the month of June to celebrate the struggle and history of the LGBTQIA+ movement and their struggle for civil rights and also to celebrate role models in the community and their accomplishments.

Jamshedpur Queer circle and People for Change are organising a series of events to commemorate the pride month. Open Mic and Fashion Parade was organised for LGBTQIA+ community in Bombay Brew Cafe. The theme of the open Mic was celebrating diversity and inclusion, whereas the theme for the Fashion Parade was "main hoon diva".The judges for the event were Miss Nora Samad and Miss Aishwarya Prasad. The special guest for the event was Mrs. Sarita. The event was attended by around 70 members from LGBTQIA+ community and some allies.

The participants celebrated the theme; diversity and inclusion through beautiful poetry, songs, stand-up comedy, storytelling through the Open mic event.
Songs like Pasoori, koi fariyad, gulabi ankhei were sung by participants to celebrate Pride and the queer community.

Sourav Banerjee, one of the participants of Open mic said"Mere liye open mic aisa platform hai jaha apne aap ko push kar skte ho khud ko aur bhetar janne ke liye.The fashion parade saw huge participants from the transgender community. Familiar faces from the community like Sanjana kinnar,Razia Kinnar ,Madhuri,Aparna, Kabootri all participated in the fashion parade. The fashion show, aptly called "Mai bhi Diva'aimed at bringing out the Diva or the best in each person. It consisted of three rounds. The first was an introduction round, the second was a talent round which saw many talents like singing, dancing, speeches and the last round was Q/A round where participants from LGBTQIA+ community talked about their struggles, inspiration and about themselves and shared their life stories with the audience.
Aeisha Kinner was announced as winner of “Main hoon Diva” followed by asanjana Kinnar and then Trisha. Aisha said" she was very happy since this was the first time she had got a stage, and she felt accepted".