When you’re LGBTQ and getting married, it can feel like you’re having to come out again and again. It’s exhausting! So we’re sharing with you this dose of awesomeness to relieve that for just a moment.
The United Nations Free & Equal campaign’s video for the first-ever Bollywood music video for gay rights features Bollywood star and Miss India winner Celina Jaitly. First, we see two men showing up to an Indian ceremony (a wedding, perhaps?) with the family eagerly waiting in anticipation to meet the new lady in this young man’s life. And out from behind the bush emerges another man. The family looks confused. Then the men hold hands, to which the grandmother reaches for her granddaughter’s hand. The grandmother is searching for answers, trying to understand, and the granddaughter starts to sing an explanation about love and acceptance. Oh, this is beautiful!
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Kirsten Palladino
Kirsten Ott Palladino (she/her) is an award-winning editor, writer, speaker and educator, as well as the author of the first gender-neutral wedding planning book for LGBTQ+ couples, EQUALLY WED: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PLANNING YOUR LGBTQ+ WEDDING (Seal Press). She’s the co-founder and editorial director of Equally Wed, the world’s leading digital LGBTQ+ wedding magazine, as well as Equally Wed Pro, the LGBTQ+ inclusive certification course and educational platform. Palladino has been profiled on CNN, NPR and Forbes and in The New York Times. Her work has appeared in Washington Post, Entrepreneur magazine, ARTNews magazine, Art & Antiques magazine, The Knot, Executive Traveler magazine, the Huffington Post, and more. She was recognized as one of Glamour magazine's Hometown Heroes for 2015.