Amid the battle to legalise same-sex marriage in India, this story of a couple who have been married for 30 years with two children reminds us that love is love. 🌈 💕
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00:00It was 1991. 1991, the year we met.
00:03Michael is probably the more romantic person.
00:061993, I brought him to meet my parents.
00:16Him, Popsy.
00:18And we called him Dad.
00:30Coming out is a very important part for a gay person's moment, a kind of watershed moment
00:40in a gay person's life.
00:41Because in that moment, you're allowed to just be who you are.
00:51She kind of became an advocate for the gay community in India.
01:00I was very in love with his smile.
01:17He was kind of looking angry and I found that very sexy, actually, when I first met him.
01:30That's my father and my mother.
01:51Why don't you get married?
02:00To us, you know, marriage is just between two souls.
02:07It doesn't need to be a man and a woman.
02:10So he immediately agreed and he's explaining to us the importance of marriage and staying
02:15together.
02:24Later, we did a lot of travels together.
02:26I'll deal from a couple without children for over 20 years.
02:57Which essentially, in the Indian family, the child is very important.
03:09There's this notion that gay people shouldn't have families, that we're not capable of raising
03:15children.
03:16And we call them Shiv and Amrita.
03:19Every school in Delhi is difficult for admission.
03:22But we got in on the international quota.
03:24We had a challenge because the schools didn't have a category for gay families.
03:31So we had to apply under single parent, but we weren't single parent.
03:37It was just kind of...
03:49Our class teachers know that we have to dance and most of our friends know that we have
04:03to dance since they're close to us.
04:06But if no one knows, we just tell them that they had cerebracy.
04:12I still don't know what that is.
04:14It's pretty easy to explain.
04:19Accept the gay marriage.
04:21They can't judge someone on who they're marrying.