PU's STUc witnesses Rainbow Hues in Support of the Pride Week
To celebrate the 11th Pride Week and showcase their support, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people of binary genders along with the community people organized Chandigarh Pride Week, also known as "Garvotsav 2023", which started this Monday.
The event was organised at the Student center of Panjab University campus, with balloons of Rainbow colour resembling the pride flag, at display. On Tuesday, Naati, a popular Himachali Folk dance was performed by the members of the movement. Apart from this, a street play was also organised by the varsity campus, by Satvik Arts, in partnership with the Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi, showcasing the hurdles in the path of achieving the basic right of education by a transgender person.
Slogans and Placards were raised at the Student center in support of bringing up an open and comprehensive space for the people covering all the genders and sexualities.
Dhananjay Chauhan, the president of Saksham Prakriti Welfare Society Chandigarh and the founder of Chandigarh Pride festival, said, "We are proud of our gender and sexual identities and reject the shame and social stigma. Pride is also a protest against the discrimination we have to face in our daily lives."
As a part of the pride movement, a film on the topic of Queer rights would be screened at Alliance Français in Sector 36 at 4 pm. The week-long Pride Week celebration will end on Sunday. This would be a successful organization of the Pride Week in the tricity for the 11th time.
The UT administration has decided to start a helpline for grievance redressal dedicated to transgender persons in Chandigarh.
Such steps and display of support would indeed be a milestone, and will deeply affect the success of this movement in the region, and indeed a day will come when such people, will be able to hold their heads high and their minds would be without fear, and their existence would cease to be used as a cuss word and they will be accepted as a dignified members of the society.
Report by- Dibyam Kumar
Graphics by- Sanskar Dubey
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