In 1990, he founded Bombay Dost, India’s first gay magazine. Post this he enrolled as a Hindu monk in the Ramakrishna Mission and studied theology.įortunately he was encouraged by a senior monk to freely explore and express his homosexuality and he left the monastery and went on to study at the International School of Journalism, Berlin.His ‘coming-out’ interview made headlines after appearing in Savvy magazine in 1986. Advertisement Ashok Row Kavi Source: Facebook.Ī Journalist and one of the most prominent LGBT rights activists in India, Kavi is the founder and chairperson of the Humsafar Trust and has been one of the first people to openly talk about homosexuality and gay rights in the country.īorn in 1947, Kavi had dropped out of an engineering college, unable to deal with the reactions to his homosexuality.
