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June marked the beginning of the DU Pride Parade. On June 1, a Pride March was held at the University of Delhi's Art Faculty by the Students Federation of India (SFI). The outfits of the students gathered and sang and chanted slogans in support of their rights.
Students participate in the Parade by singing along and devising memorable slogans like "We will love who we want." The queer will not endure fear; "Love is Love" In addition, they asserted the issues queer communities had previously encountered.
The marchers claimed that queer communities in India faced numerous challenges. In particular, "Politics of Masculinity and "Commoditizing their feelings." Additionally, Komal, a Delhi School of Journalism student, had written on her board, "We are queer, we would not live in fear." She stated that students of all genders took part in the event to spread the message of freedom for queer communities.
City streets were enveloped in rainbow hues as students embraced the spirit of love and acceptance at this parade.
The most recent Pride parade in the Capital represented love in a variety of ways, including rainbow flags, colorful posters proclaiming acceptance, kisses flying in the air, and more. As part of the parade titled Celebration of who you are and who you love, students marched from outside Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (SBSC) all the way up to the College of Vocational Studies (CVS) in Sheikh Sarai.
Girlup Adira, a feminist group at SBSC, collaborated with other Delhi University societies like Enactus Dyal Singh College, Project Aaina, and Girl Up Imkaan to organize the event. However, not everything went as planned because some members of the queer community were of the opinion that organizations that did not include LGBTQI+ members should not be putting on such events. "Some people are commodifying the queer movement... Our collective got ratified recently, and we weren’t even asked to be part of this originally, even though we are the ones responsible for representing the concerns of queer individuals," says Dev Upreti, a member of the Queer-Feminist Collective at SBSC and student of BA (Hons) Geography.