The colours of gay pride splash across India’s financial capital—including an iconic monument

Thousands of people along with their friends came along to celebrate the freedom of homosexual people in Mumbai for the first time after India’s Supreme Court struck down Section 377 — a colonial law that criminalised gay sex in India — on 2 February 2019.

Over 15,000 people marched down from Mumbai’s August Kranti Maidan to Opera House, Kennedy Bridge, celebrating their freedom and pushing for wider acceptance.

Here are electric photographs from the 11th edition of The Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride 2019