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Movies with South Asian LGBT Characters

Here are a few movies that have tried to portray a south asian gay character, either in a very small role or as central characters, in real or in a faux situation. In whatever little way, they all help in making the gay community visible to the South Asian mainstream.

#	Name	Year	Link
1	My Beautiful Laundrette	1985	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/
2	The Buddha of Suburbia	1993	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105963/
3	Fire	1996	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116308/
4	BomGay	1996	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115603/
5	A Mermaid Called Aida	1996	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117027/
6	Surviving Sabu	1998	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402513/
7	East is East	1999	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166175/
8	Stag	2001	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320525/
9	Mango Souffle	2002	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355740/
10	Bend it Like Beckham	2002	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/
11	The Pink Mirror	2003	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386499/
12	Kal Ho Naa Ho	2003	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347304/
13	Touch of Pink	2004	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374277/
14	Everything	2004	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417656/
15	Girlfriend	2004	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414714/
16	My Brother Nikhil	2005	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419992/
17	Chicken Tikka Masala	2005	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449000/
18	Modern Day Arranged Marriage	2005	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756320/
19	Best Mates	2006	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847810/
20	Yours Emotionally!	2006	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818705/
21	Gay Muslims	2006	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778701/
22	Milind Soman Made Me Gay	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1123397/
23	Kali Ma	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015994/
24	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808306/
25	Migration	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043717/
26	Searching 4 Sandeep	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067923/
27	I Can't Think Straight	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830570/
28	A Jihad For Love	2007	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780046/
29	Rex vs. Singh	2008	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323538/
30	Dostana	2008	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185420/
31	The Ode	2008	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0835826/

For non south asian films please consider going on to http://www.queerfilm.com/

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