Rainbow parents: How Humsafar Trust handles issues around LGBTQ community

A support group has been started by LGBTQ parents in Mumbai, to come out in support of each other and to make their children live a life guilt-free

How do you talk to your child at home? Do you provide him an environment where he can be open to speak to you about anything? From his needs and desires, to his sexual preferences — often, a child restricts his/her choices, and bases them upon what has been ingrained in him since early years, or what he sees in the society as “normal”. 

For parents of LGBTQ, it is at first, hard to accept. There are times when parents and family members turn hostile towards the child. Not knowing how it affects the child mentally or emotionally, often, parents