Mr Gay World India wants to create world of equality
The award for Mr Gay World India 2018 has gone to Kolkata boy Samarpan Maiti.
Maiti who is working as a senior research fellow in the field of cancer drug discovery from a reputed institute in Kolkata, stumbled upon a modeling career after his friends pushed him towards getting into shape.
Speaking to this correspondent, Maiti says that the win makes him feel like he is on the top of the world. “Being from a middle class rural background I had to face many challenges to be in the position that I am in today. The win made me feel that finally my struggles got acceptance,” he says, adding, “I will take this opportunity to inspire the thousands of struggling souls out there who are seeking acceptance too.”
Mr Gay World is a part of celebration of the LGBT community globally so that people from different countries can know the real challenges and achievements of different region and can highlight it into the global platform. “It is very important to send a representative from such a country that has not yet acknowledged the right of the LGBT community to speak about the discrimination, fights and social issues we are facing here,” says Maiti, adding it will also help the community in India experience firsthand what other countries are doing for the LGBT rights.
He wants to help the underprivileged members of the LGBT community who are lagging behind and the uneducated living in slums in urban places. “They are mostly invisible and neglected. I want to assure them that we all are besides them. My mission is to conduct gender education programme in schools and science researchers to make them sensitised so that our future generation can live in a society without any discrimination.”