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Mumbai's gays paint walls to spread awareness about living with HIV

Artists from Mumbai's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community took to the paintbrush, for the initiative 'Queering the City #SabNormal'

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The artists with the completed art work

The artists with the completed art work

The wall outside Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS), Wadala, became a medium for awareness on Tuesday afternoon, when artists from Mumbai's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community took to the paintbrush, for the initiative 'Queering the City #SabNormal'. In this wall-painting project, the public space was used to paint messages about AIDS awareness, living through an HIV-positive diagnosis and battling stigma around the disease.

Koninika Roy, advocacy manager of Mumbai's LGBT non-profit Humsafar Trust, said, "Since 1988, December 1 has been recognized as World AIDS Day, a day of mourning for those who have lost lives because of HIV. We have a number of organizations like Yaariyan, MDACS and Aravani Art Project, besides others, collaborating for this wall art project. On Monday, the Sion Hospital wall, near gate no. 7, was painted. On Tuesday, it is Wadala."

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