Dot Gay

I met Sunil this past July at an International LGBT Human Rights conference in Copenhagen. His intelligence, dignity, and accomplishments are all deeply impressive leader and it means a lot that he is throwing his support behind our initiative. Sunil, 36, trained as an engineer, and became an activist in 2000 because he felt so isolated from other LGBT people in his beautiful and deeply conservative country. Today, besides working in his country’s government, he also runs the Blue Diamond Society, the most successful LGBT movement in South Asia, one that represents 150,000 LGBTI Nepalese people. In 2008 Sunil received the Monette-Horwitz Trust Award, a prize given to people who combat homophobia. Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, and Anastassios Aliferis, the mayor of the Greek Island of Tilos who performed the country”s first same-sex marriages, were also recipients of last year’s prize. I am thrilled to have Sunil as an ally. Here’s a copy of his endorsement of the Dot Gay Alliance’s initiative to launch .GAY http://www.dotgayalliance.com/endorse-dotgay/sunil-babu-pant/

Here’s what the Los Angeles Times wrote about this fascinating and accomplished man. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/world/fg-nepalgay2