Nepal: Gay Member of Parliament Forms Tourism Agency for Gays, Lesbians

Nepal’s first and only openly gay member of parliament, who is also the founder of the gay rights movement in the conservative republic, has offered a wedding and honeymoon package to Indian icon for the sexual minorities, Manvendra Singh Gohil, the crown prince of Rajkot. Sunil Babu Pant, who was nominated to Nepal’s newly elected parliament after a historic election last year, has formed the country’s first tourist agency for gays, lesbians and transgenders, and has obtained the blessings of Tourism Minister Sharad Singh Bhandari to promote Nepal as a holiday destination where sexual minorities can combine weddings with adventure tourism. Pink Mountains Travels and Tours, registered under the ministry of small-scale industries, has already received a booking from an American lesbian couple who want to travel to Nepal in 2011 and marry there while a second couple, featuring a Filipino and an Arab in Dubai, have been in touch, saying they would book as soon as Nepal gets new laws legalising same-sex marriages. Full Story from the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Nepal-MP-offers-honeymoon-package-to-gay-Indian-prince/articleshow/5292379.cms

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