This same-sex couple from Mumbai have a big dream --- and it is to live ordinary lives.
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00:00You'd like to read this one?
00:01Yes.
00:02So it says,
00:03I just hate to see those people who are homosexuals
00:07because they have gone out of order.
00:17In India, dating as the same sex couple might be difficult at times.
00:30So my first impression of Atalan was that he was this macho cool dude in this dance
00:41company that we worked in in the past and turns out he was quite opposite.
00:47He was very kind and he was very understanding.
00:50The first time we had a conversation was on Instagram where he replied to one of my stories
00:55saying something and I just replied back to it.
00:58In the beginning when we started talking we didn't even know that this is gonna go somewhere.
01:03Like as a relationship wise we were just thinking that oh we're
01:07two gay boys in a company and why not be friends and stuff like that.
01:11Every other teenage drama starts this.
01:15But slowly when the conversations grew on Instagram and we got to know each other and
01:20we were like oh this is gonna go somewhere.
01:24When we started our page Honey I'm Home we started it because we wanted our friends
01:31to just know about our lives and share our lives.
01:34It gets hard when we have to face the society to be very honest.
01:38Like for example when we're at a family gathering and when we get the stares.
01:42I think where we should be going is not just to
01:45create awareness about our community but to normalize it.
01:49Exactly I want to wake up tomorrow and not
01:53you know and be like teach people or educate people gay people at this gate.
01:58I just want to wake up as a normal person and just be with him.
02:03We have to be very honest mostly received only love from the people who follow us.
02:08This woman actually it's not like a comment but it's like a
02:12message that she sent us on our account and she said my son is six years old
02:16and I have already told my friends and family
02:20that I would give him complete liberty to date anyone he wants boys girls anyone.
02:25It's just that he should be happy and not that we didn't get it but
02:32we didn't get it as much as a normal kid would get.
02:39This makes me really happy.
02:43Sorry I got a bit jokey.
02:45Like can you imagine going to a couple's massage and being like
02:48um yeah we're a couple like having to explain that I don't want to do that.
02:56It's just too much extra effort I mean life is already too tough.
02:59I make it harder.
03:00And that was a cute example couple's massage.