Huma Qureshi to raise gay rights awareness

Actress Huma Qureshi has joined an online poetic campaign to spread awareness about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Ishq ki Ijaazat is a film poem by Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh.

“I believe everyone should have the freedom to choose for themselves,” Qureshi said in a statement.

A statement said the initiative was not an angry outburst against article 377 that criminalises homosexuality. It is a poetic campaign to urge people to bring love into the open and not focus on sexual preferences. It is about a basic right that every human being deserves — to be able to love with dignity and not prejudice, a statement said.