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= Bombay Dost = The Bombay dost magazine  is the India’s first and only registered magazine on lesbian gay bisexual transgender  issues and culture. This is founded by Ashok Row  Kavi in 1990. This magazine had lighten up the lamps in the dark world of LGBT community. This magazine came up with the hope that they can also get the platform to raise their issues and problems in front of the world. Mr. Ashok Row never thought that BOMBAY DOST will get such a success that it has the capability to survive and complete 25 years of its existence. The new Bombay Dost magazine comes with the tag-line ‘bolder than ever’ they generally want to boost the confidence level of that community. For so long, the LBGT community have no one to talk or share their problems with .Bombay dost have became the way out. Indian male and female homosexual learnt from the Bombay Dost ,how to understand their identity and connect to people like them. It taught the LGBT people how to approach the people of their category and how to come together so that they can raise their voice against the discrimination Even Bombay dost present Bombay dost Sunday high. Bombay Dost Sunday Highs are events usually held on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month. through these events they want to change the mentality of society by showing movies, video on these heart touching topic.

Vision
VISION of Bombay dost magazine is to make a gay and men to men sex not a taboo topic in India. Bombay dost visions of a Nation which have equal rights and opportunities for every individual,be it heterosexual or homosexual. In India most people don't even know their sexuality, in such scenario bombay dost envisions individuals accepts and acknowledge their sexuality.

Mission
Bombay dost was started with primary aim of supporting LGBT people. As we all know that in India people belonging to LGBT still cannot openly accept their belonging to it. Bombay dost aims at bringing openness to the people attracted to the same sex. It wants to create an environment where such a person openly accepts being among LGBT community. A person must not be ashamed to be attracted to the same sex. Along with acceptance amongst LGBT people they also aim to create awareness amongst others that they belong to the same society and must be provided with equal rights. By publishing magazines they aims to make people look at it on regular basis so that people gets habituated and adapted to such publications and such people. One of the mission of the magazine was to avoid the saying of ‘them and us’ to make our society egalitarian society i.e. a society where each and every person has got equal rights, equal wealth and equal status. There were many informal structure for supporting LGBT but there was a need of something more structured which is acceptable. The idea was to shift an orthodox community to an accepting one. It was started by defending the community and activism and ended up spreading awareness about existence of gay community in India. It aimed to be an agent of the development and progress which will lead to a society where LGBT are accepted. The ultimate goal of this magazine was to give a voice to gay people.