Sunil Babu Pant is the first openly

Coming out

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 gay

Gay

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 politician in Nepal

Nepal

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. He is one of five members from the CPN(U)

Communist Party of Nepal (United)

Communist Party of Nepal was a political party in Nepal. In 1991, after the first general election, through the merger of Communist Party of Nepal , Communist Party of Nepal and Communist Party of Nepal...

 in the constituent assembly

Nepalese Constituent Assembly

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, and is also head of the Blue Diamond Society

Blue Diamond Society

The Blue Diamond Society is an LGBT rights organization in Nepal. It was organized in 2001 to oppose the conservative Hindu-oriented laws against homosexuality in the now-former Kingdom...

, the only gay rights group in Nepal. And at the meeting for The Yogyakarta Principles held in November 2006, he was one of 29 experts.

He also heads an LGBT-positive travel agency, Pink Mountains, which provides honeymoon packages for LGBT tourists from abroad.

External links

• Pink Mountain, the travel agency started by Pant