Love conquers it all at the Love Matters Open Mic Session ‘Let’s Talk About Us’

Event held at Bandra’s hip and cool QTube Café

Mumbai, February 16, 2017 Love Matters , India’s first bilingual website dedicated to love, sexuality and relationships  organized a one of its kind Open mic session on Valentine day in Mumbai’s quiet but hip QTube Café in Bandra. The event saw a jam packed venue where many came forward to share their tryst with love, sexuality or identity, their take on relationships, family, and society. The gathering was of young and old people, many came with their parents to taste the non judgmental and open minded session.

"We organized this open mic session as a true free speech event for young Mumbaikars to come together and have an opportunity to have frank and open conversations on love, sexuality and relationships.” Vithika Yadav, RNW Head-India, Love Matters India.

Love Matters opened its doors for everyone and the differences of Mumbai walked in, slightly unsure and then they took to the stage, and all those differences dissolved to form, what united them for that moment forming a road of open dialogue. With an opportunity to share openly, people poured their hearts out; what they felt about love, lessons they have learnt on the way, good and bad both, how they feel towards every individual deserving a fair chance to love who they want, to freely talking about their sexuality, about society’s perception, attitude and acceptance of every individual.

"The idea behind an open-mic event with young people is to shed all the judgement around different sexuality and preferences. We don't want the society to label someone. We want everyone to come together and hear each other patiently" Roshan Kokane, web editor for Love Matters India.

Love Matters India is moving towards changing how people perceive and are perceived by others, they want to bridge the gap that creates this difference through respectful dialogues and ‘Let’s Talk About Us’ the open mic session in Mumbai was a step towards creating that platform.