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        <journal-title>Indian Journal of Social Enquiry</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">IJSE</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">applied</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0974-9012</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Prof Gitanjali Chawla</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJSE1130006</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Acceptance of Homosexual Movies: Analysis of Audience Perception</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kauldhar</surname>
            <given-names>Rachita</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-02">
        <month>09</month>
        <day>02</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>64</fpage>
      <lpage>74</lpage>
      <abstract>
        <p>Cinema is one of the most influential artistic tools that reflects society and
simultaneously impacts it. Indian cinema, one of the largest cinema industries
in the world, has been varied, creative and largely heterosexual. However, the
past decade has witnessed the legalisation of homosexuality in India and
increased representation of homosexual characters in the cinema, creating a
positive social change and greatly contrasting the long existing social prejudices
towards homosexuality.
This research focuses on how homosexual movies have been received by
audience of various age groups. The study was conducted on a sample of 100
respondents belonging to various age groups, through an online survey. A
positive variation in the reception of homosexual movies was noted among the
respondents. The findings showed that representation in cinema and
legalisation of homosexuality was one of the most credited factors for variation
in the audience reception of homosexual movies.</p>
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        <kwd>Cinema</kwd>
        <kwd>Heterosexual</kwd>
        <kwd>Homosexual</kwd>
        <kwd>Audience</kwd>
        <kwd>Perception</kwd>
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