![]() ![]() A Google search confirmed their suspicions and showed that the exact wording of the profiles was copied and pasted across several other dating sites. Reeta spoke with another LGBT+ Asian named Keith who was having the same experience with the service. But after 11 months of excuses, Reeta received just two dating profiles – none of them matches, and none of them credible. Shah claimed to have 2,400 people signed up to the service in India, with a total of 3,700 clients globally. ‘Psychotic’ Arranged Marriage Bureau founder played on LGBT+ clients’ vulnerabilities. “ So there’s that personal touch, because they get to know you and they have a view of who they can match you with… it really struck a personal and emotional chord for me.” I haven’t had that family support for coming up to 14 years. “ impressed me because she talked about the fact that they were acting sort of on behalf of parents, which I think is really beautiful, because so many of us don’t have that family support, including me. Having been disowned by her conservative Punjabi family, she longed to regain that cultural connection with a partner.Īlthough initially sceptical, she was reassured by Shah’s apparent sincerity and her promise that the Bureau would take on the traditional matchmaking role of parents. Reeta signed up to the dating service herself last year looking for longterm love. “Because the last thing I want is for anybody else to sign up to the service and to go through that experience.” And your organisation will be closed down. And if this is something you choose to do, then you will be outed for it. We’re not disparate, vulnerable people around the world that can be capitalised upon. “What I would like this documentary to do is show that we are a community, we have a lot of clout. “ It completely underestimates the power that we have globally. “It shows a complete and total disrespect for our community,” Reeta told PinkNews. The scam was uncovered in a new VICE documentary by Reeta Loi, an LGBT+ activist, artist and founder of Gaysians. The many testimonials of happy couples are all fake the profiles of potential love interests are replicated hundreds of times across the internet and the Bureau’s office address is actually just a bus stop in Delhi. There’s just one problem – there’s not a single piece of evidence it actually exists. ![]()
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