Sunil Babu Pant recently made history as the first openly gay member of Nepal’s Parliament, and is also the founder of Blue Diamond Society (BDS) – now a network of several organizations working on HIV/AIDS, human rights and social justice with sexual gender minorities in Nepal.
Sunil Babu Pant has played a key role in the decision of Nepal's Supreme Court ordering their government to extend equal protections under the law to their gay, lesbian, transgender and intersex people in 2007.