The objective of the festival continues to mainstream the LGBTQ community and project them as 'normal' human beings who have the capacity to love and live with dignity.
KASHISH Pride Film Festival, 2010[10] was held between 22 and 25 April 2010, spread across two venues in Mumbai – one in the city and one in the suburbs.
The films explored the diverse realities, complexities, joys and sorrows that make up the global queer experience.
The advisory board of the festival is composed of eminent personalities like Aruna Raje Patil, Dolly Thakore, Meghna Ghai Puri, Onir, Renuka Shahane, Roy Wadia and Viveck Vaswani.
In the past years Nandini Sardesai, Shernaz Patel and Jenni Olson (USA) also served on the advisory board.
Some of the chief guests and guests of honour at the festival have been Sir Ian McKellen, Deepa Mehta, Sonam Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Konkana Sen Sharma, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajkumar Rao, Swara Bhaskar, Divya Dutta, Pratik Gandhi, Ranveer Brar, Shalmali, Pooja Bhatt, Nisa Godrej, Anupam Kher, Kunal Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Nandita Das, Sai Paranjpye, Kabir Bedi, Kalpana Lajmi, Zeenat Aman, Moushumi Chatterjee, Onir, Tanuja Chandra, Neeraj Ghaywan, Sanjay Suri, Neelam Kothari, Rajeshwari Sachdeva, Varun Badola, Shweta Kawatra, Varun Grover, Shalmali_Kholgade, Rekha Bhardwaj, Simone Singh, Sona Mohapatra, Anant Mahadevan, Dalip Tahil, Shaina NC, Aleque Padamsee, Apurva Asrani, Suchitra Pillai-Malik, Purab Kohli, Adhuna Bhabani, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and Sushant Divgikar.
KASHISH Pride Film Festival has, in its attempt to mainstream queer visibility, engages a jury panel to judge the award categories.
The jury has consisted of actors, directors, critics, theater and media personalities and festival curators from India and abroad.