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When a picture speaks a thousand words

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. But some pictures go beyond words; they carry certain emotions that strike a chord with their audiences. Aritra’s photo project ‘Everyone Dies Grey – Queer days through my lens’ precisely does that. Exhib... Read More...

Unabashed Beauty: Speaking to Sushant Divgikar

At the Mr Gay World pageant in Rome this year, India's Sushant Divgikar packed in quite a powerful performance. He won four sub-awards at the contest, including People's Choice Award, and was placed in the Top 10 Sushant Divgikar (Photo: Beate A ... Read More...

2013: What It Meant For LGBT India

While 2013 started off as a relatively calm and peaceful year for the LGBT community in India, it was rudely shaken into action by December after a retrograde ruling by the Supreme Court that made homosexuality criminal again. A look at the major e... Read More...
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Cinema Outside The Closet

Young filmmakers are bringing queer issues to the fore through their movies, but there are challenges galore; writes Dhrubo Jyoti When Amitava Sarkar wrote a story in 2004-05 from her experiences, she found that there were no films that talked abo... Read More...
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The Queer Agenda

  Sukhdeep Singh explores how queer people across India are coming together for things apart from pride parades and film festivals When Aayush came out to his neighbour, he was gifted a queer fiction book, which generated the hunger and curi... Read More...
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Farsi: A Lost Language of Gay Delhi

Dr. Himadri Roy provides interesting insights into how the mode of communication of LGBTs in Delhi changed between 70s and 90s Farsi is supposed to be the communication code amongst the LGBT community of Delhi. It is said to have originated dur... Read More...
Enough is ENough

Broken Bodies, Resilient Souls

Sexual minorities have to face violence at multiple fronts and the Govt. chose to look away by not including recommendations of Justice Verma Committee report, writes Sukhdeep Singh Madhu, a trans-sexual activist in Kolkata was on her way to meet ... Read More...
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2012: A Mixed Year For India

Sukhdeep Singh reviews what the year 2012 meant for India 2012 has been a mixed year for India’s LGBTs. On a lighter note, we know that the world didn’t end as it was supposed to, but we also know that neither has the homophobia. The year began on... Read More...
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2012 – The Year of Gay Rights

2012 is going to be remembered as the year of gay civil rights, writes Bharathi People said when 2012 started that the world is going to end this year. But it was the hate mongers world that ended this year. 2012 is going to go down in history as ... Read More...