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Silenced Voices: A Transgender Teacher’s Battle for Employment Rights

October 9, 2023
From India’s first Transgender Photojournalist to Begging in Trains for Alms

September 20, 2023
Despite Qualification, Transgender Candidates Find it Hard to Secure a Job

September 12, 2023
Transforming Workplaces: MongoDB’s QueerCollective and the Path to Inclusion

July 24, 2023

From Factory Floor to Lok Adalat: The Journey of A Transgender Judge in West Bengal

June 22, 2019

Sintu Bagui was 14 when she dropped out of school and started working in a plywood factory. For $1 a day, she hauled heavy sheets of wooden board and did assorted cleaning jobs in brutal 12-hour shifts. Her hands were bruised and blistered at the en... Read More...

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Drag Queen Empress Xara: Unplugged

May 7, 2019

Dancer, drag queen and winner of Indian Super Queen pageant 2009, Adam Pasha Tell me a little about your childhood. Were you shy or flamboyant as a kid? I was never shy, always flamboyant. I was very naughty, always getting into trouble. My childhood... Read More...

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‘Where Art Prevails There is No Scope of Violence’ : An Interview with Dancer Patruni Chidananda Sastry

April 30, 2019

Patruni Chidananda Sastry is an Expressionist dancer, LGBTQIA activist and Performance artist from Hyderabad. Patruni has presented many thematic performances and actively spoke about gender rights , gender equality , LGBTQIA+ issues with his ... Read More...

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Mr Gay World India 2019 Suresh Ramdas on Coming Out, Sec 377, and Being Tall Dark and Handsome

March 11, 2019

The pageant Mr. Gay World India has risen to popularity in the past few years. This year, the winner was Suresh Ramdas, a Bengaluru-based techie. We spoke to him about his success, his thoughts on the Section 377 ruling, and his future plans: Wha... Read More...

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Mind Your Own Business: Small Firms Opt Out as India Inc Races to be LGBT-friendly

February 15, 2019

Following India’s September move to scrap a colonial-era ban on gay sex, more and more corporations are opening their doors to LGBT+ people and ushering in policies to make them feel more welcome. But smaller firms across industries - textile hou... Read More...

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Meet the 12 LGBTQ Individuals Featured in Gaylaxy’s Queer Calendar 2019

January 22, 2019

The calendar is a representation and celebration of the various gender and sexual identities of LGBTQ people

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Tracing the Journey and Struggles of ABVA – The Organisation that Laid the Foundation of LGBT Rights in India

December 22, 2018

As the Supreme Court of India has decriminalized adult consensual homosexual sex in India, an attempt to capture ABVA’s struggle for gay rights in India in the twentieth century is in order. The struggle was unique as history was being made and ther... Read More...

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An Interview with Dr. Aijaz Ahmad, a Trans Rights Activist From Kashmir

December 11, 2018

Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund, a researcher, a social worker and a LGBT activist from Srinagar, was in Delhi. We talked to him about his work related to Transgender rights in Kashmir, the difficulties he is facing in raising rights of sexual and gender minori... Read More...

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In Pics: Delhi’s Queer Pride Parade 2018

November 29, 2018

Delhi Queer Pride 2018 was held on Nov 25th. The march, like every year, started from Barakhambha Road. However, this was a special march - it was the first pride march in Delhi after the Supreme Court finally read down Section 377 and decriminali... Read More...

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How ready is India to Provide Inclusive Healthcare and Legal Aid with Queer Citizens being Decriminalized by the Supreme Court?

November 9, 2018

The need of the hour is to ensure access to inclusive health services to enable the LGBTIQA+ communities to recuperate and also prevent future discrimination.

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A Startup by Trans Activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Is Empowering Transgender Community and Providing them Employment

October 12, 2018

Indian transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is now keen to uplift the community and provide value to society by offering professional services and manpower through her startup Kineer.

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Bhubaneswar Gears Up for Pride on 1st September

August 31, 2018

Bhubaneswar Pride is going to be held on 1st September. As part of pride festivities, various events like Film Screenings, Literature Readings and Queer Poetry and Storytelling have already been conducted. We talked to the organiser Bijaya Biswal for... Read More...

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