Crowdfunding for Trans Community of Kashmir
Sonzal Welfare Trust is working towards providing 150 families with dry ration kits to enable them to survive for the next two months.
Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund
Conversion Therapy Experience of a Kashmiri Lesbian
After Hibba came out to her parents, she was forcibly taken to a local faith healer to exorcise the spirit of homosexuality.
He chanted many Holy vers... Read More...
What it is like to be a Lesbian in Kashmir
The most critical problem facing lesbians in Kashmir is the way society simply refuses to recognize them and tries to silence their existence.
Islam and Homosexuality : Despite Popular Perception, Quran Does Not Proscribe Gays
The closest the Qur’an comes to directly addressing homosexual people is the phrase “men who are not in need of women or have no sexual guile before women.” The Qur’an presents this phrase descriptively in neutral tone, not linked to denunciation or legal proscription.
Transgender Rights in Islam
Islamic scholars have traditionally acknowledged that Allah created two genders and also created people who cannot be categorized through a binary construction of gender.
The Clandestine Identity of LGBT Kashmiris
Photo: Prasenjit Chaudhary/QGraphy
LGBT community of Kashmir continues to remain hidden and living an invisible life. Speculation as to why this population is... Read More...
Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund
Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund is a LGBT activist from Kashmir. He is the founder and Chairperson of Sonzal Welfare Trust that works for the welfare of gender and sexual minorities in the state of J&K, and can be reached at help.humanity@riseup.net