UN Launches India’s First Music Video For Gay Rights
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday launched the first ever Bollywood-style UN music video at a press conference in M... Read More...
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UN To Launch Music Video For Gay Rights Awareness In India
United Nations is releasing its first Bollywood-style music video to raise awareness about gay rights in India. The video features a single, her debut, by Cel... Read More...
Gay Rights Activist Harish Iyer In Celebrity Campaign For Aam Aadmi Party
Harish Iyer campaigning for AAP
Queer rights activist Harish Iyer joined the Aam Aadmi Party campaign in Mumbai on Monday, joining other celebrities donning... Read More...
In And Out Of The Closet In Conservative India
When you ask people what freedom means to them you will probably get many different answers. This is because the answer to that question changes from time to ... Read More...
AAP’s Mumbai Manifesto: “If Voted To Power Will Decriminalize Section 377”
PTI Photo by Kamal Kishore
After drawing enough heat from India’s LGBT community as well as media for not including gay rights in their national manifesto, Aa... Read More...
Queer Rights And Aam Aadmi Party: The Way Forward
PTI Photo by Kamal Kishore
My interaction with the Aam Aadmi Party began soon after its formation late in 2012. My appreciation of the party, however, came gr... Read More...
Gay Rights Activist Harish Iyer Joins AAP, Willing To Contest Elections
The gay community in India seem to be warming up to Aam Aadmi Party, with Harish Iyer being the latest gay activist to join the party. Earlier Onir, who is th... Read More...
If Queer Was A Religion
Faith (Photo by Suchandra Das)
You know what, we should make a religion out of it. That’s the language they understand. They give respect to the unreasonable ... Read More...
Report On Queer Rights In Nepal Says Despite Advances, More Needs To Be Done
Picture from Gai Jatra Pride Festival Nepal
Nepal has undertaken path breaking steps in the areas of queer justice and empowerment in the subcontinent, but mo... Read More...
Ugandan President To Sign Anti-Gay Laws Despite International Criticism
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni (Photo: MEHDI TAAMALLAH/AFP/Getty Images)
Despite criticism and disgust across the globe, Ugandan President Yoweri Museven... Read More...
IIT Bombay E-Cell Launches Drive To Sensitize College Youth On LGBT Issues
The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay has launched a campaign titled “Iota377” to sensitize college-going youth about the rights and issues of the LGBT co... Read More...
India Votes in Favour of Lesbian Medical Organisation getting Special Consultative Status
In a historic vote in the UN today, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations recommended special consultative status to an Australian Lesbian medical org... Read More...