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Recognition of Relationships...Photo Credit: QGraphy & Avinash Singh

State-conferred Legitimacy: On Pakistan’s Hindu Marriage Bill & India’s IPC Section 377

February 18, 2016

The struggle by the Hindu religious minority of Pakistan has similarities and differences with the Indian LGBTIQ sexuality and gender minorities' ongoing fight for equal recognition of their relationships.

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Supreme Court Panel Recommends Measures to Protect Consenting Adult Sex-Workers

February 15, 2016

A Supreme Court Panel set up in 2011 to protect the rights of sex workers and improve their working conditions, has recommended that Police must not interfere o... Read More...

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(३७७ के) ‘गमन’ की आशा! (संपादकीय)

February 5, 2016

संघर्ष: धीमा, मगर निरंतर ! तस्वीर: चैतन्य चापेकर; सौजन्य: QGraphy २ फरवरी २०१६ को भारतीय उच्चतम न्यायलय ने नाज़ फ़ौंडेशन व अन्य प्रार्थाकों द्वारा पेश की गई उपच... Read More...

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Supreme Court Admits Curative Petition on Section 377, Refers it to 5 Judge Bench

February 2, 2016

In a huge victory for LGBT Rights, Supreme Court referred the curative petition on Section 377 to a larger 5 judge constitutional bench. Mr. Kapil Sibal appeare... Read More...

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The 377 Battle: The Court Awakens

February 1, 2016

Will the Supreme Court use the curative power to rectify its mistake in 2013 where it completely ignored reams of evidence placed before it on the way in which Section 377 impacts the LGBT community?

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Whatever the Courts Decide, This Isn’t The End of the Road

January 31, 2016

This isn’t our ‘last hope’. It cannot be, considering how far we have come in just a few decades, despite legislative inaction and judicial dalliance.

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Decoding 377

January 30, 2016

If social change needs to be initiated through a change in the law, which definitely provides more security to the members of the queer community, then so be it.

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A Letter from Queer India, Supporters and Allies

January 30, 2016

“Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come”. Equality, of gender, sexuality, between classes and castes, across regions and languages is the idea whose time has come!

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Poem: We Aren’t Going Back!

January 29, 2016

It’s high time, Open the door, now; Let us in, we aren’t going back; We aren’t going back!

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Supreme Court to take up Curative Petition on Sec 377 on Feb 2nd

January 28, 2016

Supreme Court of India to take up the curative petition on Section 377 on Feb 2

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Your Smile, My Tail

January 13, 2016

When Hanuman returned from Lanka with a burned tail, and recounted his adventures, many monkeys of Kishkinda burst out laughing. “So, you got your tail burned t... Read More...

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Sign Online Petition Urging PM Modi to Fulfill His Constitutional Responsibility by Repealing Section 377

December 11, 2015

It is your responsibility as the Prime Minister to lessen popular prejudice, allow for free expression of ideas and repeal criminal laws which hamper and impede the right to free expression of millions of LGBT Indians.

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