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The Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk 2023 served as a reminder to recognise with dignity and respect, every way of loving, living, and existing.
The Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk returned last Sunday once again, with love, resistance, pride, and a flourish of beautiful colours and artful posters. The (…)
The collapse of a deep Meitei–Kuki friendship shows how Manipur’s nascent queer movement is fraying, threatening its hard-won gains in the violence-torn Indian state
The ongoing civil war in Manipur, in India’s Northeast, had been raging for three months when I called my friend Bom in July. (…)
The actor has a record of posting back-to-back hits, but this regressive film may turn out to be his biggest one yet.
By 2019, Ayushmann Khurrana had been working for more than seven years and had delivered seven consecutive hits in a span of three years. This included monsters like Andhadhun (…)
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the concerted effort by the Muslim rightwing in Kerala — including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and some Muslim-run websites — to ridicule, vilify, denigrate and demonise Muslims who are (…)
Compared to Bollywood’s brash, tone-deaf and stereotypical offerings, South India is producing more nuanced queer films. But it is not enough, say critics.
In the 2019 Tamil film Super Deluxe, Rasukutty’s friends mock his transwoman father, Shilpa. “That’s your dad? Why is he wearing a sari?” (…)
As we explore the themes around labor and migration this month, we speak to Swetha about economic and employment challenges and strides made by trans people in these areas.
Swetha let’s begin by talking about your own employment experiences and how you eventually came to found your own (…)
The court was hearing the petition of a trans person who had her passport cancelled and was unable to get a new one issued for want of a gender reassignment surgery certificate.
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday, April 11, observed that the provisions of the Passport Rules, 1980, (…)
D’Souza’s legacy as an activist far outstrips the treatment it receives in the film ‘My Brother… Nikhil’.
June 2021 will mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, a sobering reality in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic. While the Indian variant of the coronavirus continues (…)
The Delhi High Court is hearing a PIL that seeks marriage rights for the gay community under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.
New Delhi: Same-sex marriages are neither a part of “our culture” nor a part of the law, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Delhi High Court Monday, opposing a (…)
Orissa HC also extends protection to the ’woman partner’ in the relationship under the domestic violence law to secure her rights in case of a separation.
New Delhi: In a first, the Orissa High Court has allowed a same-sex couple to have a live-in relationship, and also extended protection of (…)
Assam becomes the seventh state in the country to have such a welfare board.
Guwahati: A six-member transgender welfare board has been set up by the Assam government and members from the state’s transgender community have now been incorporated into the welfare board. This was confirmed by a (…)
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019. These two legislations, which have been bought into Parliament this Winter Session, are rarely spoken of in the same breath. But they should be. Both these Bills have been adopted by the Parliament (…)
Trans community rejects new law
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, was moved in the Rajya Sabha by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot on November 20, globally recognised as Transgender Day of Remembrance for all those murdered as a result of (…)
The new version of the Transgender Rights Bill is undeniably an improvement over its predecessors. It has a comparatively expansive definition of the term ‘transgender’, and has done away with problematic provisions requiring a screening process and criminalising begging. Nevertheless, the new (…)
Indian diplomats are hesitating between cautious promotion of LGBT rights at the UN level, or continuing their abstention on the issue when it is raised in international forums. More pressure from LGBT groups and other progressives could push the country towards a more constructive position in (…)
Though LGBT voter numbers are unlikely to change the electoral outcome, CPI(M) candidate Kaninika Bose (Ghosh) made time to meet members of the queer community.
Kolkata: Around twenty people have assembled on a hot Sunday afternoon inside the Lokayat Samaj Trust auditorium at Ripon Street in (…)
A landmark ruling legalised gay sex in the country in 2018, yet the LGBT community still face stigma and violence
When India’s supreme court announced it was legalising gay sex, people hugged in twos and threes on the lawns outside the Delhi courthouse. They draped themselves in rainbow flags (…)
Art work by Katerina Gribkoff
In four separate and combined judgments on September 6, 2018, in the Navtej Singh Johar case a constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India ruled that the section 377 of Indian Penal Code (a colonial era provision from 1860) was discriminatory to the extent (…)
Radical Socialist welcomes the Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 IPC. This is an important victory for the LGBTIQH community in India. We do not see the victory as a gift from the judiciary, but as the result of decades of battles, on the ground, in grassroots organising, as well as in (…)
No epic war – and the victorious struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in India is certainly one – is complete without a cast of characters who bring to the battlefield qualities such as heroism and cowardice, innocence and guile, loyalty and treachery.
Homosexual relations were criminalised in India for (…)
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