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• LGBT+ (South Asia)

  ‘Joyland’ crosses the barbed wire between India and Pakistan

  14 July 2023, by MODI Chintan Girish

  Indian audiences are connecting with director Saim Sadiq’s acclaimed, queer-affirming Pakistani film, briefly banned in its home country
  n the evening of 8 June, the Pakistani director Saim Sadiq’s film Joyland was screened at Liberty Cinema in Mumbai as part of the 14^th Kashish Mumbai (…)

• LGBT+ (South Asia)

  India and Pakistan Need to Move Beyond Symbolism When it Comes to Trans Rights

  7 August 2018, by PAL Sumedha

  On July 30, India’s Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi offered an ‘apology’ for using the term “other ones” while referring to transgender persons in the nation.

  After having sniggered, nervously chuckled and dehumanised the community, the minister stated that she was embarrassed by her “own lack of knowledge”.

  In addition to her reaction, other parliamentarians thumped and laughed in parliament while discussing the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and (...)