With the decriminalization of homosexuality in 2018, it was taken for granted that India’s largely anti-LGBT climate would gradually change itself. Although the country has taken baby steps towards progress, […]
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“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” – Marsha P. Johnson Pride Month has been celebrated across the globe for several decades now. Every year
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The taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene hangs like a dark cloud above India’s head. Sedimentation of generations’ worth of myth, superstition and a general dearth of awareness, specifically in the country’s
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Even today, conversion therapy is largely used on queer people to, as the urban lingo goes, ‘pray the gay away.’ Quite simply put, ‘queer conversion therapies’ are pseudoscientific practices used
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For the past few months now, Parvathi’s life has been a flurry of arbitrary violence. (Al Jazeera)The nationwide lockdown across India has forced the country to shut their doors to
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Nearly 80 years after the demise of the genre, the lesbian pulp fiction phenomenon that gripped the mid-20th century seems now both ridiculous and sad. The overbearing melodrama of the
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The group had initially emerged as a collective protest against the French law supporting same-sex marriage in the year 2012. In the first year, about 200,000 people gathered to protest
For several months now, a strange stillness seems to have gripped the red-light areas in India. While the maxi-clad women still hang about doors, ready to beckon customers in, their
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