Who’s this guy? Queer readers in India and all over the world, know this. We lost another stalwart and role model. He was one of the computer pioneers, the doyen of word processing software in the 80’s. Son of a fiddle-playing farmer Bruce Wayne Bastian was born on March 23, 1948, in Twin Falls, Idaho. […]
Thailand is poised to become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage after the Senate approved a marriage equality bill on Tuesday, 18 June. The bill’s passage is heralded as a monumental step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the region. The Senate voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bill, with 130 senators […]
Why do we always want to suppress the minority? Why on earth we cannot accept someone because his/her sexuality is different from majority? We all are humans with a heart to care for every single living entity. A parade to mark the existence of everyone and to request for the respect of everyone despite one’s […]
“Why is it that as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two man holding guns than holding hands?” These words of Ernest J. Gaines emphasise the gay pride. As we all know that the Month of June is observed as the pride month for LGBTQ, Lesbian gay bisexual transgender and Queer community. In 1970 […]
A 500 metre rainbow flag to be carried by several women from villages of Bihar, is expected to be one of the main attractions of a procession that celebrates the diversity and range of sexual identities in Bihar. It’s possible that the Bihar Gaurav March (Bihar Pride Parade) may have far more heterosexual than LGBTIQ […]
DHAKA – Two of Bangladesh’s leading LGBT activists, who were hacked to death over three years ago, have received justice at last. Eight Islamist extremists from a banned group were charged by Bangladesh police on Sunday (May 12) for the 2016 murders of two prominent gay rights activists. Earlier, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) […]
Jude Law says that it’s high time we get used to gay role models for children — he has just been cast as Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and he’s meeting J.K. Rowling. “She makes a great effort to make you feel at ease when you know you’re in the presence […]
New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) Gay sex among consenting adults is not a criminal offence, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday, holding that part of a 158-year-old colonial law that criminalised it, violated the constitutional right to equality and dignity. The top court decriminalised part of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that […]
New Delhi: Lawyers appearing for fundamentalist faith-based organizations spared no effort to display the rampant homophobic fantasies of their clients as they argued against the repeal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. In fact, their arguments seemed to indicate that almost every male in India is a repressed homosexual and that if the […]
Reshma Prasad, Bihar’s best known transgender activist, has mooted a proposal that TGs be deployed as security guards in Observation and Special homes run under the JJ Act. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar went on to ask officials to figure out if transgender persons (read transwomen) could serve as security guards at remand homes, short stay […]
While the Supreme Court continues to hear arguments for the reading down of the archaic Section 377 of the Indian penal code, the Narendra Modi government has chosen to sit on the fence. It has left it to the “wisdom” of the Supreme Court the question whether consensual non-heterosexual relations should be decriminalised. “That so […]
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has changed the composition of the five-judge constitution bench that will examine the legal validity of section 377 of the penal code, a Victorian-era law that effectively criminalizes non-heterosexual relationships, among other types of ‘carnal intercourse against nature’. The question before the court is, whether Article 377 of the […]
