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News and Views 74 postsQueer News from all over the globe. This sections also contains our views and opinions on latest happenings and reviews of everything Queer.
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- R.I.P. Anil/Mariya
- President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage
- Asking the Right Question
- Best Businesses to Work in 2012
- Call for entries: Chennai Queer Film Festival 2012
- IBN7 Zindagi Live feature on mothers of gay and lesbian children
- Video: I am Trans
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: full transcript 2012
- Dr. Gurvinder Kalra on Coming Out post-377
- Fiction: Dusk
- Thanking Anjali
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry takes a stand on homosexuality
- Sexual Orientation Change Efforts by Medical Professionals in India
- Rajib’s Coming Out Story
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Mar 13-14-15, 2012
- Dharun and Ravi: Two Different Worlds
- Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 29 2012
- Gay and Guilty?
- How to Tell A Trans Person They are Beautiful
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 28 2012
- Review: “8″ Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt
- My Son is like Krishna!
- Urgent: Information required for 377 Case – Data or Studies on LGBT People in India
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 28, 29 and Mar 1, 2012
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 23 2012
- From 2008: Prime Minister’s Statement on Homosexuality
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 22 2012
- Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2012
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 15 2012
- Supreme Court hearings on Naz: Feb 13 2012
- Sec 377 Update: British made gay sex crime says SC!
- How Is Homosexuality Against Nature? Asks Supreme Court of India
- California Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional, Court rules!
- Transgenders in church and state: Bharathi and Anu
- Anandaroopa receives US Secretary of State Award for LGBT volunteerism in Chennai
- Poem: my butch
- Fundraiser faces Fundie: a report of homophobia in Mumbai
- without any window of His own: a video from Bangladesh
- 6 PM Curfew
- Indecent Exposure
- Dhotis and Pants Only!
- Me, a feminist man
- DesiGirl says It Gets Better
- Signs of Chennai #1
- The Ex-files
- Congratulations, Narthaki Nataraj!
- Why I Do What I Do
- An LGBT archive in India
- Media Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanetham Pillay Publishes Groundbreaking Report On Violence Against LGBTI People
- Afsana, Bina, Mukti, Sangita, Sunita: our heroes too!
- gender meanders
- Indian Transgender Rights Activists talk about Love and Relationships
- Pune’s first Pride March: Sunday Dec 11, 2011
- Hillary Clinton cites Naz judgement in historic UN Human Rights address, announces global equality fund for LGBTs
- Dr. Anoop Gupta helps pre-op transsexual store sperm, same-sex couples have babies through surrogacy
- A critique of Pride: more responses
- A critique of Pride
- Bangalore’s brush with homophobia on the night of the Gay Pride 2011
- Winning entries: Bengaluru International Queer Pride Photography contest 2011
- Interview: Sri Lankan activist Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
- Survey of IT professionals in Chennai, LGBT and out in the workplace
- Tamil Wikipedia Media Contest: A unique Opportunity for the LGBT Community
- Nov 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
- It Gets Better – Cummins Inc, USA
- Protest transphobia from Railway Protection Force (Gujarat)
- Supreme court to hear 377 Case on Tuesday, 08 November 2011
- Transgender Children
- Sahodaran 2012 calendar launch
- It Gets Better – Sarav Chidambaram
- Poll: Orinam.net – The New Look?
- Homophobia: An experience at Hotel Accord, Chennai
- End Sexual Apartheid: Justice Michael Kirby
- Bangalore Pride: Photo contest
- Poem: We Adapt
- Spoken Word : Amma
- Spoken Word: The Story Of Firefly And Butterfly
- Poem: Reorient Ourseleves
- Spoken Word: To Catch Just One Tear
- Poem: Guilt
- Poem: Getting Brave
- Conversations with Parents
- Poem: Coming Out
- Poem: Absence of Walls
- Sensitizing panchayat leaders to end homophobia and transphobia: Lotus Sangam,Tamil Nadu
- Srishti: new group in Madurai, Tamil Nadu
- Brenda’s letter to her parents [coming out as trans]
- LGBT Voices: Report of a panel discussion held during Chennai Pride 2011
- Public health benefits of same-sex marriage [Buffie 2011, American Journal of Public Health]
- Junior Vikatan coverage of Chennai protests against Azad
- Press Statement: Mental Health Professionals criticize Union Health Minister’s Statement on Homosexuality
- Chennai protests Health Minister Azad’s homophobic remarks, July 5, 2011
- My feelings at the LGBT parents’ meet in Chennai, by Muthukumar
- Poem: Despair and Hope
- Media Workshop and Press Meet, Chennai: May 27-28, 2011
- Chennai Pride 2011: Press Meet Excerpt
- The TV9 Debacle
- Brihannala By Aniruddhan Vasudevan
- The TV9 debacle
- ParallelLines: for freedom to talk, discuss rights
- Lesbian and Gay Activism in New Delhi: Naisargi Dave’s Ph.D. dissertation
- From Khush List to GayBombay: Virtual Webs of Real People
- Seeking writers for Queer Ink anthology of LGBT Indian writing
- Mental Health Professionals oppose Criminalization of Homosexuality
- Academics Support Delhi High Court Decision in Section 377 Case
- Parents say 377 destroys families
- YaliniDream in Chennai (2011)
- My Feelings As A Mother
- Telling Our Stories
- 2009 Chennai Rainbow Coalition Highlights
- Queering (my) Bharatanatyam
- Yet Another Tale Of Love
- Fiction : Something Stupid
- Ganesh’s Coming Out Story
- Velu’s Coming Out Story
- Shri’s Coming Out Story
- Reforming Macaulay
- Poem : Symbols
- From the closet to the Community – Part 1
- On Faith and Homosexuality
- A Mother’s Take On Handling Extended Family’s Reaction
- A Father’s Response – On Facing Society, Pride, The Marriage Question
- Experiences Of A Mother When Her Gay Son Comes Out
- Like the confluence of the tungA and bhadrA rivers
- Vijay’s Coming Out Story
- Anil’s Coming Out Story
- Menon’s Coming Out Story
- Felix’s Coming Out Story
- Sundar’s Coming Out Story
- Praveen’s Coming Out Story
- Queering Gender
- From Academia to America
- Aniruddhan’s Coming Out Story
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