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Section 377 – Announcement
Sec 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) criminalizes same-sex behavior. In a huge setback to LGBT rights, The Supreme court of India on Dec 11th declared it is constitutional and can only be changed by the Indian parliament.
Banker murder in Chennai: misreporting of child sexual abuse by Times of India
ToI article “Banker murdered by gay lovers” (Chennai ed. Oct 21, 2013) misleadingly reports young men sexually abused as children by adult man as “gay lovers”
Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaf: A Short Note
“Marz, ya Lat”: in her Urdu short story Lihaf (The Quilt) written in the 1940s, Ismat Chugtai conceptualized same-sex desire as both medical condition and as excessive habit, notions that co-existed in the colonial India of her time.
Gujarat’s First LGBT Pride a success: Surat October 6, 2013
Gujarat’s first LGBT Pride will be held in Surat on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Read post for details.
#VIBGYOR: Queering the Rainbow
Prashanth Ashok’s blogposts on the significance of the rainbow motif, long associated with the LGBT movement. This series was part of the Chennai Bloggers’ Club hashtag #VIBGYOR, a one-week series of posts Sept 1-7, 2013.
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To Raghu, with love
An Orinam reader reflects on the suicide of his cousin brother.
(FEMME)IFESTO
Alok Vaid-Menon’s poem celebrates male femmeness.
Yenn Pudhu Kanavu
என் புதுக்கனவு (Yenn Pudhu Kanavu: My New Dream) podcast of poem by Bessimon
Call for EOI: SAHRA India West Zone Steering Committee
South Asian Human Rights Association for Marginalised Sexualities & Genders (SAHRA) seeks expressions of interest from those able to represent the west zone of India: Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.