6 Things Straight Cousins Can Do To Support Their Queer Cousins
6 things straight cousins can do to support their queer cousins
Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2013
This year, Orinam is pleased to bring you Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2013, a collaborative effort between Orinam and Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, with the support of other local collectives. The festival will be held on three evenings from July 11-13, 2013, and will showcase Indian and international feature films, shorts and documentaries. We invite entries for screening at the event. Entries will be reviewed by a panel, and selections notified by 15 May 2013.
Orinam’s Quilt (OQ3) meeting Feb 23, 2013: love and romance
Orinam’s Quilt, the reading group of Orinam, meets at Zha…
Gender-Sexuality-Violence: panel discussion in Chennai, Feb 22, 2013
Film screening and panel discussion on gender, sexuality and violence on Friday Feb 22, 2013, as part of Prajnya’s film festival on gender violence at Goethe-Institut, Chennai.
Queering Kamal Haasan
Some of his roles might have offended the LGBT community but Kamal Haasan’s career conveys a bigger message, writes Vishnu Ramakrishnan.
Vishwaroopam: a queer critique
A movie like Vishwaroopam takes us even farther back in its retrogressive portrayal of queer masculinity as deviance. Such portrayal by a mass hero will only reinforce the already prevalent hatred and prejudice against the much maligned sexual and gender minorities.
Time to drop B and T from LGBT: Biphobic and Transphobic Piece on Hyderabad Pride
L.Ramakrishnan and Vijay Mogli respond to Dean William’s Biphobic and Transphobic piece on Hyderabad Pride
Hyderabad (re)makes history with pride
Hyderabad celebrated its first Queer Pride on February 3, 2013. Some photographs, courtesy Smruthi Narayan, and to links to coverage from TV and print media.
Justice Verma Committee report on rape laws addresses sexuality concerns
Text of Justice Verma Committee report [downloadable pdf], highlights including proposed amendments, and the Committee’s observations on the need for decriminalizing homosexuality and imparting sexuality education.
Aniruddhan Vasudevan in conversation with The Hindu
Margazhi conversation with Aniruddhan Vasudevan: Bharatanatyam dancer and LGBT activist: The Hindu