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Interesting article written in 2003 by Sandip Roy, former editor of Trikone Magazine, on how LGBT Indians and other South Asians have been using the internet to socialize, organize, and form communities. Excerpts can be read online as part of the book Mobile cultures: new media in queer Asia By Chris Berry, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue from Duke University Press.
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Ian Parker, writing for the New Yorker, has an absolutely…
A report on Chennai Pride 2011 event “Facing the media”.Organized by Asma, this workshop offered guidelines to the LGBT community on how to deal with the media.
Raj Rao reads poetry in Chennai on Dec 14 and 15, courtesy Prakriti Foundation.
Dr. Anoop Gupta, medical director, Delhi IVF Fertility Research Centre, has pioneered in-vitro fertilization in the country, giving birth to the first test-tube baby in 1994. On Dec 5, 2011, Dr. Gupta was again in the news for helping a pre-operative male-to-female transexual store sperm prior to surgery, in order to enable future options of having a child through surrogacy.
A four-hour theatre workshop for LGBTIQA+ people in Chennai on Sunday May 6, 2018.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made reference to the Naz judgement and the tenet of inclusiveness as an underlying theme of the Indian constitution in her historic address on LGBT rights at the United Nations.
