A tale of two countries: Nigeria, India and LGBTI rights
Both India and Nigeria have seen fundamental retrenchment of LGBTI rights within a month of each other. Chitra Nagarajan reflects on the way forward.
Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
Both India and Nigeria have seen fundamental retrenchment of LGBTI rights within a month of each other. Chitra Nagarajan reflects on the way forward.
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As the Supreme Court of India considers the review petitions filed against its Dec 11 2013 verdict that re-criminalised same-sex behavior among consenting adults, even when engaged in private, Vikram reviews the options left to us as queer citizens of India.
In this hangout, some of Orinam’s members who are gay, talk about their respective journeys of realizing and accepting their sexuality and their coming out stories.
377 Supreme Court Review Petition Process Explained by Mayur Suresh
IPS clarifies: Dr. Indira Sharma’s View on Homosexuality is Not the Official View
A young gay man from India writes about how he overcame depression and suicidal thoughts
they banned our love, saying we can’t procreate; is that a reason to deny love? do they conceive, every time they mate?
Write to us (prose, poetry, short, long) about what you went through when you learned about the Supreme Court’s Dec 11, 2013, judgement that rendered LGBT people in India criminals again.
“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.