How I dealt with depression and suicidal thoughts
A young gay man from India writes about how he overcame depression and suicidal thoughts
Poem: love or hate?
they banned our love, saying we can’t procreate; is that a reason to deny love? do they conceive, every time they mate?
A Bad Day for Law and Love: writing 11-12-13
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.
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.
India’s LGBT activism history: early 1990s
A photograph, video interview and EPW article summarizing the early days of India’s LGBT activism, led by AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan, against policy harassment and Section 377, the sodomy law.
Free & Equal: Global Campaign for LGBT Equality launched by UN
On July 26, 2013, The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cape Town, South Africa, launched Free & Equal, an unprecedented global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.