California Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional, Court rules!
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.
Transgenders in church and state: Bharathi and Anu
Transwomen Anu (Bangalore) and Bharathi (Chennai) have made inroads into government and religious institutions in southern India.
Anandaroopa receives US Secretary of State Award for LGBT volunteerism in Chennai
Anandaroopa was honored in Dec 2011 with a US Secretary of State volunteerism award for his contributions to LGBT rights and visibility in Chennai.
Fundraiser faces Fundie: a report of homophobia in Mumbai
Ed: This report by Pallav describes an incident at the…
DesiGirl says It Gets Better
A simple yet powerful It Gets Better video by Destiny aka DesiGirl58.
Why I Do What I Do
Pramada Menon writes about her 20-year journey into queer activism and breaking the silence around gender and sexuality. The article has been reproduced with permission from TARSHI’s magazine In Plainspeak.
An LGBT archive in India
The LGBT ‘movement’ in india is about 15+ years old, has spread beyond the handful of metro cities, is staggering in its diversity of peoples who are accommodated within, and, the frequency of LGBT related events and happening around the country is increasing exponentially. Also, certain LGBT experiences which were ubiquitous a couple of decades ago, have all but disappeared. Hence it might be time to start thinking about an LGBT archive in India.
Media Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanetham Pillay Publishes Groundbreaking Report On Violence Against LGBTI People
Historic United Nations report documents widespread discrimination and violence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people worldwide, and calls on countries to apply the international legal framework to end these human rights violations.
Afsana, Bina, Mukti, Sangita, Sunita: our heroes too!
Forced marriages of LGBT people are as unethical as child marriage, and resisting such marriages requires precisely the sort of courage that these girls from Purulia demonstrated.
gender meanders
This gender-river has been flowing through since time immemorial and every generation has its share of folks testing the waters.