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Added on: 09/21/2020

Transgender activist Akkai Padmashali joins Congress

09/20/2020

In a historic event of sorts, transgender activist Dr Akkai Padmashali joined the Karnataka unit of the Congress party on Sunday. Akkai is the first from the…

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Added on: 09/17/2020

Kalki Subramaniam – Sahodari Foundation, India

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

I’m wondering if you can tell me a little bit about what inspired the Sahodari Foundation. Since childhood, I’ve had difficult experiences because of my transgender identity….

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Added on: 09/14/2020

Delhi HC to hear Petition seeking Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage under Hindu Marriage Act

09/14/2020

A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking recognition of same-sex marriage and couples under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. The petition has been…

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Added on: 09/06/2020

Two years since Article 377 scrapped, LGBTQ community still battling prejudices

09/05/2020

Rishabh Singh vividly remembers September 6, 2018, the day he says his life changed. Two years ago on this day, the Supreme Court had struck down the…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Coronavirus and stigma among priorities for India’s new transgender council

08/25/2020

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Discrimination, housing and the impact of COVID-19 are among the top priorities for India’s new National Council for Transgender Persons, two…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Neither boy nor girl, it’s ‘not a sin sweetheart’

08/24/2020

THRISSUR: A lullaby album for an intersex child, authored by transgender poet Vijayaraja Mallika, has gone viral on social media. “Shaapamalla, papamalla, omane nee, ente jeevithathil vannudhicha…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

An inclusive move: Reserved seats for transgenders in Kolkata

08/16/2020

Kolkata’s transgender commuters will now have designated seats in some of the city’s public buses. The movement to reserve at least one bus seat for the third…

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Added on: 08/16/2020

‘Be You’ Video Beautifully Captures the Essence of LGBTQ Community

08/15/2020

“The words independence and freedom mean different things to different people. On August 15, 2020, India celebrated its 74th Independence Day. However, the free expression of love…

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Added on: 08/03/2020

Relief eludes transgender gharanas of Bhopal

08/02/2020

Their income has dried up due to COVID-19 restrictions. “They came for men and women but not us,” lamented Devi Singh, 30, from the Mangalwara gharana [family]…

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Added on: 08/03/2020

This Lesbian Policewoman Couple in Gujarat Fought for Their Right to Be Together

08/02/2020

Gujarat’s Mahisagar – known for the discovery of dinosaur eggs and fossils in the 1980s – in the news once again, this time for a courageous story…

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Added on: 07/20/2020

Hong Kong’s transgender community faces workplace discrimination, leading LGBT campaigner to launch company guidance scheme

07/19/2020

When Liam Mak Wai-hon began a part-time bartending job at a steakhouse in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan earlier this year, he did not sense anything amiss at…

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Added on: 06/26/2020

From Kenya to Canada, support grows worldwide for homosexuality

06/25/2020

Acceptance of homosexuality is rising broadly across the world, according to a survey published on Thursday, even as sharp divisions persist by region and economic development. Support…

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Added on: 06/22/2020

A lonely and dangerous lockdown for LGBTQ Indians

06/21/2020

In conservative India, many in the LGBTQ community hide their real selves. But being stuck inside with their families for months in the coronavirus lockdown has made…

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Added on: 06/20/2020

Gay Indian comic busts biases without judgment

06/19/2020

Indian stand-up comic Vasu Primlani does not shy away from her sexuality in her gigs – even though until very recently, being gay put her at odds…

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Added on: 06/11/2020

India: They’re putting the B in LGBT

06/10/2020

Natasha was in her first year of college when she made a new female friend that she liked — a lot. “Up until that point, I was…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

‘No one wants to be tested:’ Social stigmas are crippling coronavirus containment

05/12/2020

Public health officials around the world have agreed that testing and contact tracing are vital to containing the coronavirus pandemic. But for many people, coming forward to…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

LGBT community hit hard by COVID-19 lockdown in Lakhimpur

05/12/2020

The LGBT community in Assam’s Lakhimpur district is hit hard by the impact of nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown. The victims are four transgender persons in the district who…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

From Sex Worker Mothers to Lesbian Parents: The Changing Face of Motherhood in India

05/10/2020

‘You’re not complete as a woman unless you become a mother.’ With these brilliantly misleading words that every woman in India must have heard at some point…

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Added on: 05/05/2020

In Ganjam’s quarantine centres, no separate provision for the transgender community

05/04/2020

Due to the lack of separate arrangements for transgender persons at a quarantine centre, Prasant*, an 18-year-old transgender person, had to spend a 14-day quarantine period, till…

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Added on: 04/26/2020

Lockdown, religion, migrant, survival, and more

04/25/2020

The good thing about this Chinese virus is that it has knocked the stuffing out of religion. Where are monotheism, polytheism, in fact theism itself? What about…

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Added on: 04/13/2020

NGO DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY IN DELHI AMID LOCKDOWN

04/12/2020

The members of Mitr Trust NGO on Saturday distributed food among the transgender community in Delhi amid COVID-19 lockdown. Rudrani Chettri, NGO Director said, “Many people are…

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Added on: 04/04/2020

India: LGBT is the hardest hit group in these coronavirus times

04/03/2020

The one group of people which is always gets excluded from discussion on any subject of national importance is LGBT or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. The…

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Added on: 03/26/2020

India’s ‘invisible’ trans community struggles as coronavirus shuts life down

03/25/2020

India’s coronavirus lockdown leaves transgender people at heightened risk of poverty and ill health because they exist on the margins of society, eking out a living through…

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Added on: 03/20/2020

How a 27-year-old queer Indian brought drag to their city

03/19/2020

Patruni Sastry is a 27-year-old, gender-fluid drag performer from the south of India. And they have a surprising story to tell about bringing drag to the city…

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Added on: 03/14/2020

How Indian Pride Festivals Have Become Political Battlegrounds

03/09/2020

For most queer people, pride is seen as a space to celebrate diversity and resist oppression. It’s a space where they feel safe and seen. But this…

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Added on: 03/12/2020

Seven Asian movies celebrating LGBT romance

03/11/2020

While Hollywood has blockbuster queer films Brokeback Mountain (2005), Moonlight (2016) and Call Me By Your Name (2017), social stigmas and cultural taboos mean that LGBTQ+ characters…

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Added on: 03/10/2020

Bollywood goes LGBT: Gay romcom Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan is a game-changer

03/09/2020

Bollywood has long stereotyped LGBTQ+ characters into farcical clichés – the brothel-owning transgender villain, effeminate horny gay man, cross-dressers, sexualised lesbians and predatory transgender men – typically…

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Added on: 02/23/2020

Rainbow Scapes: Filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan on chronicling the lives of LGBT individuals who ‘lived fearlessly’

02/22/2020

In 2011, I travelled across India to document lives of 20 gay, lesbian and transgender persons who have lived their lives fearlessly and contributed in their own…

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Added on: 02/21/2020

Gay Couple Moves Kerala HC For Recognition Of Homosexual Marriages

02/02/2020

Nikesh and Sonu, the first ‘married’ gay couple from Kerala, have moved the High Court of Kerala challenging the provisions of Special Marriage Act 1954 to the…

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Added on: 02/09/2020

Working towards making the world a more inclusive space, says Mr Gay India 2020

02/08/2020

A 31-year-old Punekar has been working towards creating safe spaces for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community since the past decade in the country. “I…