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Added on: 02/05/2020

Mumbai: 51 booked for sedition for pro-Sharjeel Imam slogans at queer pride march

02/04/2020

The Mumbai Police have filed a sedition case against 51 persons, including activist Urvashi Chudawala, for allegedly chanting slogans in support of Jawaharlal Nehru University student Sharjeel…

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Added on: 02/03/2020

Mumbai Police denies permission for Pride 2020 at August Kranti Maidan

02/01/2020

Pride 2020, scheduled for February 1, the annual march of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual) community in the city, the Mumbai…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Indian Supreme Court accepts trans lawsuit against new trans rights law

01/28/2020

The Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on Monday on a petition alleging that a legislation drafted to protect transgender persons was violative of…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Gay Couple Moves Kerala HC For Recognition Of Homosexual Marriages Under Special Marriage Act

01/27/2020

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: 01/09/2020

India’s LGBTQ community joins citizenship law protests

01/02/2020

More than 1,000 members of India’s LGBTQ community, rights groups and their supporters marched through the streets of the capital on Friday to protest a citizenship law…

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Added on: 01/07/2020

Section 377 crusader Ashok Row Kavi steps down as Humsafar Trust Chairman

01/06/2020

Ashok Row Kavi, the founder Chairperson of Mumbai-based Humsafar Trust has stepped down from his post. The Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist had founded the Trust…

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Added on: 12/30/2019

Over the rainbow: A life of LGBTQ dignity is within reach

12/29/2019

If someone told Sindhuja in the dying moments of 2009 that a decade later, she would be standing as a full citizen and garnering the adulation of…

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Added on: 11/30/2019

Why India’s transgender people are protesting against a Bill that claims to protect their rights

11/26/2019

Four days after the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on November 20, members of the transgender community marched in…

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Added on: 11/26/2019

India’s LGBT community protests against transgender law at Delhi pride parade

11/26/2019

More than 1,000 members of India’s LGBT community took part in an annual pride parade in the nation’s capital on November 24, 2019. Many of those at…

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Added on: 11/14/2019

India: PIL against insistence of sex-reassignment surgery proof for passport

11/13/2019

An LGBT activist has approached the Madras high court to declare a proviso in passport rules mandating submission of sex re-assignment surgery certificate for effecting change of…

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Added on: 11/04/2019

The Indian army wants to keep homosexuality a punishable offence

11/03/2019

Officials in the Indian Army want to keep punishing officers for being gay despite the fact that homosexuality was decriminalised in the country last year. Officials have…

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Added on: 10/23/2019

How PrEP is changing safe sex practices for India’s LGBTQ community

10/22/2019

The dating, hook-up and relationship-seeking culture in the LGBTQ community has always had its own secret set of codes that allowed its members to navigate this dicey…

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Added on: 10/16/2019

India’s HIV-positive trans people find ‘new strength’ in technology

10/15/2019

Shoved, cursed and ridiculed, Nisha’s hospital visits were always stressful as a transgender woman and got worse after she was diagnosed as HIV-positive. But a new app…

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Added on: 10/15/2019

LGBT Issues Get a Push From India Firms a Year After Key Ruling

10/14/2019

In the year since India’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that decriminalized homosexuality, Deutsche Bank vice-president Ketty Avashia has noticed a small yet important shift toward…

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Added on: 10/14/2019

Transman anchors Malayalam news show

10/14/2019

For someone who aspired to be a journalist, Hrithik M (27), was living the dream. When Jeevan TV telecast its weekly roundup, ‘Azhchavattom’ with Hrithik as news…

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Added on: 09/30/2019

Devi Durga to click photos, LGBT people draw graffiti in Kolkata puja

09/29/2019

From Goddess Durga clicking a photograph of a visitor with an AI smart camera in one puja marquee, to drawing of traditional ‘alpana’ before the idol by…

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Added on: 09/12/2019

Indian city encouraged trans people to apply for police force. Instead of being given jobs, they were outed

09/11/2019

Forty young transgender folk in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India, left their jobs and homes when the local government announced a recruitment drive for trans police…

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Added on: 09/07/2019

In Nepal and India, parallel movements for dignity for LGBT communities

09/06/2019

I came of age in late 1990s Kathmandu, during a period when Nepal’s capital city was smaller and more insular. There was little room for marginalized groups…

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Added on: 09/05/2019

Year after India gay ruling, a battle to change attitudes

09/05/2019

Vivek Kishore and Vishwa Srivastava hit it off soon after meeting at a cafe, little knowing what lay in store for them as a gay couple in…

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Added on: 09/02/2019

Indian state bans unnecessary surgery on intersex babies

08/28/2019

An Indian state has banned sex assignment surgery on babies whose sex is not clear at birth, a health official said on Wednesday, in a first to…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

The (queer) year that was

08/31/2019

If you’re a queer Indian, the reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (a colonial-era law that criminalised consensual adult same sex relationships) on…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

How Silicon Valley fostered India’s LGBTQ+ movement

08/31/2019

The moment I heard that Section 377 had finally fallen, I wondered if my friends Arvind and Ashok, sitting far away from India in their two-storey house…

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Added on: 08/30/2019

Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery for Intersex Children

08/29/2019

India’s Tamil Nadu state government has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with intersex variations. The order comes in response to an April…

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Added on: 08/28/2019

India’s Chand confident of making Olympic cut

08/22/2019

Dutee Chand, India’s first openly gay sports star, has fought many battles off the track in recent years but for the next 12 months the sprinter is…

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Added on: 08/26/2019

Meet Kerala, India’s First “Married” Gay Couple

08/25/2019

A gay couple in India is getting mass attention for their love. And now, the couple are being referred to as the first “married” gay couple in…

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Added on: 08/16/2019

Mumbai: LGBT people raise clamour for gender-neutral laws

08/16/2019

Two city youths have decided to take the next step in the assertion of LGBT rights and have more queer-friendly laws in the country. To enable their…

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Added on: 08/13/2019

India SC Rejects Review Plea Seeking Same-Sex Marriage

08/12/2019

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of its order which had rejected a petition seeking various civil rights such as same-sex marriage, adoption and…

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Added on: 08/11/2019

Meet Mumbai’s LGBTQ heroes without capes

08/11/2019

In 2012, when the city got its first Gender Reassignment Clinic at Kolkilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri, Dr Dheeraj Kapoor, consulting endocrinologist, was one of the key…

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Added on: 07/22/2019

Two women who fought against LGBT laws in India just came out as a couple

07/22/2019

Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju successfully challenged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which punishes LGBTQ+ relations. The Supreme Court lawyers opposed the draconian laws which…

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Added on: 07/20/2019

India introduces new trans rights bill in parliament after backlash

07/19/2019

India’s government on Friday presented a revised version of its transgender rights bill to parliament after criticism from the country’s vibrant transgender community, who said sections of…