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Taali to trash transgender taboo
October 20, 2022
Gauri Sawant hit the national headlines in 2017 when her life and struggles were portrayed in an advertisement by pain balm brand Vicks, made by Procter & Gamble. In the film, Gauri’s adopted daughter Gayatri narrates the story of her mother’s life and how adoption change...
Read MoreDangerous silence around male sex abuse in India
October 4, 2021
In 2018, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a national public health agency of the United States, revealed that nearly a quarter (24.8 pc) of men in the US had experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime, and about one in four ...
Read MoreStill a long walk to equal rights for LGBTQ in India
February 27, 2021
Armit Puri and Gagan Das’s love story is like anyone else’s. Based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, both engineers met at work, fell in love and have been living together for four years now. But as a same-sex couple in India, their relationship was a crime until a 2018 ruling by the Su...
Read MoreCelebrating International Pride Month 2019
June 14, 2019
To celebrate International Pride Month 2019, Love Matters, an online platform in support of the LGBTQ+ people is organising a letter writing event, taking an initiative to thank all those who came in support of the community.
Read MoreRising cases of ‘honour killings’ in India
September 26, 2018
While India takes immense pride in eliminating Section 377, it still has a long way in doing away with its many other social taboos. Two innocent adults in the country were recently killed by their family members over the issue of an inter-caste marriage, in the name of their ‘...
Read MoreMumbai sees first ‘open’ transgender wedding
January 7, 2017
The city of Mumbai saw the most unique kind of marriage as Madhuri Sarode, a transgender, married her boyfriend of five years, Jay Kumar Sharma. Though this is not the first transgender marriage in India, their marriage is unique as this wasn’t held in secret.
Read MoreIndia refrains to vote at the UN LGBT resolution
July 2, 2016
While the United Nations took a historic stand to curb the violence and discrimination against alternate sexual preferences, India abstained from voting.
Read MoreLGBT celebrities in India appeal to Supreme Court to decriminalise homosexuality
June 28, 2016
The Supreme Court of India had twice refused to hear pleas for the cease of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Court (IPC), which criminalises homosexuality in the country. However, well-known personalities from the LGBT community in India have now moved the Supreme Court (SC) to he...
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