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‘I wanted to write something that feels authentically desi in its queerness’: Sarah Thankam Mathews

Shalvi Jaxay
· Mar 12, 2023 · 12:30 pm
Watch: In a first, a sitting Australian prime minister walks in Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Scroll Staff
· Feb 27, 2023 · 11:19 am
From memoirs to fiction, from poetry to YA, queer literature offers more reading options than ever

Saurabh Sharma
· Feb 26, 2023 · 08:30 am
Watch: MJ Rodriguez, first trans actress to win a Golden Globe, gets standing ovation a year later

Scroll Staff
· Jan 11, 2023 · 03:21 pm
In this book, writer Sharif D Rangnekar recounts a gay Thai man’s concerns about queer life in India

Sharif D Rangnekar
· Dec 22, 2022 · 08:30 am
Film on homosexual soldier not given NOC as it would show Army in ‘poor light’, Centre tells LS

Scroll Staff
· Feb 12, 2022 · 10:43 am
Danish Sheikh’s theatrical response to Section 377 litigation can now be read as well as watched

Danish Sheikh
· Sep 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Saleem Kidwai (1951-2021): A pioneering historian of same-sex love in India

R Raj Rao
· Aug 31, 2021 · 01:32 pm
Madras HC bans ‘cure’ of sexual orientation, issues guidelines to police to handle LGBTQ cases

Scroll Staff
· Jun 07, 2021 · 05:28 pm
Centre opposes same-sex marriage, says it ‘can’t be compared to Indian family unit’

Scroll Staff
· Feb 25, 2021 · 05:31 pm
‘Existing as a queer South Asian is draining’: How LGBTQ+ groups hope to combat stigma and exclusion

Amanat Khullar
· Dec 23, 2020 · 06:30 pm
Pope Francis’ support for same-sex unions doesn’t change Catholic doctrine – and yet it matters

Steven P Millies, The Conversation
· Oct 23, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Why LGBT people must protest sedition case against 50 people for slogans at Mumbai Queer Pride event

Alok Hisarwala
· Feb 04, 2020 · 12:12 pm
Watch: Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, soon to play a gay man, says same sex marriage is legal in India

Scroll Staff
· Jan 28, 2020 · 07:04 pm
Watch: A man proposes to his boyfriend only to find that he, too, had a ring ready for the same day

Scroll Staff
· Nov 29, 2019 · 02:13 pm
Watch: This advertisement tells a beautiful same sex love story, but some viewers feel cheated

Scroll Staff
· Nov 15, 2019 · 10:10 am
They’re all welcome: Qatar officials happy to have transgender, homosexual fans at 2022 Fifa WC

AFP
· Sep 27, 2019 · 01:50 pm
Pow! How comics are helping queer men reclaim their own bodies

Phillip Joy, Matthew Numer, Megan Aston and Stephanie Gauvin, The Conversation
· Jul 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Pride month: These 18th-century Ottoman manuscripts feature poems, images celebrating same-sex love

Dr Michael Erdman
· Jun 17, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Watch: Couples in Taiwan celebrate legalisation of same-sex marriages by walking down rainbow aisle

Scroll Staff
· May 30, 2019 · 01:00 pm