A queer Indian artist is exploring her sexual identity through a comic book

Priya Dali views the issue of ‘coming out’ through the children’s game of ‘ghar ghar’.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Aug 31, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Media watch: The Marathi press skirted around Irish Prime Minister-elect Leo Varadkar’s gay identity

Newspapers reported his origins in the Konkan but most avoided explicit mention of his sexuality.

Shibu Thomas

· Jun 04, 2017 · 01:42 pm

To Babes, with love: An illustrator explores the intersection between queer and Sikh pride

Jasjyot Singh Hans’s work provides alternatives to the tropes of violence and toxic masculinity.

Harsimran Gill

· May 02, 2017 · 11:30 am

Lucknow holds its first Queer Pride Parade: They marched 1.5 km, but their message went a long way

Among the 300-odd participants, many had come from as far away as Mumbai, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Kolkata.

Faisal Fareed

· Apr 10, 2017 · 08:09 pm

A new café in Kolkata hopes to give voice to the queer community (across languages)

Amra Odbhuth wants queer and trans voices to get together, perform and celebrate identities.

Chandrima Pal

· Jan 24, 2017 · 03:53 pm

Let’s go outside: What George Michael meant to the gay community

After being booked for a ‘lewd act’ in a public toilet in 1998, the singer was unapologetic.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Dec 27, 2016 · 06:30 am

Queer love in Delhi: A book of photographs explores desire and longing in the Capital

Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's images are defiant and filled with protest.

Chapal Mehra

· Dec 20, 2016 · 11:30 am

Justin Trudeau does it again, leading the Toronto pride parade in a pink shirt

"It shouldn’t be a big thing that a prime minister’s walking a Pride parade," the Canadian prime minister said.

Rhema Mukti Baxter

· Jul 04, 2016 · 04:00 pm

From Bulleh Shah and Shah Hussain to Amir Khusro, same-sex references abound in Islamic poetry

The uneasy relationship between homosexuality and the Muslim world is exemplified in the life and works of many Sufi saints.

Haroon Khalid

· Jun 17, 2016 · 05:30 pm

At Mumbai's gay pride march, parents come out to support their queer children

Rainbow photographs from Saturday's event.

Ritesh Uttamchandani

· Feb 07, 2016 · 01:15 pm

What Indian lesbians have to say about an advertisement depicting Indian lesbians

The ad film has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube since it first appeared online on May 28.

Shelly Walia, Qz.com

· Jun 13, 2015 · 03:30 pm

Born this way? How high-tech conversion therapy could undermine gay rights

Current conversion therapies can't effectively switch someone's sexual orientation. But there could be a time down the road when neuroscience can do what they can't. Where does that leave gay rights?

Andrew Vierra and Brian D Earp, The conversation

· Apr 26, 2015 · 06:30 am