Gay Bombay, Queer Ink and the Hive present the Queers & Pets meet!
As we recover from an amazing Pride 2015 Gaybombayhas a fun and interesting
meeting lined up for this Sunday @ The Hive, Khar:the first Queers & Pets Meet!
Anyone who knows queer people know how we love ouranimal friends. Dogs, c
This very well written piece brings up a subject that matters to most
middle-class Indians - the servants who are the ubiquitous, if often
un-acknowledged parts of our lives:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/blogs/a-hole-in-the-heart-of-my-family-641504
It reminded me of a piece I wrote some years bac
Pearls Before Swine, an engagingly offbeat comic strip that runs in Mumbai
Mirror, recently had this strip which referred to a LGBT sandwich (thanks to
the lag that Indian newspapers run comics, the strip came out in September, but
only ran here this month):Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis,
Just in case you ever happen to be photographed in an intimate position with
someone of the same sex and happen to need to explain it away you might want to
use this masterful explanation from Vivek Mishra, who seems to be someone
intent on making himself a celebrity by becoming India's first nu
This is just to tell everyone to mark their calendars for Sunday November 30th
when GB will be having one of its super popular Film Club screenings. It will
be happening, as usual, at National College in Bandra from around 1.30 pm to 8
pm. This is a free event, but entrance is restricted to thos
In advance of Children's Day on November 14th, the Indian Express' Sunday
supplement published a collection of letters from parents to their children.
This is a particularly moving one from a mother to her queer son. (Please
consider posting comments about it. All too often we leave online comme
For those who haven't discovered this MTV US comedy show, just find some way to
watch it! It is, sadly, not showing in India and I wonder if it ever will
(70:30 chances I think, since MTV India sometimes likes to push the envelope
and the show doesn't show explicit sex, even if it hints at a lot
An interesting article from the excellent online news magazine Scroll.in on how
children's and young adult books in India are starting to include lgbt
characters:
Gay characters, single-parent families: Books for Indian kids begin to reflect
real life
Gay characters, single-parent families
When the Supreme Court upheld Section 377 one of the immediate reactions was
that this was a shocking case of the court empowering blackmailers. Throughout
its history S.377 - and similar laws across the world - has been used extremely
successfully to extort money from gay men who are too scared
This recording of a RedFM show is really worth listening to because the host
manages to connect with the wife who filed a S.377 case against her husband
when she learned he was gay.
https://soundcloud.com/redfm-bengaluru/disha-oberoi-explores-section-377
There has been quite a lot criticism
An article that really should be read to alert us to the threat that these
ex-gay organisations might pose to use in India. As this article notes, because
they are facing a dead end in places like Australia they are shifting their
focus to places like India. And far from providing just an indivi
A piece by me in response to Tim Cook's coming out:
Will Singapore, India continue to disregard LGBT rights?
Will Singapore, India continue to disregard LGBT rights?
As multinationals become quiet advocates for equal rights for LGBTs how long
will investment and technology hungry countri
Here are two recent attempts to take on homophobes which are worth seeing,
though this first one is frankly a bit of a train wreck:
Check Out This Irish Senator's Awesome Smack Down of Russia's Anti-gay
Propaganda Ban: VIDEO |News | Towleroad
Check Out This Irish Senator's Awesome Smack Dow
When queer Indian kids come out to their parents they sometimes say that one of
the problems they had is they didn't have the words to explain the concept of
being queer to their parents in the language they speak. What words they could
think of often had negative connotations which they felt wo
The trailer of Pride, a new British film about an unlikely alliance between gay
activists and striking miners during the Thatcher years has been getting a lot
of publicity. It looks like its going to be a really great film to watch, Billy
Elliott with much more gay interest (Billy did have that
Goolam Vahanvati, the ex-Attorney General of India passed away yesterday from a
heart attack. He was much in the news in the last years of the previous
government particularly for having to defend some dubious legal decisions. But
what should matter to us is that he was a supporter of decriminal
For all of us who were in court during the Supreme Court hearings on the Naz
case and remember the awfulness of hearing Justice Mukhopadhaya responding to
our lawyers arguments with total ignorance and prejudice, the audio in this
link affords a certain irrational satisfaction.
Because i
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