Homosexuality

Voices: A Thinly Veiled Act Of Cowardice?
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Haiku for the Disenfranchised:        An overcooked symphony the angry voices scream  ‘377. Unnatural Offences – Whoever voluntarily…

By Neha Naqvi
January 1, 2014
Voices: A Thinly Veiled Act Of Cowardice?
Verdict 377: Love in the times of Section 377
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The Supreme Court’s verdict on Section 377 will not make a difference to my life with my “roommate” but will…

By Curated Content
January 15, 2014
Verdict 377: Love in the times of Section 377
Interview: Sunil Gupta (Part II)
Artist Sunil Gupta stands infront of a wall which has two framed photos of his family. He has greying hair and is wearing a patterned woolen sweater.

Sunil Gupta is an artist, activist, and a curator, based in London UK. In this interview, he talks to Manak…

By Manak Matiyani
July 15, 2014
Interview: Sunil Gupta (Part II)
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
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I have great respect for Michel Foucault and his views on sexuality in our present era. While speaking on the…

By Sonia Soans
February 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
A Boy And His Closet: My Coming Out Story
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This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. The author chose to remain anonymous. “So how…

By Curated Content
March 20, 2015
A Boy And His Closet: My Coming Out Story
Brushstrokes: Sigmund Freud on Homosexuality
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[slideshow_deploy id=’5774′] The most common jab taken at someone who is not heteronormative is that they are insane, and need…

By Curated Content
April 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Sigmund Freud on Homosexuality
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Still from the film 'Margarita with a Straw' showing actress Kalki Koechlin being given a bath by actress Revathy

The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…

By Geetanjali Misra
June 1, 2015
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order
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On June 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States of America held, “The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state…

By Debanuj DasGupta
August 1, 2015
Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order
Bandar Aur Insaan Reloaded
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Last year, I received a research fellowship from the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)…

By Surabhi Shukla
August 15, 2015
Bandar Aur Insaan Reloaded
DIASPORIC VALUES // Part II
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August 15, 2015
DIASPORIC VALUES // Part II
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
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In the spring of 2005, working with a medical NGO, I and five colleagues (two critical care flight paramedics, a…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
Friendship, Sexuality and the Auden Group
Friendship, Sexuality and the Auden Group

Friendship has always remained a thinly coded term for same-sex love within queer discourses, and early writings in favour of…

By Kaustav Bakshi
February 15, 2018
Friendship, Sexuality and the Auden Group
Review: Risk-averse Bollywood Tackles Taboo Issues
A still from the film ‘Secret Superstar’, showing a young girl and boy staring at each othjer, both wearing school uniforms

Several recent mainstream Hindi films have dealt with issues of sexuality and gender not usually discussed in the intended audience’s drawing rooms.

By Shaifali Agrawal
May 1, 2018
Review: Risk-averse Bollywood Tackles Taboo Issues
“HOMO” and Being Gay in Manipur
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The Meitei queer’s tussle with sexuality continues to be a struggle jarred with discrimination, negation and moral policing through language.

By Davidson and Pavel
May 15, 2018
“HOMO” and Being Gay in Manipur
The Ocean in My Veins
A placard against a black background, on which is written 'Idea Junction, Colombo Pride 2018.'

The circulation of our bodily energies potentially ushers queer futurities. A future that is yet to come, a future in which our bodies will not be imprinted with fear. A future in which newer creative economies of desire, love, and pleasure surround us like the blue waters of the Indian Ocean. I write this brief reflection in hopes of such futures.

By Debanuj DasGupta
July 2, 2018
The Ocean in My Veins
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