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TOGETHER, ALONE

·November 2, 2020
·Kaustav Bakshi

It wasn’t that she had never heard of homosexuality; but, in her imagination, gay men and women were an exotic species, not real people who could, perchance, be fellow passengers on a bus, fellow shoppers at a mall, or a fellow beginner in a meditation class.

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A poster of the film ‘Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Barish’. In the poster, an image of a woman glancing sideways is shown and on the right is an image of a young boy in a wheelchair and a man behind him enjoying rain.

Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish: A platonic togetherness

·November 2, 2020
·Dr Swarupa N Kshirsagar

The movie was criticised for its stereotypical portrayal of Debu as a gay man. But, the beauty is that it also highlights the reversal of gender roles. The smiles, and the laughter sounding throughout the house, create a cheery note in the movie.

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The Caste of Marriage

·September 1, 2020
·Gowthaman Saroja Ranganathan

LGBT struggle must be an anti-caste struggle. This requires us to go beyond thinking of caste and sexuality as merely an intersecting point which may be occupied by some within LGBT identities.

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स्वर्ग और धरती के बीच अधर में लटके त्रिशंकु की मानिंद

·May 15, 2019
·Madhu Kewalramani

The concluding chapter reiterates the aims of the book, i.e., “to start critical conversations within the disciplines of psychology, social work, childhood studies, and family studies in India and to think about exclusions inherent in these disciplines.

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Silk black gloves, along with a pair of heels and handcuffs

Why it is Important To Not Include Everything in the Queer Bracket

·May 1, 2019
·Asmi

I personally feel that any cause, specially one like kink that is in its nascent stages, needs its own space to grow, to affect enough people, before it merges with the larger cause of queerness, or sexuality, or even humanity.

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Photo of founder Sachin Jain, holding up a placard that says ‘G.H.A.R’

Video Page: GHAR – Gay Housing Assistance Resource

·March 5, 2018
·Curated Content

Nineteen years ago, Sachin Jain founded G.H.A.R, the Gay Housing Assistance Resource, a revolutionary project which helps LGBT people find safe and friendly housing.

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A woman in a wheelchair, smiling, conversing with another woman who is also on a wheelchair. She has long hair pulled to one side, is wearing frameless specks, and is wearing a red and black top.

Reflections on accessibility and sexuality

·August 16, 2017
·Shreshtha Das

I thought of myself as a feminist activist much before I formally entered the development sector space. I participated in many protests and the celebrations and attended panels and talks on the different ways that gender and sexuality play out. I avidly consumed the abundance of information that the vast world of the Internet had…

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Snippets from the Indian LGBT Movement: Extracted from Records in SAATHII Calcutta’s LGBT Support Centre Reference Library

·December 16, 2016
·Curated Content

As an organized political movement the Indian LGBT movement is still quite young, having taken its first steps only in the early 1990s. However, it is not as if the movement started overnight. Rather it was a result of several visible and invisible developments taking place over the years in the world and Indian contexts.

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