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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicIndia LGBTQ community

Topic: India LGBTQ community

Tax terror and India’s same-sex couples

Even without entering the debate on marriage equality, India’s laws are already punishing same-sex couples in small and large ways that are rarely discussed.

Drains to dating apps—Dalit queer booklet maps Delhi’s unspoken caste geography

‘Across the Nala’, a collaborative effort between Project Mukti, Unsound Project, and the Urban Studies Foundation, was launched at the Centre for Justice, OP Jindal Global University.

Yes, you can be queer and Muslim. But it’s hard to say what a ‘Muslim’ is

Edited by Kazim Ali, ‘On the Brink of Belief’ gathers 24 voices from the Indian subcontinent to explore queerness and faith.

Is there an Indian way to be gay? Most of us learn about queerness from American TV

We’re sad about drag bans in the US, but don’t care about horizontal reservations in India. Stonewall remains our frame of reference, and AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan is unheard of.

Indian gay men idolise three kinds of women. They’re all missing from this era of Bollywood

It’s no secret: gay men love women. Their lives are deeper, their conversation more honest, their heartbreak familiar.

Grindr is dying. The final nail in the coffin is ads

I remember counting the profiles in my town and feeling a sense of relief—there were more like me out there. Grindr was a brutal place, but it offered freedom.

Parents think we turn kids gay, says Anjali Gopalan after winning Franco-German award

Naz Foundation founder Anjali Gopalan received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law this week. She is the first Indian to win the award.

Lawyers can’t lead the queer movement. Involve grassroots activists, community organisers

In 'The Urban Elite v. Union of India', queer lawyer Rohin Bhatt offers an insider's view of the marriage equality hearings.

Gyms are unsafe for gay men like me. Jeers, stares, and treadmill trauma

I don't want a hulking body; I want to be lean so I can wear a crop top. But my idea of fitness doesn’t match theirs.

Indian woman who was head of ‘all gays in New York’—Urvashi Vaid changed American activism

Urvashi Vaid was ‘the most prolific LGBTQ organiser in history’; her peers describe her as a prophet of the LGBTQ movement. It all began at an anti-Vietnam War rally she attended at 11.

On Camera

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.