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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicIndia LGBTQ community

Topic: India LGBTQ community

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.

Fashioning new legislative regime for allowing same-sex marriages falls under Parliament’s domain: CJI Chandrachud

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has said that fashioning entirely a "new legislative regime" to allow same-sex marriages falls under...

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India is becoming a Republic of RWAs. It’s the most powerful elected body

Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.