Hyderabad witnesses Four Play, an Interactive Art Performance
Hyderabad witnessed one of its first interactive performance called “Four Play” on the evening of 29th September, at its much-celebrated open space cultural centre Lamakaan.
Art & Culture
Book Review: ‘Lord of the Senses’ is a Tender, Honest and Earnest Collection Bound to Hold Your Heart Still
I’ve said this before on a previous review for Gaylaxy. There is not enough queer fiction. We could have a thousand fictional stories, plays and novels written... Read More...
Book Review: ‘The Broken Amoretti’ is an Utter Failure As a Queer Novel
I received this book through Sukhdeep from Gaylaxy, and so began with the assumption that the book would be about someone, somehow, who falls under our vast LG... Read More...
Freedom Mahal: Retrieving Lost Spaces And Untold Stories Through Theatre
Three years ago when Radhika, Rumi and Sunil started working on Freedom Mahal, what started out originally as a research project, also began exploring the poss... Read More...
Drag Show Sizzles Hyderabad
On Sunday, the 9th of June, Hyderabad saw a first of its kind “Drag show” at Nirvana Café in Jubliee Hills, Madapur. Held in collaboration with Sas3’s dancing ... Read More...
Book Review: The Scent of God
I had such extraordinary high hopes for The Scent of God. The Indian publishing industry has very, very few openings for queer fiction; we get more non-fiction... Read More...
A 10th Class Student From Turkey Made This Comic Strip About the Indian LGBT Movement
Dilara Zaimoglu
Dilara Zaimoğlu, a 10th grade student studying in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of her school project, had to choose a country and a character fro... Read More...
Book Review: THE OTHER GUY – A Novel that Revives Your Faith in True Love
'The Other Guy' by Aakash Mehrotra is one such novel that has the potential to be the best seller for dealing with the emotions of two Indian gay men in love with the right balance of drama and facts.
Bengaluru’s Queer Book-Lovers get a Weekend Worth Remembering
Radio Active CR 90.4, in association with Namma Pride Bengaluru 2017, organised Queer Readings and Conversations – an effort to bring together Bengaluru’s queer community and allies, offer them a safe platform to express themselves, recite poems and discuss matters of queer existence through the passages from books they chose to read aloud.
Watch: Powerful Poetry About Societal Pressure on ‘How To Be A Man’
In this powerful poem, Simar Singh tells how the societal pressure of "manning up" causes emotional damage to men, and how you can #UnManYourself.
Book Review: ‘Thousand Dreams Within Me Softly Burn’ by Sahil Sood
Sahil Sood has paved the way for a fresh outlook on the nature of gay relationships in the queer genre, which, for most, is synonymous with mushiness, longing, death and loss.
Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
TMOUH is primarily a story of margins and marginalized; the ones who are ‘misfit’ for the soceity, the dunya as Anjum rightly called it, where hegemonic majoritarian politics make identities like being Queer, Woman, Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Kashmiri, Drug Addict, Syrian Christian, Poor and Uneducated the easy target of unbridled and insatiable hatred.