Book Review: Coming Out.. Scribblings From The Heart
A collection of autobiographical notes written between 2012 and 2014, ‘Coming Out….Scribblings from the Heart’ gives the reader an insight into a closeted gay man’s life
Art & Culture
A Play That Explores Gender Through Mythology
‘Shikhandi: The Story of In-Betweens’ gives an interesting new twist to how and why a Yaksha gave his penis to Shikhandi
Watch: Powerful Poem About A Gay Man’s Thoughts on First Night of His Marriage to a Girl
"The Marriage" is a poem about a gay man who has been forcibly married to a woman and his thoughts on the first night of marriage.
Queer Potli – Exploring Urban Queer Spaces Through an Anthology
Queer Potli is a collection of 12 articles. Each article presents a very different view of such spaces which exist all around us. Spaces like private facilitations, NGO walk-in centres, even private spaces such as family and home along with public and cultural spaces, and how these spaces provide and lack safety for every queer person.
15 Books You Must Read To Understand Same-Sex Sexuality In India
A curated – by no means exhaustive – list of books you can read to deepen your understanding of same-sex sexuality in India and sexuality studies in general.
A Portugese Dancer Is Questioning Gender Norms By Taking Inspiration from Indian Concept Of ‘Ardhanarishivra’
Artist Diniz Sanchez, taking inspiration from Indian concept of ‘Ardhanarishvara’, has developed a performance character named Spicy Tutuboy.
Five major English novels from Pakistan that have Homosexual characters
It is still an unlikely chance to come across a book on homosexuality by a Pakistani author given the general public’s regressive thoughts on gender and sexuali... Read More...
Book Review: Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy’s debut novel Don’t Let Him Know by Bloomsbury is a family saga spread across two generations and continents. The novel tells the story of a Bengal... Read More...
Book Review: Selections from The Thousand Nights and a Night
“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!”
And hence, glory be to the aforementioned book, translated by Sir R.F Burton.
The book i... Read More...
Delhi college witnesses street plays on Sexuality and Gender issues
The students at college campus of Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology(BPIT), New Delhi, witnessed two unique and powerful Nukkad Nataks - Pehchan and Ma... Read More...
Syam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy: Tales of Forbidden Love
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for gay male fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Syam Selvadurai’s debut Funny Boy is perhaps the most wide... Read More...
Book Review: Denial, Deceit, Discovery
My college never bothered much about queer people, taking pride in its ‘Catholic’ antecedents. Little surprise then, that in my second year, I stumbled acro... Read More...