Mumbai walks with pride with over 6000 supporters
DKloset contingent (Pic by Dharmarajan M)
Mumbai came out in full force to walk the annual Pride March on January 31. Organized by the Queer Azaadi Mumbai col... Read More...
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Modi Govt to ‘honour’ Yoga guru Baba Ramdev with Padma Bhushan
NDA government has released the list of people who will be awarded Padma Bhushan on Jan 26th. Among the awardees is yoga guru Baba Ramdev.
Baba Ramdev had a... Read More...
Mumbai Pride on Jan 31st, celebrations underway
Mumbai is celebrating Pride Month with a host of events planned over the weekends of January. Starting with the Queer Games and kite flying on consecutive Sun... Read More...
Goa Minister backtracks on ‘curing’ homosexuals after outrage, CM calls Homosexuality a “natural gift”
Ramesh Tawadkar
Goa Sports Minister Ramesh Tawadkar of the BJP went back on his purported statement on setting up treatment centres for LGBT youth... Read More...
BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj’s comment on Gays and Lesbians that went unnoticed
BJP MPs and ministers are in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. While Goa's Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar's comments were widely r... Read More...
Goa Govt to set up “Gay Cure” Centres
Goa Government is contemplating setting up of gay cure centres to "rehabilitate" LGBT youth, state Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar told The ... Read More...
Rainbow Walk in JNU Campus on 9th January
Rainbow Tree (Picture by Gourab Ghosh)
In the wake of a rainbow tree vandalised on 28th November, 2014 in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, one of the mo... Read More...
Indian Govt may award Homophobic Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev with Second Highest Civilian Award
According to reports in the media, Modi Govt may award Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of the country to yoga guru Baba. Former Deputy Pr... Read More...
Transgender elected Mayor of Raigarh
Madhu Kinnar became the first transgender to be elected to a public office in Chattisgarh by winning the Mayoral election of the Raigarh Municipal Corporati... Read More...
600 arrests under Section 377 in 2014
There have been 587 arrests under Section 377 in India and 778 cases were registered under this Section till October 2014, according to data provided by the H... Read More...
Films exploring Masculinities to be screened at Mumbai Films Division on Jan 3rd
Mardistan Poster
With the growing concerns about the sexual harassment of women and violence against gay, lesbian & transgender persons, there has also be... Read More...
Justice Katju calls gay relations ‘Nonsense’, says single women prone to ‘Psychological Problems’
Former Supreme Court justice Markandey Katju on Friday denounced gay relationships and marriage, saying they fail to fulfill the primary goal of a relationshi... Read More...