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Supreme Court Panel Recommends Measures to Protect Consenting Adult Sex-Workers

February 15, 2016

A Supreme Court Panel set up in 2011 to protect the rights of sex workers and improve their working conditions, has recommended that Police must not interfere o... Read More...

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Whatever the Courts Decide, This Isn’t The End of the Road

January 31, 2016

This isn’t our ‘last hope’. It cannot be, considering how far we have come in just a few decades, despite legislative inaction and judicial dalliance.

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Vigils Planned Across India to Remind Courts LGBT Isn’t Miniscule Minority

January 31, 2016

People of the LGBT community have planned vigils in various cities across India on 31st January and 1st of February.

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Decoding 377

January 30, 2016

If social change needs to be initiated through a change in the law, which definitely provides more security to the members of the queer community, then so be it.

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A Letter from Queer India, Supporters and Allies

January 30, 2016

“Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come”. Equality, of gender, sexuality, between classes and castes, across regions and languages is the idea whose time has come!

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Supreme Court to take up Curative Petition on Sec 377 on Feb 2nd

January 28, 2016

Supreme Court of India to take up the curative petition on Section 377 on Feb 2

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India’s First Transgender Band launch their second song with Sonu Nigam

January 26, 2016

6 Pack Band, India's first transgender band that was launched on January 6th, have come up with their second song with Sonu Nigam this time. The song, titled Sab Rab De Bande, shows the journey of a trans person

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Sex, the City and Hypocrisy

January 19, 2016

Sex, in an Indian city for a young unmarried woman is quite like smuggling in contraband. It is immoral to the point of being socially unacceptable or even illegal, though not declared so by law yet.

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Will Re-Introduce Bill to Amend Sec 377 in Next Parliament Session: Shashi Tharoor

January 15, 2016

Shashi Tharoor has said that he will introduce his private member's bill to amend Section 377 again in the next parliamentary session

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Things Homosexuals Are Tired Of Hearing

January 14, 2016

As a gay man who came out in college, I have heard all of the things that the latest Being Indian video shows. How many of these have you heard?

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Y-Films launches India’s first Transgender Music Band

January 6, 2016

Y Films, the youth wing of Yash Raj Films, has launched India's first transgender music band.

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Bill to Amend Section 377 Defeated at Introduction Stage in Lok Sabha

December 18, 2015

The Private Member's Bill of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to amend Section 377 that was introduced in Lok Sabha failed to move ahead, with 71 MPs voting against... Read More...

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