#MeToo : Queer People Share their Stories
Gaylaxy Readers share their #MeToo stories and join the online campaign against sexual abuse
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Poem: Section 377 – Judging It Right or Wrong
I die a bit each day, as all I see is a murky way,
Sitting on that chair in that abandoned corner,
Which only people like me use to sit and ponder.
I c... Read More...
Miranda House, Delhi to Host LGBTQ Film Screening
The event will screen 7 LGBTQ films focused on youth and their issues like gender identity, coming out and family acceptance.
Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2017 to be held from July 28 to 30
A collection of Chennai-based collectives and NGOs working on gender and sexuality, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Chennai | Max Mueller Bhavan, brings you Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival (CIQFF) from July 28 to 30, 2017.
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.
Review: ‘The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen’ by Avinash Matta
The sixty poems in The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen are short pieces, and can be read in bursts. They coalesce around nature, and in contrast, technology. Often, Matta’s poems speak of gayness and its proscription in this country.
‘Keeping it Queer’ with Gay Stand-Up Comedian Navin Noronha
Bombayiite Navin Noronha has been making people laugh since his childhood. He quit engineering to write, and is now one of the few openly gay Indian stand-up comedians.
Watch: Sri Lanka celebrated Pride in a Unique Way By Taking out a Bus Parade and Flying Rainbow Kites
Pride in Sri Lanka was unique as the participants took out a Rainbow Bus Parade, with a bus full of participants and draped in rainbow flags going around the city of Colombo
How and Why Chennai Rainbow Pride This Year Was Also a Political Protest Against the Majoritarian Policies of the State
This year’s Pride parade in Chennai was more politically charged than the previous ones. The larger political scenario in the state and the country was one of the primary reasons for the increased vocal assertion. There were slogans and placards against the raising right-wing politics and Hindutva, Hindi imposition and cultural erasure.
Vishal Tondon’s Suicide is a Collective Queer Failure
we need to talk; about our feelings and the hurt we feel, the insecurities, the invalidity we experience, the constant pressures of an oppressive heteronormative as well as a homonormative society and sub-culture which like a ruthless predator gets over us and takes away our well being, peace and happiness
In Pics: 9th Chennai Rainbow Pride March
Chennai had its 9th edition of Pride on 25th June, 2017. Huge participation by queer women and a spectrum of people from all walks of life made it a real rainbo... Read More...
Gaylaxy and Feminism in India celebrate Pride Month with Wikipedia Editathon on Queer Pride Marches in India
By the end of the day, 10 new wiki pages had been created and another 4 updated.