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Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2017 to be held from July 28 to 30

July 25, 2017

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.

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Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

July 24, 2017

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.

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Review: ‘The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen’ by Avinash Matta

July 18, 2017

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.

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‘Keeping it Queer’ with Gay Stand-Up Comedian Navin Noronha

July 16, 2017

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.

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Watch: Sri Lanka celebrated Pride in a Unique Way By Taking out a Bus Parade and Flying Rainbow Kites

July 14, 2017

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

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How and Why Chennai Rainbow Pride This Year Was Also a Political Protest Against the Majoritarian Policies of the State

July 7, 2017

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.

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Vishal Tondon’s Suicide is a Collective Queer Failure

July 6, 2017

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

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In Pics: 9th Chennai Rainbow Pride March

July 2, 2017

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...

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Gaylaxy and Feminism in India celebrate Pride Month with Wikipedia Editathon on Queer Pride Marches in India

June 20, 2017

By the end of the day, 10 new wiki pages had been created and another 4 updated.

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LGBTQ Support Groups of IITs, IIMs, BITS and IISc Come Together To Raise Awareness on Queer Issues During Pride Month

June 10, 2017

This is the first time that 2 IIMs, 4 IITs, BITS Pilani and IISc Bangalore have come together to discuss and create awareness about these issues and create a space of support for LGBTQ+ equality.

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Whose Pride is it Anyways? Beyond the Hashtag Wars, Pune Pride Raises Important Questions We Need To Answer

June 9, 2017

Queer people undergo enough repression in their daily lives by straight people, society, government and police, let them not face more repression and policing of their bodies and desires at pride marches.

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Queer Dating Platform Amour Celebrates an Year of Serving the Community

May 31, 2017

Amour, which was launched on June 4th 2016 as a platform to serve Diverse Queer community members find long term partners, has successfully completed an year

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