South Asia Archives - Gaylaxy Magazine

South Asian Heritage Month begins in UK, Aims to Celebrate the Diversified Cultures of South Asia

July 25, 2021

SAHM was purposely founded to celebrate and commemorate South Asian culture and history in the United Kingdom. It highlights the influences and achievements of South Asians that can be found in everyday life in the UK

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South Asian Drag Artists Blur Boundaries to Raise Awareness on Brown Drag

May 10, 2020

Asifa Lahore, UK’s first out Muslim drag artist, came up with an idea to galvanize South Asian drag performers together and create a huge collage video to display the diversity of South Asian drag scene.

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GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT film streaming platform, launches in India with 400+ titles

June 15, 2019

Asia’s first LGBT film streaming platform, GagaOOLala, officially launched in India on Friday, June 14th. The Taiwanese OTT platform is expanding into the 8 te... Read More...

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Sons of Roses – A Photography Project Explores Queer Weddings among South Asians in Canada

June 25, 2018

SONS OF ROSES aims to spark more discussion about queer weddings and help to create healthy conversations at home.

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This Moving Speech by an Indian Origin Gay Man’s Mother at a Queer South Asian Event in Canada Received Standing Ovation

June 21, 2018

Please love your children as they are, and do not tell them to change. They cannot. They are born this way

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Coming Out as an LGBT Muslim

June 16, 2018

I say one can be LGBT+ and reconcile it with faith, it is a story they do not want to hear because it provides a positive role model story and goes against the narrative they have chosen to portray repeatedly.

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Documentary about Gay Indian Professor to be premiered at Queer Asia Film Festival in London

June 15, 2018

Inaayat, a documentary film intended to explore the nuanced relationship between a gay man and his mother, is going to be screened at Queer Asia Film Festival in London.

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In Conversation with Rosanna Flamer-Caldera of Sri Lankan LGBTIQ Rights Organisation EQUAL GROUND

December 11, 2017

Non-profit organisation EQUAL GROUND works to dismantle cultural and social stigma, and fights back against police corruption and government inactivity to seek human and political rights for Sri Lanka’s LGBTIQ community.

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My Experience Participating in the first Constituent Assembly (CA1) of Nepal as the First and Only Out Gay MP

August 8, 2017

Nepal's constitution has become among the rarest constitutions across the world guaranteeing sexual and gender minorities rights by the constitution itself.

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What Devdutt Pattanaik Says about the Kinnars/Third-Genders and Kankalas/Skeletons of Tantrik Temples in Nepal

August 2, 2017

I was struck by the vivid image of a life size Kinnara or Third gender and a Kankala or Skeleton, right at the entrance of the Guhyeshwari temple. Devdutt Pattnaik explained the significance to me.

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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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A Photography Project Documents South Asian LGBTQ

November 28, 2015

Gaysian Faces is a queer anthropology project that features Asian members of the gay community around the world. Queer Asian individuals who wish to express themselves usually send in a headshot with a handwritten note about their experience or message, and it is posted on the social media page of Gaysian Faces.

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