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Added on: 11/14/2019

India: PIL against insistence of sex-reassignment surgery proof for passport

11/13/2019

An LGBT activist has approached the Madras high court to declare a proviso in passport rules mandating submission of sex re-assignment surgery certificate for effecting change of…

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Added on: 11/04/2019

The Indian army wants to keep homosexuality a punishable offence

11/03/2019

Officials in the Indian Army want to keep punishing officers for being gay despite the fact that homosexuality was decriminalised in the country last year. Officials have…

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Added on: 10/23/2019

How PrEP is changing safe sex practices for India’s LGBTQ community

10/22/2019

The dating, hook-up and relationship-seeking culture in the LGBTQ community has always had its own secret set of codes that allowed its members to navigate this dicey…

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Added on: 10/16/2019

India’s HIV-positive trans people find ‘new strength’ in technology

10/15/2019

Shoved, cursed and ridiculed, Nisha’s hospital visits were always stressful as a transgender woman and got worse after she was diagnosed as HIV-positive. But a new app…

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Added on: 10/15/2019

LGBT Issues Get a Push From India Firms a Year After Key Ruling

10/14/2019

In the year since India’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that decriminalized homosexuality, Deutsche Bank vice-president Ketty Avashia has noticed a small yet important shift toward…

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Added on: 10/14/2019

Transman anchors Malayalam news show

10/14/2019

For someone who aspired to be a journalist, Hrithik M (27), was living the dream. When Jeevan TV telecast its weekly roundup, ‘Azhchavattom’ with Hrithik as news…

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Added on: 09/30/2019

Devi Durga to click photos, LGBT people draw graffiti in Kolkata puja

09/29/2019

From Goddess Durga clicking a photograph of a visitor with an AI smart camera in one puja marquee, to drawing of traditional ‘alpana’ before the idol by…

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Added on: 09/12/2019

Indian city encouraged trans people to apply for police force. Instead of being given jobs, they were outed

09/11/2019

Forty young transgender folk in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India, left their jobs and homes when the local government announced a recruitment drive for trans police…

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Added on: 09/07/2019

In Nepal and India, parallel movements for dignity for LGBT communities

09/06/2019

I came of age in late 1990s Kathmandu, during a period when Nepal’s capital city was smaller and more insular. There was little room for marginalized groups…

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Added on: 09/05/2019

Year after India gay ruling, a battle to change attitudes

09/05/2019

Vivek Kishore and Vishwa Srivastava hit it off soon after meeting at a cafe, little knowing what lay in store for them as a gay couple in…

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Added on: 09/02/2019

Indian state bans unnecessary surgery on intersex babies

08/28/2019

An Indian state has banned sex assignment surgery on babies whose sex is not clear at birth, a health official said on Wednesday, in a first to…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

The (queer) year that was

08/31/2019

If you’re a queer Indian, the reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (a colonial-era law that criminalised consensual adult same sex relationships) on…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

How Silicon Valley fostered India’s LGBTQ+ movement

08/31/2019

The moment I heard that Section 377 had finally fallen, I wondered if my friends Arvind and Ashok, sitting far away from India in their two-storey house…

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Added on: 08/30/2019

Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery for Intersex Children

08/29/2019

India’s Tamil Nadu state government has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with intersex variations. The order comes in response to an April…

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Added on: 08/28/2019

India’s Chand confident of making Olympic cut

08/22/2019

Dutee Chand, India’s first openly gay sports star, has fought many battles off the track in recent years but for the next 12 months the sprinter is…

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Added on: 08/26/2019

Meet Kerala, India’s First “Married” Gay Couple

08/25/2019

A gay couple in India is getting mass attention for their love. And now, the couple are being referred to as the first “married” gay couple in…

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Added on: 08/16/2019

Mumbai: LGBT people raise clamour for gender-neutral laws

08/16/2019

Two city youths have decided to take the next step in the assertion of LGBT rights and have more queer-friendly laws in the country. To enable their…

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Added on: 08/13/2019

India SC Rejects Review Plea Seeking Same-Sex Marriage

08/12/2019

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of its order which had rejected a petition seeking various civil rights such as same-sex marriage, adoption and…

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Added on: 08/11/2019

Meet Mumbai’s LGBTQ heroes without capes

08/11/2019

In 2012, when the city got its first Gender Reassignment Clinic at Kolkilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri, Dr Dheeraj Kapoor, consulting endocrinologist, was one of the key…

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Added on: 07/22/2019

Two women who fought against LGBT laws in India just came out as a couple

07/22/2019

Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju successfully challenged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which punishes LGBTQ+ relations. The Supreme Court lawyers opposed the draconian laws which…

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Added on: 07/20/2019

India introduces new trans rights bill in parliament after backlash

07/19/2019

India’s government on Friday presented a revised version of its transgender rights bill to parliament after criticism from the country’s vibrant transgender community, who said sections of…

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Added on: 07/18/2019

Bullied by peers, India’s LGBT+ children drop out of schools

07/18/2019

The school bullies started by teasing six-year-old Shemba for walking in a feminine way, and graduated to stone-throwing when the transgender girl – initially raised as a…

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Added on: 07/16/2019

Star India Extends Mediclaim To Partners Of Its LGBT Employees

07/15/2019

In a major gender inclusion step, broadcasting major Star India has extended the group health insurance cover to the partners of its employees from the LGBT community….

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Added on: 07/15/2019

India’s first LGBTI job fair draws a crowd in Bangalore

07/12/2019

India’s first ever LGBTI job fair attracted a sellout crowd Friday as some of the biggest names in business lined up to interview hundreds of candidates in…

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Added on: 07/13/2019

Despite SC Ruling, India Abstains Again on Vote on LGBT Rights at UN

07/13/2019

The Supreme Court may have decriminalised gay sex last year, but it seems the Indian government didn’t think that it was enough to revise a three-year-old position…

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Added on: 07/09/2019

Not My Fault That I Was Born Gay, 20-YO Wrote In Emotional Note Before Committing Suicide

07/09/2019

Despite the Supreme Court of India scrapping Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised gay sex in September 2018, the society has largely remained the…

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Added on: 07/08/2019

Delhi HC dismisses plea seeking rules for LGBT marriage

07/08/2019

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the government to frame family laws for LGBT relationships and form a…

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Added on: 07/03/2019

The nations where it’s still criminal to be gay (as India marks an awkward anniversary)

07/02/2019

Tuesday marks 10 years since India decriminalised gay sex, but it’s unlikely the milestone will be celebrated. That’s because the 2009 lower court ruling was short-lived; overturned…

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Added on: 07/03/2019

LGBTI Asia: From Myanmar tragedy to Pakistan progress

07/02/2019

Homophobic bullying in Myanmar. Rainbow socks in Singapore. A first for trans people in Pakistan. This is a brief roundup of LGBTI news from countries that have…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

A ‘pride’ that roared on the streets of Kolkata yet again

07/01/2019

On a muggy July afternoon in 1999, 15 people gathered at Park Circus Maidan in the heart of Kolkata dressed in bright yellow T-shirts that said Friendship…