The first song of Petter Wallenberg’s new album Rainbow Riots India is Love is Love, featuring Mumbai’s own drag queen, Sushant Divgikar aka Rani Kohe-nur, singing her heart out. The song, Wallenberg says, has made it to the pride march […]
In its last term between 2014 and 2018, the BJP government tried reforming the Indian law on human trafficking. The Ministry of Women and Child Development initiated drafting a comprehensive law, not just for sexual exploitation, but for all other […]
On December 17, 2018, almost exactly a year after we had mobilised a nationwide protest against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, I was notified that the Lok Sabha was debating the Bill with 27 amendments proposed by […]
The Madras High Court has sought the response of the State government to a writ plea for increasing the age limit for transgenders wanting to apply for the post of Grade II police constables from 26 to 45. The government […]
To celebrate International Pride Month 2019, Love Matters, an online platform that supports the LGBTQ+ people, is organising a letter writing event, taking an initiative to thank all those who came in forward to help the community members. “He is […]
Joanna (name changed) is a transgender from Guwahati. She recently attended an NRC hearing and submitted all documents though the papers corroborated her previous identity. She had no problem as her contact with her family helped her in stating the […]
Srinagar: In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India on April 14, 2014, in a case titled Legal Services Authority Vs Union of India & Others directed that transgenders be treated as “third gender” to safeguard their constitutional and […]
The scrapping of Article 377 has ushered in a new dawn for the transgender community. They are one of the country’s most marginalised communities, living in dire poverty, ostracised from their homes and turning to begging or prostitution to make […]
JUST a month after Kenya’s High Court upheld its laws criminalizing homosexuality, the Botswana High Court, in a landmark judgement, has decriminalised homosexuality and declared Section 164 of Botswana’s Penal Code, which criminalises same-sex sexual conduct, as unconstitutional and against […]
By traditional estimates, the LGBTQ+ population in India stands at 25 million. Although the Indian Ministry of Health told the country’s Supreme Court in 2012 there are 2.5 million gays in India, the actual number could at least be 10 […]
