Posts Tagged ‘homosexuality’

I Just Made Love: A Queer Site that Allows You to Post your Sexual Experience

Monday, October 12, 2009 22:36 By Robert

I wonder what the world has come to! A new and unprecedented website called “I Just Made Love” allows its users to post their love making locations on the web. This is pretty nasty! What sense does it really make by letting the world know about one’s sexual experience? Unless one is very explicit by [...]

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Queer Azadi March 2009: Celibrating Freedom Post 377

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:34 By Anna

Just over two months ago, they were fighting for freedom; now, they fight for the right to hold on to it. The Delhi HC verdict reading down article 377 of the IPC which penalised consensual non-penovaginal sex may have been considered a landmark decision, but how much of a difference has this really brought to [...]

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Homosexuality Legalized in India

Thursday, July 2, 2009 8:24 By Rajeev Saxena

In a landmark decision, Delhi High Court today legalized homosexuality in India, thereby giving a happy ending to the long struggle of the gay community and gay rights activists. While ruling against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), that considered homosexual relations as a crime, the courts today gave their stamp of approval [...]

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Gay Pride and Decriminalization of Homosexuality

Monday, June 29, 2009 21:47 By Madhuri Katti

On Sunday 28th June hundreds of gay rights activists held rainbow parades in Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore to celebrate the gay pride along with rest of the world. It is indeed heartening to see a movement slowly coming out of the closet in a country where homosexuality is a criminal offence.
At the same time it [...]

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India Celebrates The Queer Week, Pride Marches Held In Six Cities

Sunday, June 21, 2009 20:29 By Anna

India has been gearing up for its biggest ever queer celebrations over the past few years. This year, Queer Prides will be held in five metros of the country and the expected number of participants will reach numbers as never seen before. Following an incident at a bar in NY in 1969 where some gay [...]

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Brain of gay men similar to brain of straight women: study

Saturday, June 6, 2009 16:16 By GSerrano

Findings of a study that biologically link sexual orientation and brain function are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to this recent research, there is a similarity between the brains of homosexual males and heterosexual females, thereby suggesting that biology is central to sexual orientation.
With the use of brain scanners, [...]

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IDAHO 2009: International Day Against Homophobia, May 17

Monday, May 18, 2009 18:22 By Anna

Human beings have come a long way in the path of evolution. As recently as 50 years ago, a black person would have found it difficult to find a job that complimented his intellect, one may have been murdered for being a Jew, and a girl may not have been allowed an education for being, [...]

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‘Good manners’ to be taught to Thailand’s gay monks

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 20:06 By GSerrano

A Buddhist preacher of Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand has proposed the holding of classes to teach good manners to gay and transgender monks. This set of guidelines is meant to curb ‘ostentatious behavior’ such as wearing of make-up and tight robes. It has been reported that older monks are concerned with the attitude [...]

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Gay Elephant Ninio Leaves Polish Politician In Tears Of Rage

Thursday, April 23, 2009 21:26 By Anna

The sexual orientation of humans have for long pushed gays into the limelight and into the line of fire from fundamentalists and crazed obsessives who believe that none should survive or be given the right to live happily unless their main desire in life is to procreate.
Although homosexuality is neither a disease nor a disorder [...]

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Celina Jaitley Relaunches Gay Mag ‘Bombay Dost’, Receives Flak From Ignorants

Thursday, April 23, 2009 15:43 By Anna

India’s only gay magazine, Bombay Dost, used to be a poor black and white self-funded publication that finally had to be closed down due to lack of advertisers and inefficient funds. 7 years later, it makes a comeback in all rainbow coloured glory and with the backing of Indian actress, Celina Jaitley.
Celina has always been [...]

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