Tag Archives : homosexuality

Director Rituparno Ghosh Makes Debut as a Powerful Actor

Director Rituparno Ghosh Makes Debut as a Powerful Actor

One of the renowned filmmakers of India, Rituparno Ghosh, made a debut as a leading actor in a gay themed bilingual (Bengali and English) movie, Aarekti Premer Galpo (Just Another Love Story) released last Friday. As a director, Rituporno Ghosh has made extremely sensitive movies both in Hindi and Bengali and most of them have won national awards, international [...]
9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling: What You Did Not Know about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling: What You Did Not Know about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

If you were wondering how hypocritical the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy really is, well it is actually ridiculously hypocritical. If you are gay and come any of these 9 states of the U.S., you may have more protections than the rest of your countrymen or women. The States are Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and [...]
I Just Made Love: A Queer Site that Allows You to Post your Sexual Experience

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

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 nature or if he/she is some kind [...]
Queer Azadi March 2009: Celibrating Freedom Post 377

Queer Azadi March 2009: Celibrating Freedom Post 377

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 the LGBT community of India? The fight [...]
Homosexuality Legalized in India

Homosexuality Legalized in India

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 for the consensual [...]
Gay Pride and Decriminalization of Homosexuality

Gay Pride and Decriminalization of Homosexuality

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 is equally shocking that Indian government [...]
India Celebrates The Queer Week, Pride Marches Held In Six Cities

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

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 men were beaten up and gays and gay friendly people [...]
Brain of gay men similar to brain of straight women: study

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

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 [...]
IDAHO 2009: International Day Against Homophobia, May 17

IDAHO 2009: International Day Against Homophobia, May 17

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, well, a girl. These society-made problems may still exist, but are [...]
‘Good manners’ to be taught to Thailand’s gay monks

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

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 and behavior of [...]