Tag Archives : homosexuality

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]