Be-Loved – Celebrating Pride Month through Theatre
In the scorching heat of June 2024, I, along with a lesbian couple, have been shuttling from police station to police station, all in an effort to protect their fundamental…
Sexuality
Demand for Same-sex Marriage Raised by ABVA in 1991: Its Campaign Continues Even as Court Verdict is Awaited
Courtesy: Pravartak Isssue No. 1 (2.12 - 15.12.91) (This is Part II of the long essay titled “Reminiscing ABVA’s Struggle for Gay Rights in the Twentieth Century – A Brief…
Transreality
OK STOP MAKING STUFF UP !!! Take This Red Pill If You Dare Or Stay Controlled : Transgender people have existed since at least The Middle Ages in Europe according…
Sexuality, Marriage and State
Modern nation-states were established to secure citizenship rights and ensure egalitarian and democratic governance based on constitutional rules and regulations shaped by the values of secularism and science. These principles…
IMSD deplores the demonisation of sexual minorities by Kerala’s rightwing Muslims
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the concerted effort by the Muslim rightwing in Kerala -- including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML),…
Who Will Speak Up for My Child, the Drag Queen?
What makes a good society? Is it a guaranteed right to pursue happiness, as our Declaration of Independence proclaimed? Perhaps, as Gandhi said, it’s providing the poorest and most vulnerable among…
Demand for Same-sex Marriage Pending Since 1991 – Indian Parliament Continues to Stonewall the Debate
“Amend the Special Marriages Act to allow for marriages between people of the same sex (or between people who may be inter-sexed, or have undergone sex-change surgery, and any others).…
Asexuality- An Emerging Identity
Understanding what has commonly been viewed as dysfunctional or repressed sexuality is now coming to light, at least among youth. As per the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), an…
Critiquing Transgender Theology: A review of Janice Raymond’s Doublethink
There’s a sad irony at the heart of Janice Raymond’s new book on transgenderism and feminism. After decades of research and activism, she is uniquely qualified to contribute to the…
Concept Of Human Sexuality And Havelock Ellis’s Arduous Wave Of Liberal Open-Mindedness In The Bygone Victorian Era
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ~ Henry Havelock Ellis (2nd February 1859–8th July 1939)…
Indian Parliament Must Apologize for Stonewalling Debate on Gay & Lesbian Issues Since Independence
By Dr. P. S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal The rights of people with different sexual orientations – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual needs to be respected; all the…
What is really radical in sex/gender politics?
The political left, and much of mainstream feminism, is characterized by an analysis of how systems and institutions shape our choices, a critique of capitalist media, and a commitment to…
Justice for Anjana Hareesh: Sahayatrika’s Statement on the Queerphobic Coverage of her Life and Death
Anjana Hareesh (21), a queer-identified student from Kasargode district in Kerala, took her own life on 13th May 2020 while she was in Goa during the COVID 19 lockdown. According…
Misconceptions Of Indians Over Sexuality!
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. ~ Naomi Wolf As an Indian, I should be proud of my country…
Western ‘Political Correctness’ Does Not Make All People Equal
In the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is all about one’s sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how.Suddenly, the mass media…
A Dialectical Materialist Response to The Discovery That There is no “Gay Gene”
Marx’s dialectical materialist philosophy rests on the axiom that humans have needs and desires the satisfaction of which exist outside themselves. Thus, humans must ‘go over’ into an “other” to…
Birth of an era for the LGBTIQ community in India
Background LGBTIQ community has been one of the marginalized communities in the world history that has been suffering from disgrace and exclusionfor a long time. There are around 70 countries…
Section 377 or Why Shikhandi Needs to Go
Today was the day many of us have been waiting for since 2013. That was the year the Supreme Court re-criminalised homosexuality. That case was set to be re-opened today…
Trans genders – The stigmatized gender
Suchitra Dey, formerly known as Hiranmey Dey, underwent a sex-reassignment surgery last year. She has an MA degree in Geography as well as in English and has also done her…
The Unintentional Extremist: Israel Folau, the Bible and Homophobia
What limits opinions? Especially by sportspeople, who are often confused for geniuses of the mind and ambassadors of tact outside their very limited field of endeavour. (Yes, he can dribble…
India: end rampant discrimination in the justice system based on sexual orientation and gender identity – ICJ
Bangkok, Thailand -The Indian authorities must end discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the formal justice system, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)said in a…
Growing Up In The Wilderness In Delhi
The confusion stands in the minds, the body and the soul. It gets enhanced by the challenges and ignorance set forth by laws, society, family, peer groups, faith, patriarchal conventions…
Pivoting The Plus | A Radical Call For Recognizing Intersectionality In The LGBTQIA Community
It is time to pivot the plus. The very symbol that has served as an anachronistic additive for the LGBTQIA community has woefully subtracted. The very "+" that has elucidated the "freedom" that…
Towards Recognition And Identity: The Plight Of Transsexuals in Kerala
The allegations came recently in newspapers that two transsexuals are brutally attacked by the police in Kochi. This is the current situation of transgender life in Kerala albeit the existence…
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