Gender and Sexuality

Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other

The selectiveness of medieval Muslim or medieval Rajput history in contestation is not just deliberate effort to alienate these two communities but is also a Brahmanical viewpoint that refuses to subject Peshwa or Maratha history to a similar brand of selectivity

Taste The Rainbow: 10th Queer Pride Celebration, Delhi

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Samajwadi Party fields transgender Gulshan Bindu as mayor candidate in Ayodhya

Samajwadi Party has declared its list of candidates for...

Egyptian MPs seek to ban gay sex, gay social activities and rainbow flags

Amid the continuing moral panic over homosexuality in Egypt,...

India’s first transgender Sarpanch vows to turn her village into an ideal village

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Egypt: Somewhere over the rainbow there are police ready to pounce

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Taiwan, 1st Asian Country to Legalize Gay Marriage, Shouldn’t India Follow Suit?

In a landmark judgement delivered on May 23, judges...

‘Concentration camps’ opened for Gay Men in Chechnya

Chechnyan President Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo credit: Getty imagesRussian newspapers...

Women marching worldwide revive a long-sought dream: global feminism

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