377 Quit India!
by Gayeti Singh (August 2008)
Queer Azadi Pride March Mumbai 08
Photos of Mumbai's First Queer Azadi Pride March
Mumbai - August 16, 2008
India's First Gay Pride March, June 29, 2008 / June 30, 2008: News Reports
- Sexuality minorities march with pride (The Hindu)
- Gays Parade for Equal Rights (NDTV)
- Gays, Lesbians Take to the Streets (Hindustan Times)
- Gay Pride Delhi Style (Time)
- Gay Pride March Debuts in India (BBC)
- Video Clip of Scenes from the gay rights protest in Delhi (BBC)
- Proud in New Delhi : India's uneasy relationship with gay pride.
by Daniel Pepper | Newsweek Web Exclusive, June 30, 2008
Pride, prejudice and politics
by Gautam Bhan (Indian Express, June 28, 2008)
'Queer Pride' parade on Delhi streets
by IANS (NDTV, June 23, 2008)
Tamil Nadu takes the progressive step of recognising transgender . . .
Editorial, EPW, June 21, 2008
Questioning norms and bodies
by Shalini Mahajan (Seminar, March 2008)
Nepal Court Rules on Gay Rights
(BBC, 21 December 2007)
India's gays tiptoe anonymously into the limelight
by Amelia Gentleman (The Observer, May 27, 2007)
Fighting for their rights
a newsreport (The Times of India, 18 Mar, 2007)
Wrapped in a Cocoon : Sexual Minorities in West Bengal
by Prothoma Rai Chaudhri (Economic
and Political Weekly, March 17, 2007)
Revise Section 377:
Sodomy and rape should not receive equal treatment
- Arvind Narrain & Vivek Divan ( The Times of India, 12 Jan, 2007)
Section 377 and the Dignity of Indian Homosexuals
- Alok Gupta (Economic
and Political Weekly, November 18, 2006)
Pakistan's ground breaking drag artist
- Syed Shoaib Hasan (BBC, November 6, 2006)
India:
Human Rights versus Section 377
- Anil Divan
(The Hindu, October 12, 2006)
Open
Letter for the overturning of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
- Vikram Seth
and Others (September 2006)
Statement in support of the
Open Letter by Vikram Seth and others re section 377 of the
Indian Penal Code
- Amatya Sen
(Hindustan Times, September 15, 2006)
Desine
Denied, desire defined (A book review)
- Gautam Bhan (Tehelka, July 8, 2006)
Sexuality:
A Realm of Politics (Book
review of 'Sexuality,
Gender
and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and South-East Asia edited
by Geetanjali Mishra, Radhika Chandiramani;
Sage, New Delhi, 2005)
- Arvind Narrain
(Economic
and Political Weekly, March 25, 2006)
Nothing
Unnatural About it
- Rakesh Shukla
(The Times of
India, February 13, 2006)
Nepal
Police on 'Sexual Cleansing' Drive
-
Human Rights
Watch Press Release (January 13, 2006)
Letter
to Indian Prime Minister Singh
On the
arrest of four
men on charges of homosexual conduct in Lucknow
-
Scott Long,
Human Rights Watch (January 11, 2006)
A
Historical Fact (Book Review
: Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the
West, Ruth
Vanita)
- by Anita
Joshua (January 1,
2006)
Nepal: Social Exclusion of Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Sunil Babu Pant (Blue Diamond Society, October 2005)
India:
A battle for sexual rights
- Siddharth
Narain (Frontline May
7-May 20, 2005)
India:
Protest against using law 'to harass sexual minorities' (The
Hindu, March 1, 2005)
Love/Friendship/Desire
An
Interview with Ruth Vanita, author of Same Sex Love in India
- Elyse
Weingarten (March 2005)
Canada
gay union Bill raises storm in Punjab (Times of
India, January
28, 2005)
Crossing
sexual boundaries in Nepal
- Charles Haviland (BBC, January 26, 2005)
Homosexual
victim exposes the Delhi press
In the case of a double murder in Delhi, it is the "dark underbelly"of
print journalism rather than homosexuality that needs to be examined
- Aniruddha Dutta [9/8/2004 ]
Sexuality and Identity: Hetero-Normativity as Censorship
by Akshay Khanna (2004)
India:
It's a queer case!
- Namita Bhandare (The Hindustan Times, August 17,
2004)
Strange mindset
-
Anjali Gopalan (Letter to The Hindustan Times,
August 17, 2004)
Nepal:
Sexual Rights Group at Risk of Closure
- Human Rights Watch Press
Release
(July 23, 2004)
Pro-Gay
Movement Gathers Steam in India
(OneWorld, UK, July
2, 2004)
India:
'Lesbians want space, not publicity'
-
Bachi Karkaria (Times of
India, June 19, 2004)
India:
Dear
Mr Razdan, homosexuals are not freaks
- Tejal Shah (Times of India, June 14,
2004)
A
perspective from India: Homosexuality stands criminalized because of a
mid 19th century colonial law
- Aditya Bondyopadhyay (April 13, 2004
Palais des Nations, Geneva; Switzerland)
There are no short cuts to queer utopia: Sodomy, law and social change
- Arvind Narrain (Lines, February 2004)
India:
Section
377: How natural is normal?
- Nivedita Menon (SACW, January 1, 2004)
India:
Sexuality and Law [campaign against the repeal of section
377]
- Siddharth Narrain (Frontline
Dec.20, 2003-Jan.2,
2004)
Draft of
Open Letter Challenging Government of India's assertion not to
decriminalise homosexuality and to create public opinion
India:
Law - Punishment of Crimes for Enforcement of Morality
- Rakesh Shukla (October 30, 2003)
In a twilight world - The eunuchs of India
- Siddarth Narrrain (October 11, 2003)
Minority
Matters
- Anjali Gopalan (Interview, The Times of India, September
20, 2003)
Gays in India : Keeping the closet door closed
- Siddharth Srivastava (International Herald Tribune, September 17, 2003)
Why
should homosexuality be a crime?
- (The Times of India, September 19, 2003)
Same-sex
South Asia
- M V Ramana (Himal Magazine July 2003)
Human
rights violations against sexuality minorities in India
- A PUCL-K fact-finding report about Bangalore (2003)
Police
Abuse of AIDS Workers Worsens Epidemic in India
- Human Rights Watch (2002)
Lesbian
Activism in Sri Lanka
- Women's
Support Group of the
Companions on a Journey
(Lines,
May 2002)
'End
psychiatric abuse against homosexuals in India'
- IGHLRC ALert (2001)
For
People Like Us
- Ashwini Sukthankar (New Internationalist 328,
October 2000)
The
Law and Homosexuality in India
- Sherry Joseph
(CEHAT. International
Conference on Preventing Violence, Caring for Survivors, Nov 28-30,
1998. YMCA, Mumbai)