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A New World: Is Saudi Arabia easing tourism norms to allow LGBTQ travellers?
Saudi Arabia is undergoing a social and economic overhaul. The conservative kingdom has been intolerant toward the LGBTQ community and live-in partners. It wants to change that. It’s advertising to welcome LGBTQ tourists and unmarried couples in the country
India’s same-sex marriage hearing: What is the Special Marriage Act that the Supreme Court is looking at?
As the Supreme Court hears petitions to legalise same-sex marriage in India, it has said that it will avoid personal laws and look at the Special Marriage Act. The Chief Justice of India clarified that the hearing’s scope would be limited to creating a notion of a ‘civil union’. What can we expect?
Germany, France join EU Commission's infringement proceedings against Hungary over anti-LGBT law
In mid-2022, the European Commission referred Hungary to the EU Court of Justice over a rule prohibiting the use of materials in schools that promote homosexuality and gender transition
Reforms, social justice and battle against sex abuse: A decade of Pope Francis as head of the Catholic Church
Pope Francis has implemented fundamental reforms of the Roman Curia including decentralising power, increasing transparency, and expanding roles for lay people and women. During his decade as Pope, he has worked for peace and reconciliation and has taken action against clerical child abuse
Czech footballer Jakub Jankto says coming out 'definitely a relief'
The 27-year-old Getafe winger, on loan at Czech top-flight side Sparta Prague, became the first active international player to announce he was gay on Monday.
‘Homosexuality not a crime’, says Pope Francis
Some 67 countries or jurisdictions worldwide criminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity, 11 of which can or do impose the death penalty, according to The Human Dignity Trust, which works to end such laws
Why India’s first openly gay advocate Saurabh Kirpal has not yet been appointed HC judge
The Supreme Court has once again backed Saurabh Kirpal for the Delhi High Court, saying that the appointment has been pending for five years. The Centre has rejected the recommendation several times citing the lawyer’s sexual orientation and the foreign nationality of his partner
FIFA World Cup 2022: How Qatar has shown liberalism is a weapon of mass distraction
How did Qatar manage a press freedom ranking of 119, when India was ranked much worse at 150? And in what sense is Al-Jazeera free?
From terror to burning lesbians’ genitals, Bengal’s Murshidabad shows demography is destiny
Muslim-majority Murshidabad is frequently in news for fatwas against music, lottery, or watching TV. In neighbouring Malda district with 51 percent Muslim population, local Muslims banned a girls’ football match in 2015 because they felt jerseys were too tight and un-Islamic for women
Love is Love: Cuba joins a growing list of nations that have legalised same-sex marriages
Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriages. From Switzerland to Taiwan, the list of nations giving rights to the LGBTQ+ community is growing
What are the ‘poisoned message toys’ that Saudi Arabia is cracking down on?
Authorities in the conservative kingdom have targeted items such as rainbow-coloured bows, skirts, hats and pencil cases, most of them manufactured for children. They said that these products 'contradict the Islamic faith and public morals and promote homosexual behaviour'
Reading RRR as queer: Ram Charan, Jr NTR's buddy film has all the trappings of a conventional heterosexual romance
All the markers of the traditional love story are given to the men of RRR — a meet cute, a musical interlude intensifying affection, the exchange of a protective thread, a conflict, a chasm, a reunion.
Netflix's first Arabic film, remake of Italian movie Perfect Strangers, sparks firestorm over 'flouting moral standards
The polarising reaction to the movie reflected a culture war between the religious establishment and public across much of the Arab world and the often-youthful liberal forces that have converged on social media.
'An attempt to strangulate an artiste's voice': Onir opens up on Defence Ministry's objection to his true-life story of a gay Major
"You’re humiliating the queer community by saying that the queer community is not ‘fit enough’ to serve the nation because you’re being judged not by your skillset, but by something that is nobody’s business, which is your sexuality," says Onir.
Not there yet! Why India has to wait longer to be able to wake up to a Kal Penn-like coming out
There were many in the US like Freddie Mercury who didn't come out of the closet till they were forced to do so by AIDS. AIDS has never been a disincentive for coming out in India. Social prejudices are.
NCERT releases training material to sensitise teachers, administrators about transgender, gender-nonconforming children
The training material explains concepts such as gender identity, gender incongruence, gender dysphoria, gender affirmation among various others. It also provides definitions of terms that people use to identify themselves; some of these are gender fluid, agender, transfeminine, and transmasculine.
Homosexuality vs same-sex marriages: India's one step forward, two steps backwards
The Centre has maintained an adversarial view towards allowing or legalising same-sex marriage, despite a landmark Supreme Court judgment that read down archaic laws criminalising homosexual relations.
Lihaaf movie review: Rahat Kazmi's adaptation lacks the fire of Ismat Chugtai's story
What Ismat Chugtai's short story had in abundance, — a pressing need to reveal difficult truths through beautifully crafted metaphors — is what Rahat Kazmi's adaptation falls short of, despite staying ardently faithful to the source material.
Graham Norton's novel Home Stretch is an intimate story of a gay man's return to his once-homophobic home, Ireland
The book, which HarperVia is releasing in the United States on Tuesday, is about how the tendrils of pain from a single incident can extend far into the future, but it’s also about fleeing your home because you don’t feel you belong there, as Norton did when he left Ireland in the early 1980s.
Explainer: As Madras HC prohibits conversion therapy, a look at history of traumatic 'cures' for queer individuals
It is vital to note the pseudoscientific nature of conversion "treatment", which perceives sexual and gender orientation as a "mental illness" and homosexuality as "abnormal".