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On the ever-important participation, leadership and representation of women in LGBTQI spaces

Women have been at the centre of LGBTQI forums and events in Mumbai, ensuring that there are safe spaces for other lesbians, bisexual and trans women | #FirstCulture

Kashish Queer Film Festival 2017: Panel of parents discusses acceptance, inclusion and activism

This year's Kashish Queer Film Festival featured a discussion where parents spoke about the need for families to support their LGBTIQ children.

Dancing queens: Transgenders raise the bar in Mumbai's dance circuit

The Maharashtra government's Dance Bar Regulation Bill is doing nothing to protect the security of the women, as well as the growing number of transgenders in the business

LGBT rights: There's a lot Tim Cook could do in the war on Section 377

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s visit to India started with an early morning aarti to the iconic Siddhivinayak Temple; the visit sent a message to the LGBT communities in India that hopefully Ganpati Bappa will remove the obstacles created by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code

Wings Rainbow, a radio taxi service by the Mumbai LGBT community tries to bring them to mainstream

Wings Rainbow, an initiative by Wings Travels and Humsafar Trust, will begin functioning in 2017, and five volunteers from the LGBT community have already signed up for it.

Time for an LGBT voting bloc? Section 377 and Elections 2014

This is going to be the 16th Lok Sabha but the first time LGBT issues have figured in a major party manifesto. Has the furore over Section 377 meant we now have the potential for an LGBT voting bloc in India?

Open mics to interventions: The many shades of Section 377 protests

Following the SC verdict, while there hasn't been a premeditated change in the way intervention and sensitization programmes are designed, there has been a fair bit of restlessness.