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In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Secret Love and Four More Shots Please!, rooting for romance and desire

At first glance, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire (which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year but became available to stream in India via MUBI only recently), Chris Bolan’s Netflix documentary A Secret Love, and season 2 of Nupur Asthana's Amazon Prime Video India Original show Four More Shots Please! seem like entirely different entities, but at the core of all three — when you strip away the layers of form, treatment, tone, era — is a heart-stopping romance. #PrideMonth

Facing the Mirror: 20 years after the lesbian anthology was first published, it remains a riveting read

Facing the Mirror takes us back in time to give us an unfiltered part of lesbian history, with some of the earliest articulations of lesbian experience in independent India.

Kashish 2019: From MMKND to The Booth, the best short films at the LGBTQ+ film festival

Reviews of three of the six Indian Narrative Shorts at Kashish Film Festival 2019 - Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh, U Ushacha, and The Booth.

Kerala High Court allows lesbian couple to live together after one of the women was illegally confined by family

The court was considering a plea filed by a 40-year-old woman from Kollam district alleging that her 24-year-old partner from Thiruvananthapuram had been illegally confined by her family.

Two Malaysian women caned under Islamic law for lesbian sex; activists term punishment as 'inhuman and degrading'

Two Malaysian women were caned Monday for having lesbian sex in violation of strict Islamic laws, sparking outrage from activists at the "inhuman and degrading" punishment.

On IDAHOBIT 2018, three stories that underscore the need for a perspective shift on gender, sexuality

Point of View is bringing forward many stories through a series called 'Life, Actually' — part of their campaign for IDAHOBIT 2018

West Bengal education minister claims he has 'never' heard of lesbians in the state, says it's against Bengal's 'ethos'

Reacting to media reports claiming that a school in Kolkata had arm-twisted students in to signing a written "confession" stating that they are lesbians, West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee said, on Wednesday, that lesbianism is "against the ethos" of the state, according to a NDTV report

'Gay men love beards, lesbians tend to hug each other': Malaysian daily publishes checklist to 'identify' LGBT members

A Malaysian newspaper has reportedly published a list of characteristics to identify potential gay and lesbian people.

Australia legalises same-sex marriage with landslide vote in favour of changing law

Australia's parliament passed a bill legalising same-sex marriage on Thursday, after the nation overwhelmingly voted in favour of changing the law

Rio's gay pride marches on despite conservative opposition