Lgbtqia

With Season 3, Netflix show Sex Education ups its representation game with non-binary, disabled characters

Sex Education has widened its lens to include more stories about queer relationships, gender presentation, intimacy with a disability, and other experiences that rarely are explored on mainstream television.

How India's trans and non-binary youth's relation with clothing is liberating, yet fraught with limitations

Although the Indian fashion industry has recently seen a major boom in gender-fluid collections and brands, most of these continue to remain inaccessible to many due to their usually high price points.

Law prohibiting gender confirming treatment creates confusion, pain for Arkansas' trans youth

The measure prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone therapy, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18 or referring them to other doctors who provide that care.

Year in Review 2020: NBA stars joining Black Lives Matter protests to Bishan Singh Bedi's righteous call, 20 inspiring sports stories

Year 2020 was a low-key affair in terms of sporting action, but there were enough feel-good, inspirational stories to take heart from. Here, we take a look at some such stories from the field of play and beyond.

Onir announces sequel to his LGBTQ film I Am; Sanjay Suri will co-produce

Titled We Are, the film will chronicle four LGBTQ-themed stories from different corners of the South Asian subcontinent.

How films like Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare promote nuanced dialogue on trans identities and rights

The tangible shift in the manner in which Bollywood is maturing in articulating issues pertaining to gender dysphoria, trans identities and struggles lends one hope that the public discourse will also catch up with the same

The Queer Take: Contemplating 'allyship', 'safe spaces' and my refusal of new-found properties in LGBTQ+ discourse

As I write this column just after Pride Month and I realise I haven’t always been this grumpy gay that doesn't want to join the parties and parades. So what changed?

Halle Berry withdraws from transgender role, apologises after backlash: Vow to promote better representation

Halle Berry later tweeted that she was no longer considering the role.

In Aarti Neharsh's film The Song We Sang, a peek into a world where women live unapologetically

The Song We Sang revolves around the romance between Krishna and Alia, an economist and an animator who meet in Ahmedabad during Navratri.

Out of Line and Offline: Personal meets political in Pawan Dhall's book about people outside mainstream Indian queer narrative

In Out of Line and Offline, Pawan Dhall is interested in three main questions: How do things appear in retrospect more than 25 years into the queer movements of eastern India? Where or in what state are the people reached out to in the 1990s and later? What bearing do the activisms of the 1990s and early 2000s have on the lives of those individuals today?