Book Review: The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)
The thing that I liked the most about the book from the very beginning was how naturally it flows and how real the characters are.
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GrapeGuitarBox’s New Single Released- ‘Run’
The most substantial thing I as an artist can ask is for the audience is to relate to my music or my work. To find relevance in people’s lives and experiences is the most excellent feeling ever.
Graphic Story: Love in the Delhi Metro [In Hindi]
If you or anyone you know would like to translate content for us or write for us in languages other than English, find us at gaysifamily[at]gmail[dot]com.
Queering Desires On Instagram: 12 Queer Erotic Art Pages You Should Insta Follow!
Erotic art based in queer lives often blurs the line between pleasure and heterosexual fetishization and objectification.
Book Review: “A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi – A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal” By Manobi Bandhopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
Manobi, like most trans persons, has lived through her share of ordeals to emerge resilient. Furthermore, she has formidable credentials, with a PhD in Bengali Literature and authorship to multiple other books, magazines, and hundreds of newspaper articles.
Can I Call You Mine? [In Hindi And Malayalam]
If you or anyone you know would like to translate content for us or write for us in languages other than English, find us at gaysifamily[at]gmail[dot]com.
8 LGBT Parenting Myth Busters
Homoparental/queer families are creations of love just like any other family. They are made to support, to raise and to fall back on.
Our Chosen Family: 6 Queer Indians Share Their Stories
Our chosen families are those bits of our heart that have been around when our biological families haven’t been.
Desi Queer Horror Zine: Call For Submissions
Horror is everything that doesn’t quite ‘fit in’ with societal norms; it is a celebration of our biggest fears, an acknowledgement of our realities with the volume slightly turned up.
Photo Essay: One Fine Day
It was a Sunday afternoon in Delhi, and the sun blazed hot with warm winds touching the skin. He met Naman for the last time in his tiny apartment, the apartment where they had first met.
Poem: From Bindi With Love
A piece of adhesive
Of the colour red.
The scream of a woman -
“Chakka hai ki ladki?”
Her spectacled eyes
Upon my bindi.
Graphic Story: Surprise!
This Lesbian Visibility Day, we're talking about how ‘surprising’ it is that two women end up together even though they’ve obviously been going out.
Me, Your Desi-Drag King
A lot of people have questioned my gender identity. I have a rather dominant masculine exterior which is often mistaken for me wanting to be a man.
Nothing New
I don't see my queerness or my non-binaryness as the only relevant thing about me. But often, without my consent, it becomes the only thing relevant about me for others, especially in public, which in turn forces me to constantly perform to be allowed some basic things.
‘Being’ In Pakistan- An Interview with Hisham Malik
The videos he has worked on also share stories that matter to him about the clandestine existence of queer folx in Pakistan, a country culturally and even lawfully similar in the violence towards queer people as their neighbour- India.
The Jasmines Don’t Grow Anymore
I was no rebel
And this, was a rebellion
Him, oh! how he still made his Abbu proud
The man stood up against the fire
For the country that he loved more than his life
Achche Din Aayenge? The Road To Indian Elections 2019
The partially scrapping of Section 377 has been a long time coming, and unfortunately, due to this, the general homophobic, misogynistic and patriarchal mindset that most cis-het Indians have had for centuries, has not changed much.
‘Love Is A Rainbow’: Queer Narratives in Popular Music
The content of popular music becomes a medium through which partners express their emotions and the representation of love and romance often become a standard for roles, expectations, feelings (or lack of thereof), and gender appropriation in romantic and sexual arrangements.
Book Review: Straight To Normal: “My Life As A Gay Man” By Sharif D. Rangnekar
This first step into this world, into his community, was filled with uncertainly, confusion, and fear. It is for most people. Going into something and not knowing what one is going to find there is certainly one of the most vulnerable positions to put oneself in.
InstaQueers You Should Give An InstaFollow V.1
We’re out with a super list of some of the most amazing desi artists, activists, projects and performers we know today on Instagram and you should definitely check their work out and hit that follow button!
