Bombay HC Rules In Favor of Bidhan Barua

On Monday, Bombay HC allowed young Bidhan Barua to undergo sex reassignment surgery, stating that there is no law that prevents an individual from doing so.

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Make Way For Mizz Jenna Talackova

Mizz Jenna Talackova was initially disqualified from the Miss Universe pageant due to the fact that she was classified as a boy at birth.

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The Cure

Worry not! The cure to our homosexuality is finally here!

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Happy Birthday Lady Gaga

I wish you the happiest birthday ever. Maybe next year I will wish you an ever-happier birthday!!

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It Is Okay To Be Queer

Because this lovely lady asked for our opinion on one of her reader’s plight, and the generous soul that I am who believes in parting with information even when …

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Cultures Of Peace : Writing the Feminist Future

A wonderful line up and it promises to be one of the most interesting discussions on Women’s Writing and the Women’s Movement (s) ever…

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Dressing Our Boys

Suchi Govindarajan wrote a short and witty note on Facebook, about the raging immodesty of men which mysteriously made its way to The Hindu. Unsurprisingly, she found out about it with everyone else- …

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Spotlight On A Desi : Part 3

Two months later, after many sleepless nights and hard work devoted to the project and teaching everything I knew about sexual variance to my group members, the presentations began. The first group presented theirs on Media, Sex, and Violence. Interestingly enough, they quoted Homosexuality to be one of the “main negative effects” of media today, because it “projects it as positive, when it’s clearly an abnormality.” They also talked about how the APA (American Psychological Association) still views homosexuality as a mental disorder (which in fact has not been the case since 1973), and how it was sad that the media was propagating that it was normal.

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Spotlight On A Desi : Part 2

My Blog is fairly new and since I’m so busy with studies these days, I don’t really get a chance to update it as often as I’d like and thus publicize it. This is the reason I haven’t really faced any opposition to my blog posts yet, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. I have faced a lot of opposition to my “public” posts on Facebook regarding homosexuality. They’ve always been very Islam-centric, and talking to them at a time when I wasn’t too familiar with what the Quran said on these topics, wasn’t the smartest thing to do. But I suppose it all turned out well since it made me do a lot more research and get familiar with what the Quran says and find more liberal interpretations of the only verse in the Quran that talks about homosexuality.

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Spotlight On A Desi : Part 1

Editor’s note: In our New Year post, we promised to bring new views and stories from our brethren in the subcontinent, outside India. A new contributor, Rangeelidastan interviews Sadaf Mujeeb, a young Pakistani activist and straight ally, exclusively for Gaysi Family. Sadaf describes herself as a rights activist which “includes but is not limited to, Human Rights; LGBT rights, religious and ethnic minority rights, and women rights, and of course non-human animal rights”. Rangeelidastan says, “Despite the numerous pressures Sadaf has had to face, she is steadfast in her support for LGBT rights. Her determination to do what is right and change mindsets through facts and reasoning are inspirational for all LGBT/human rights activists everywhere.”

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TBTS Call for Submissions

Call for for submissions of experiences, poetry/prose, photography and art from gender non-conforming folks from different LGBTTSGNC and queer people of color (QPOC) groups, organizations, and individuals.

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Banished from India: Part Two

(Part Two of Banished from India: A Two-Part Story with Audience Participation)

The Audience Participation in response to Part One was so thoughtful, I can’t help but feel that many …

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India’s Entry Can Win Planet Romeo’s Ho Ho Ho-Mo Video Contest

Planet Romeo (a popular dating website for men) has an annual video contest around the holidays called the “Ho ho homo contest” and for the first time an Indian Entry has made to the final 5!

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Banished From India: A Two-Part Story with Audience Participation

As a child, I traveled to India every four years with my family to see relatives. I hated it because I got deathly sick from dysentery, because my parents tried to dress me up in girly clothes, because relatives pinched my cheeks too hard. I would now say I had the luxury to hate it.

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Kelly Osbourne: I’m Retiring the Word ‘Tranny’… Will You Join Me?

Kelly Osbourne says

I’m Retiring the Word ‘Tranny’…

via Kelly Osbourne: I’m Retiring the Word ‘Tranny’… Will You Join Me?.…

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On “Passing”

Is a petite-fair skinned person any more of a woman than a larger-dark skinned person? Is the tall-lanky-size zero woman any more real than a short-plus sized woman? Is a married-mom any more real than a career-focused-single woman? If that is the case, then why should a self-identifying not-assigned-woman-at-birth woman be any less of a woman than a woman who was assigned so at birth and raised as a woman?

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Pakistan Transgender Voting Rights Approved

Pakistani Trans-folks have been given Voting Rights. It is interesting how any country can offer a basic right that every citizen should implicitly gain by being a citizen of that country and …

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance or TDoR i is a day dedicated to honoring trans folks who have died outside of natural circumstances.

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