Interview: French Musician Pauline Mancini On Her Newest Single, “I Want A Lady”.
Pauline Mancini, 24 years old, lives in Lorraine, France. She started music at the age of 16, not knowing anything about it.
Archive for the month December 2019
Kolkata Pride 2019: Rainbow Over The City Of Joy
The city of joy had its first pride, also India's first-ever pride, in the year 1999. It was called the Friendship Walk. We have certainly come a long way since then, with hundreds of people attending this year's pride.
Poem: Love As Submission
He says things to me, he does things to me.
Shh, don’t tell them, we’ll be embarrassed.
Two loveless souls trying to fill each other’s voids.
We make love, and tame those devils.
Animals we were, but don’t you see that this is our way of love?
What India Can Learn From A 2016 United States Study On The Social Imagination Of Homosexuality And Same Sex Marriage
At the macro level, Brinson postulated that the dominant social imaginary surrounding homosexuality changed twice in the U.S: from mental illness to deviant behavior between 1969 and 1974 and from deviant behavior to collective identity between 1987 and 1992.
The Gaysi Guide to Coming Out (If You Need To)
Here’s a guide to coming out – as compiled from an amalgamation of my personal experience, the experiences of people I know, and some elementary research.
Christmas Lights
She stayed quiet for a few seconds, before sighing, "I just– I thought they'd call, I suppose. My parents. It's silly to hope, but I couldn't help it."
Poem: Her
She spoke of songs, music, rock and Cobain
She spoke of boys, home, and love
I listened
People ‘Like That’
when i joke and ask her/ what if i was in love with a girl,/ it is not a joke either.
Book Review: The Sociology of Sex: An Introductory Reader (Revised Edition) (Edited by James M. Henslin and Edward Sagarin)
Although this book is a recommended read for anyone interested in sex research, it’s important to remember that the nature of sex research differs depending on disciplinary focus.
10 Apparently Unimportant Things LGBTQA+ People Have To Worry About On A Daily Basis
One of the more subtler problems– when you come out to an ally as queer, they suddenly assume that you are going to ‘come on to them.’ You have to think twice about everything you say and do, lest they take it the wrong way.
Private Matters
now that the private is political
am i a liberal because i don't kink shame myself
or because i go around calling marx "karl daddy"
Another Day (Chapter 5)
I gathered a little courage and kissed him, afraid that he would push me away. On the contrary, he hugged me and kissed me back. It was a relief.
A Beginner’s Guide To Being A Socially Anxious Queer Person
You like being around people – you like the way their hair curls when it grows too long, and the crinkles that make themselves at home around the corners of their eyes when they smile wide enough.
Another Day (Chapter 4)
He felt completely at ease now and lay down comfortably. I sat down beside him and he promptly started showing me photos on his phone. The very first one he showed me was of his nephew – sister’s son – who was born that very day!
How To Love Someone Without A Gender, A Manual In Four Parts.
You are the object.
She comes and asks me who I am
Asks me to grip harder.
When the moon is unreachable
I push myself into the breachable
Her eyes feel my insides and suddenly
I am nobody.
8 Things To Do On Human Rights Day – This Year
Here are 8 things we can all do on Human Rights Day this year – and hopefully, continue to practise for the rest of the year.
Another Day (Chapter 3)
This time I was not surprised. I was stunned. Who in their right mind would travel 70 km to meet a man they had never seen or met before, except on a dating app? Definitely not me. And here he was, a crazy young lad, who kept his word that he would come to meet me that very day.
Book Review: “Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage In India And The West” By Ruth Vanita
While Ruth Vanita makes it clear that the book is not an exhaustive history book of same-sex unions, she belabours the point that same-sex unions are not (and never were) an exclusively modern phenomenon.
Poem: Phone Sex
You come in less than a minute after I do
But always after me
And I wish you'd stay for a while and talk about the day- your day with me
But the line goes dead soon after
Another Day (Chapter 2)
An idea dawned on me. I asked him if I could call him via the app, without making it a video call, so that we could talk to each other. He immediately agreed. I remember thinking to myself: how can someone be so accommodating?
