I Know It’s Pride Month But I Hate StrangeLove
Alex Truelove (yes, that's his real name, haha, look how post-hipster we are) is a sweet, nerdy boy reclaiming those hitherto derogatory labels.
Archive for authorRamya Pandyan
Ramya Pandyan, also known as IdeaSmith, is a writer, blogger and performance artist. She runs a creative community called Alphabet Sambar and is co-founder of SXonomics, a feminist band. Ramya tweets, blogs, Instagrams and Youtubes as @ideasmithy.
Review Fabulis : An Online Gay Community
Fabulis appears to sit on top of the Facebook framework (it requires a Facebook account to login) and works more like an extended application than a network in itself. I guess this has its advantages since Facebook is an Internet phenomenon now and anybody who is anybody is on it (or is that Twitter, again?).
Movie Review : Amen
Harish Iyer invited me to a private screening of the short film ‘AMEN’ based in part, on his life. My first question was to ask if I should dress up. He said, “No yaar, I’ll be there in my regular jeans and all.” Thank goodness for me then, that I’ve met Harish before and I know what his idea of ‘regular jeans’ is. Never trust a gay man who says he isn’t dressing up!
The World Of Straight & Gay-Friendly
Should homosexuality be a deal-breaker in a straight relationship?
What To Do When A Friend ‘Comes Out’
The answer is simple. If you are truly sympathetic and supportive, you let it show. You can do it without saying a thing. Just for posterity, I’m going to tell …
Body Language
A colleague of mine from the Paris office came to visit and stayed in Mumbai for three months. We became friends and I was delighted to meet her again a …
Understanding Homophobia
Some time ago I was at the receiving end of the unsolicited and unreciprocated attentions of someone I barely knew. At 30, I’ve learnt to deal with such situations, practically …
A Moral Dilemma: Being Politically Correct & Not Being A Tease
Some months ago, I received an email from one of my readers. She was a lesbian lady who had come across one of my posts on Gaysi and wanted to …
Butch, Not Gay
What do lesbians look like?
Gaydar
This person was very 'normal' in his body language and expression and there was nothing effete about him. And still I'm quite certain I'd have caught him on my gaydar.
Not One Of The Family
Friend and openly gay writer, Parmesh Shahani in his book Gay Bombay says that being gay isn’t just a sexual preference, it’s a lifestyle.
My sexuality was something that I …
The Straight Voice of Gaysi
Another new blogging project. My brief – to be the straight voice of a gay desi blog. I’m excited.
I wonder who the readers will be. Will they be …
Can A Straight Woman And A Lesbian Woman Be Friends?
That’s like asking if a guy and girl can have a platonic friendship, isn’t it? The question is given the possibility of a sexual/romantic connection, can a relationship exist even …
Peach
Sometimes we are on the same train. I have a ’subject-to-last-minute-change’ schedule. Maybe so does she. Is she a student? Or a working professional?
She dresses like a teenager would, …
