The Booth
I tried to remember if the booth on screen is the same booth that I and my partner usually go and get a security check from. I couldn’t recognise it. I stopped thinking and concentrated on the film.
Archive for the tag Lesbian
The Miles Indian Companies Have To Go For An All Inclusive Workplace
At first glance, it may seem like firms concerned with their objectives of productivity and profitability seldom care about the life and preferences of their employees. However, in our naïveté we overlook the moral foundations that can make a toxic workplace different from a healthy, accepting one.
“Chai Peelo, Sab Theek Ho Jaayega.” (All Is Well)
My family, for one, cherishes a ritual that I like to refer to as the "chai peelo, sab theek ho jaayega". The chai peelo, sab theek ho jaayega or CPSTHJ is a delicate ritual that must be performed every time an uncomfortable truth is brought up.
Podcast Review: “Welcome to Night Vale” By Jeffrey Cranor And Joseph Fink
From the get go Welcome to Night Vale has proved to be a queer friendly podcast.
Graphic Story: Baby Bank On Me (Part 2) [In Malayalam]
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Graphic Story: Baby Bank On Me (Part 1) [In 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.
Gaysi Tips And Trix: Binders
A typical binder is uncomfortable- simply because they’re made very tight and in materials that are not comfortable to skin. This calls for better innovation for queer people to choose from.
Graphic Short Story: My Imaginary Friend
Meera made a friend in the glass case she suffocated in for 25 years.
My Closeted Lover
Loving someone who is in the closet taught me how to manage my feelings and changed the way our everyday lives unfolded. I realised that being with someone who is in the closet means respecting them and their privacy, and being supportive.
Rainbow Parenting: What Does It Mean To Raise A Kid As A Woman In A Same-Sex Relationship?
The heterosexual notion of a family ? father, mother, and children needs to change. I want to say there are other kinds of family.
The LGBTQ+ Community Around The World, As Told By Teenagers
In Denmark, especially Copenhagen, everyone is very open-minded. Everything is very accepted—you can be whoever you want to be.
Hayley Kiyoko Can’t Get Me Outta This Funk
The queer girl’s reality is all expectation and inevitable let-down. Like a bad rollercoaster. Or someone telling you something is “super spicy” and it isn’t.
Monisha Ajgaonkar, The Photographer Who Is Making a Change One Photo At A Time
Ajagaonkar’s goals may seem idealistic to some, but sometimes we need the dreamers to help change the narrative, and that seems to be exactly what she is doing with her work.
Being A Muslim Lesbian Of Pakistani Descent
Being the only child was hard for me. Throughout the years, I kept to myself and accepted myself and still felt like I was the only South Asian Muslim in this world.
Monisha Ajgaonkar’s Film “Love. No Boundaries” Is A Beautiful And Accurate Depiction of Same-Sex Marriages In India
“Love. No Boundaries” makes a deep reconnaissance of the anxieties and hopes of the LGBTQ community and seams them into a narrative of love and the struggles that the community continues to face in their path to a married life.
Music Video Review: “Nothing For Our Own” By Hanita Bhambri
How many times in your life do you fall in love with someone? How many times is it reciprocated? Does the reciprocation look similar to your expectations?
Pride Ki Kahaani, Do Pyaar Karne Valon Ki Zubaani: A Couple’s Experience Of Pune’s 9th Indradhanu Pride
People putting up the pride flag outside Sambhaji Park where we were to assemble for the pride, community friends hugging each other, I just felt like I was among my people.
Graphic Story: My First Time Saying It Out Loud – I Am Gay! [In Marathi]
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Screening Stereotypes: Lesbians And The Media
The depiction of queer relationships in media works as an agent of social sexualization and is particularly more influential in the Indian society where sex is not discussed, even for educative purposes.
CW’s Batwoman First Look Trailer Quenches My Desire For A Queer Superhero!
For someone who remembers her childhood in flashbacks of Shaktimaan TV reruns, my father’s imported DVD collection of Superman and X-Men, and copies of Chacha Chadhury and Nagraj picked up for their chamakte illustrations, the reality of a lesbian Batwoman who isn’t overtly sexualized like every female character in comic universes is something.
