lgbtq community

From Mumbai to Hyderabad, these five LGBTQIA+ organisations are creating safe spaces, offering support, and building awareness through their everyday work. Pride Month shines a light on their efforts, but their commitment continues all year, reaching people through care, conversation, and community.

If you’ve ever hesitated to ask what "queer” means — this glossary is for you. In collaboration with The Humsafar Trust, we broke down key LGBTQ+ terms respectfully.

Absolut Glassware's new campaign Be an #AbsolutAlly encourages India's LGBTQIA+ community to express themselves freely through lived experiences, stories and perspectives.

Author and motivational speaker Raga Olga D'Silva narrates her 20-year struggle to accept her identity and find her place in the world as member of the LGBTQ community, which has now inspired an upcoming movie to be directed by Onir, the man behind acclaimed movies like I Am and My Brother Nikhil.

Ayushmann Khurrana's 'Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan' is an important film for India. But it isn't the first time that Bollywood stepped out of the closet.

Nikesh and Sonu announced their marriage publicly after the Supreme Court struck down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and decriminalised the LGBTQ community in September 2018

“My only qualification for writing this book is that I am a human being,” wrote Shakuntala Devi in 1977, calling for “full and complete acceptance, not just tolerance and sympathy.”

Supported by family and friends, the wedding took place at Chutney Ivy restaurant in Leicester but not without the struggles of finding a priest.

While folklores continue to have an element of extreme bizarreness to them, they certainly don't do enough justice to the vibrant community the Jogappas are!

Alex Mathew, a 28-year-old who identifies as queer and takes to the stage as one of India’s few drag artists, is one such person who had the confidence to be himself and be confident about it.