LGBTQ

IIT-Madras alumni, Deepthi Nathala's fabric ‘Hecoll’—abbreviation for ‘Healthy Cover For All’—claims to block 99% UV rays, filter 95% pollution and inhibits viruses and bacteria upon contact.

While unsolicited images of genitals are floated around on Instagram without question from the authorities, activists and artists Durga Gawde and Roshini Kumar are speaking out against the patriarchy and detail what you can do in such cases too.

Having experienced the difficulties of reentering the workforce first-hand, Dr Saundarya Rajesh is now helping women and the LGBTQ+ community with their second careers.

Komal Jagtap is a part of the band ‘6 Pack’, which has released multiple songs starring celebrities like Hrithik Roshan and Arjun Rampal. Their videos have garnered millions of views.

Urooz Husain, a resident of Noida, speaks candidly of the journey she has undertaken in becoming a transwoman. Opening a restaurant called Street Temptations, she has broken the glass ceiling for herself and others in her community.

For the first time, Indians will celebrate love irrespective of gender and other differences. This Valentine's Day, #LoveMovesForward.

For him, the routine was to be much more intense, as building muscles take longer for transmen as compared to the cisgender male, who naturally can produce testosterone.

About a month ago, in what can only be described as a liberating order, the Apex Court de-fanged the British era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which deemed that gay sex is a punishable offence. With the passing of the order, people from the LGBTQ+ community in India are now under no legal threat.

The injustice meted out to the LGBTQ community and the roller coaster ride of this movement needs to be understood from the elongated slow march it has undertaken.

"When I was 20, I dropped out of college for a semester amidst a deep bout of depression and repression. That summer, in my childhood bedroom, I finally realised what had plagued me for so long—I liked girls."