Ananya Ghosh

Religion and sexuality is a junction not many can navigate with ease. Meet Rafiul Alom Rahman, the founder of The Queer Muslim Project, who aims to end the discomfort around labels and terms, and counter queerphobia. &#8220;Queer Muslims are often characters in other people’s stories. We want to take back the authorship of our stories; [&hellip;]

LGBTQ

Pride

Pride Month 2022

QUEER

queer muslim project

Transgender

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Being Queer, Having Faith: Here’s How Rafiul Alom Rahman Challenged Norms

Arzoo Dina

For an industry where being queer isn’t something that’s normally discussed at work, or socially for that matter, it’s been a journey of many learnings for Bakhtiani

chef

Chocolate

Desserts

Pastry

Prateek Bakhtiani

Sweets

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Chocolatier Prateek Bakhtiani Talks About Being Queer In The Food World

Anmol Arora

One of the most popular contemporary Indian writers in English, Vikram Seth is a proponent of LGBTQIA+ rights

A Suitable Boy

author

Pride Month

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth Picks Up The Mighty Pen To Show His Support

Ananya Swaroop

Navin Noronha is attempting to make the world a slightly better place for the LGBTQ+ community as one of India&#8217;s first openly gay comedians

humour

LGBTQIA+

Navin Noronha

Standup comedians

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Navin Noronha Knocks Down Taboo, One Joke At  A Time

veenu singh

Olympic athlete Dutee Chand is happy to see that society, at large, is becoming more accepting and tolerant

athlete

Dutee Chand

Olympics

sports

tokyo olympics

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Olympian Dutee Chand Leads By Example When It Comes To Living One’s Truth

Nayanika Guha

He launched the Keshav Suri Foundation to embrace, empower, and mainstream the LGBTQIA+ community

Cyril Feuillebois

Keshav Suri

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Kitty Su’s Keshav Suri Keeps The Flag Flying When It Comes To Inclusivity

Tanisha RK

Queer ‘energy’ is a ploy to keep audiences hooked to shows that have no intention of ever allowing their characters to develop or display any real sexual fluidity

Maleficent

Queer Characters

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Queerbaiting, Queer Coding, And All That The Queer Need To Escape

Faraz Ansari

While we have a lot to be proud of, our fight for equality is far from over. The LGBTQIA+ rights movement was born out of the Stonewall Riots that happened on June 28, 1969 after the New York police mercilessly raided the Greenwich Village gay bar. They arrested and assaulted many queer folks, most of [&hellip;]