Jun '19
Winds of change in marriage law?
By Mihika Poddar
Mihika Poddar explains a recent court verdict on the right to marry for trans persons
Tagged Under: Same Sex Relationships
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Feb '19Police cannot stop consensual cohabitation between two queer adults
By Debayan N. Sen
Debayan N. Sen assures that consensual cohabitation by same-sex couples is not a crime Reader queries I’m a gay man . . . recently my partner and I have been...
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Nov '18Will the Section 377 verdict live up to its full potential?
By Brindaalakshmi K.
Brindaalakshmi K. on what the Section 377 verdict means to people assigned gender female at birth I was originally going to write about what a wonderful verdict that the Supreme Court of...
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Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 2)
By Pawan Dhall, Soma Roy Karmakar
Varta brings you the next series of articles under the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’ This is an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our...
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Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 1)
By Pawan Dhall, Soma Roy Karmakar
Varta brings you the next series of articles under the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’ This is an initiative to document five decades...
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Jun '17Sex talk for people with psychosocial disabilities
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta, founder of Sruti Disability Rights Centre, argues that the sexual needs of persons with psychosocial disabilities must be addressed, and that there can be no one-size-fits-all approach to...
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Mar '17Coming out on the charpoy
By Mandeep Raikhy
Mandeep Raikhy on the spaces that his choreographic creation Queen-size has occupied across India in resistance against criminalization of queer intimacies. I made Queen-size in order to take it OUT. Out of theatres...
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Feb '17Time for adult sex education?
By Pawan Dhall
So the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India has launched an adolescent health resource kit that includes information on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, violence, substance...
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Oct '16Qatha: Recalling dark room discoveries and more (part 3)
By Pawan Dhall
Varta brings you the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’, an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our aim in this project is to go back in...
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Sep '16Qatha: Recalling dark room discoveries and more (part 2)
By Pawan Dhall
Varta brings you the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’, an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our aim in this project is to go back in...