Cock au vin: how to cook stag penis soup, a niche Chinese delicacy
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CHENNAI: Representatives of nine dalit groups and ten other outfits pledged their support to DMK on Tuesday, in the presence of party treasurer M K Stalin and senior leaders like R S...
View Article‘Coimbatore South AIADMK candidate suppressed information’
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate ‘Amman’ K. Arjunan’s nomination to contest the Coimbatore South Assembly seat should be rejected as he suppressed information in the affidavit,...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries
The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the...
View ArticleIndia abstains from UN vote on LGBT rights watchdog; activists slam PM Modi's...
-->"India not supporting it in UN shows you are homophobic and a biphobic," said transgender activist Akkai Padmashali. Expressing disappointment over India's move to abstain from voting in the UN...
View ArticleFinally, our voices are being heard in God's Own Country
I am gay, I am lesbian, I am transgender, I am intersex..." screamed the members of the LGBT community as they moved through the streets of Kozhikode. People crowded around them, some curious, others...
View ArticleNot My Rights Movement
Currently, LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA is believed to be the world’s longest acronym used to describe human sexual orientations and gender identities. Chances are it’s already been surpassed by an even longer...
View ArticleTransgenders pour heart out in first album for equal rights
NEW DELHI: Music is a universal leveller. And, in a first of sorts, nine transgenders hope to achieve that with their first album—Songs of the Caravan—launched in the capital on Saturday by CPI MP...
View ArticleKerala to host first sports meet exclusively for transgender athletes
Kerala will hold an exclusive day-long transgender athletic meet, a first in the country, at the central stadium in the state capital on April 28. The event reflects the state’s policy to stop the...
View ArticleSwami Ayyappan: 1975
The first film on a temple in Kerala was made in Tamil, K. Subramaniam’s Ananthasayanam (1942) that told the story of Lord Padmanabha, the presiding deity of the famous Padmanabhaswami Temple, in the...
View Article“I Want to Live With My Head Held High”
Summary In recent years the government of Bangladesh has taken important steps toward acknowledging and protecting hijras, but the implementation of promising decrees and programs has exposed hijras to...
View Article85 candidates in the fray from Thoothukudi
A total of 85 candidates are in the fray in the six Assembly constituencies, District Election officer M. Ravikumar said here on Monday after releasing the list of candidates. In Thoothukudi...
View ArticleBreaking free
“Recognition of transgenders as a third gender is not a social or medical issue but a human rights issue,” declared Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan in April 2014 when the Indian Supreme Court recognised...
View ArticleRight is might
We all know of their stories of pain, loss and struggles, but that they also rise above all of it, is not a usual narrative for the society. With Akkai Padmashali receiving the State Rajyotsava Award —...
View ArticleTransgender? A Doctor Won’t See You Now
Trans patients face do-or-die situations when trying to find transition care. But the medical community is not ready for them. Shop ▾ “This is not about [some hazy notion of] being able to be who you...
View Article“All Five Fingers Are Not the Same”
Summary All five fingers are not the same…. People should be respected for who they are. —Thehan, 43-year-old gay man, Colombo, November 2015 In Sri Lanka, there are two frames: man and woman. Society...
View ArticleLiberty, equality, identity: Giving wings to the transgender community in India
In April last year, the Rajya Sabha passed The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014, heralding the first steps towards equality for the transgender (TG) community. Paving the way for a law, the...
View ArticleIndian ad with transgender mom stirs debate -- and tears
New Delhi (CNN)An advert challenging the norms of a traditional family in India has gone viral, with more than 9 million views on YouTube. The ad's storyline pushes the issue of transgender rights...
View ArticlePanneerselvam worked against Amma's govt: TN CM Palaniswami
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday lashed out at former state chief minister O. Panneerselvam, saying that the latter worked against late J. Jayalalithaa's...
View ArticleTamil Nadu, once a pioneering state for welfare of transgenders, now shuns...
The jasmine scented smoke from the incense sticks clouds the office as K Jeeva puts away her work for the next meeting. Her hands move nimbly across the desk and sift through the files before...
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