Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics
1 year, 11 months ago

Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics

Hindustan Times  

Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics Hundreds of LGBTQ community members and their supporters took to the streets of Delhi on Sunday to call for equal. Hundreds of LGBTQ community members and their supporters took to the streets of Delhi on Sunday to call for equal marriage rights among other issues. 1 / 5 LGBTQ community members and supporters at Delhi Queer Pride parade on Sunday. 3 / 5 Pride walk supporters with placards promoting equal rights for the community members.

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Satrangi Salaam for Love, same-sex marriage and Fabulousness at Delhi Queer Pride 2024
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Satrangi Salaam for Love, same-sex marriage and Fabulousness at Delhi Queer Pride 2024

Hindustan Times  

Around 7,000 participants brought the streets of Delhi alive with vibrant hues and spirited chants at the 15th Delhi Queer Pride march on Sunday, November 24. “This year’s turnout was slightly lower due to the poor air quality and the CAT exam, but we’ve come a long way.” Around 7,000 participants marched on the streets for 15th Delhi Queer Pride …

Same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ activists rally in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade
4 months ago

Same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ activists rally in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade

Associated Press  

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rallied in Nepal’s capital Tuesday during the annual Pride parade, the first since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation following a Supreme Court order in Nov 2023. LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rally during the annual pride parade, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. …

HistoriCity | Delhi’s place of pride in the gay rights movement in India
5 months, 3 weeks ago

HistoriCity | Delhi’s place of pride in the gay rights movement in India

Hindustan Times  

In the epic Mahabharata, most of which is set around what is considered to be the present-day National Capital Region of Delhi, we find one of the first references to a major transgender character in Indian mythology, Shikhandi, who was responsible for the death of Bhishma, the patriarch of the Kurus. In 2013, the Supreme Court reversed the gay rights …

LGBTQ+ Pride Month culminates with parades in New York, San Francisco and beyond
5 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month culminates with parades in New York, San Francisco and beyond

LA Times  

Christy Gorbet dances in front of the main stage Saturday, the first of two days of Pride Celebration at Civic Center in San Francisco. The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revelers to the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe. “It feels like …

Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments
6 months, 1 week ago

Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments

Associated Press  

ROME — The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched through the Italian capital waving banners, dancing and singing as they marked gay rights and poked fun at Pope Francis. The Pope had to issue an apology last month after Italian media quoted unnamed bishops saying that …

Vibe 25: India marched for love during its first Pride Parade in Kolkata in 1999
10 months, 1 week ago

Vibe 25: India marched for love during its first Pride Parade in Kolkata in 1999

Hindustan Times  

As HT City turns 25 this year, we take a look at the first time love was celebrated in all its forms in India. In an effort to bring the LGBTQIA+ community to the forefront, the first-ever pride parade took place in the country happened on July 2, 1999 at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata. Participants of India's first pride …

Awadh Queer Pride parade: All set to walk for Pride!
10 months, 1 week ago

Awadh Queer Pride parade: All set to walk for Pride!

Hindustan Times  

The stage is set for the eighth edition of the Awadh Queer Pride to be held in Lucknow on Sunday. Poster-making event held at Lohia Park in the run-up to the Awadh Queer Pride For now, it’s scheduled to start from Saharaganj Mall and via Hazratganj it will culminate at Begum Hazrat Mahal Park. “With events like the Pride parade, …

Mumbai’s LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back after four-year gap
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mumbai’s LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back after four-year gap

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: After a hiatus of four years, the city’s official LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back, this time, the organisers say, it will be bigger than the previous ones. “We’ve felt left out all these years, watching other cities celebrate pride in all its glory,” said Winnie Chopra, who heads Gay Gaze Bombay along with Gurleen Arora. But now we’re back, …

14th edition of Delhi Queer Pride: A fight for equality
1 year ago

14th edition of Delhi Queer Pride: A fight for equality

Hindustan Times  

The 14th edition of the Delhi Queer Pride kicked off from Barakhamba Road at around 1pm on Sunday with chants of “equal marriage rights” reverberating within minutes. The first pride parade after the Supreme Court denied legal recognition to same-sex couples in its October 17 judgment — saying only Parliament and state legislatures have the authority to validate marital unions …

India’s LGBTQ+ community holds pride march, raises concerns over country’s restrictive laws
1 year ago

India’s LGBTQ+ community holds pride march, raises concerns over country’s restrictive laws

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — More than 2,000 people took part in a gay pride event in New Delhi, waving rainbow flags and multicolored balloons as they celebrated sexual diversity in India but also raised concerns over the country’s restrictive laws. They held banners reading “Equality for all” and “Queer and proud.” The annual event comes after India’s top court refused to …

Pride month 2023 | Chennai’s rainbow march celebrates the queer community and bold fashion
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride month 2023 | Chennai’s rainbow march celebrates the queer community and bold fashion

The Hindu  

On Sunday afternoon, curious onlookers on Langs Garden Road in Egmore, peered from their windows, as the colours of the rainbow carpeted their street for the largest edition of Chennai’s pride march yet. Coming together The Chennai Rainbow March 2023 saw a tremendous increase in participation since last year’s march. “It is my first pride march, and it is gratifying …

Hundreds celebrate Pride Month at Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023
1 year, 5 months ago

Hundreds celebrate Pride Month at Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023

The Hindu  

Hundreds of LGBTQIA+ community members and allies came together to celebrate Pride Month and participate in the Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023 on Sunday. Organised by the Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition, the march was characterised by high levels of energy, dance and chanting with everyone present in their pride best. It can also result in a bonding …

Pride Month 2023 | Heads up and high with pride at Azad Maidan
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride Month 2023 | Heads up and high with pride at Azad Maidan

The Hindu  

‘Liberty from prejudice and social norms’ was the one voice of the people who had gathered to express their solidarity and their thoughts at a pride event to mark the International Pride Month at Azad Maidan on June 24. Posters and placards with readings such as: ‘I like the wine & not the Label‘; ‘We’re here, we’re Queer‘; ‘Trans rights …

Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco
1 year, 6 months ago

Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco

The Independent  

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco
1 year, 6 months ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Thousands of effusive marchers danced to club music in New York City streets Sunday as bubbles and confetti rained down, and fellow revelers from Toronto to San Francisco cheered through Pride Month’s grand crescendo. “It’s crazy.” Parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are among events that roughly 400 Pride organizations across the U.S. are holding …

Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for societal acceptance and equality.
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for societal acceptance and equality.

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 21, 2023 17:58 IST - 1 MIN READ Pride Month in India is a time of celebration and advocacy for the queer community. Pride Month brings attention to the ongoing struggles for equality and dignity faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. Despite the decriminalisation of homosexuality through the revocation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, LGBTQIA+ …

Pride Month 2023 | What’s missing in public spaces is a sense of belonging, says the Indian LGBTQIA+ community
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month 2023 | What’s missing in public spaces is a sense of belonging, says the Indian LGBTQIA+ community

The Hindu  

In a recent interview, Utkarsh Saxena — a litigant and one of the lawyers representing the 18 Indian couples who petitioned the Supreme Court to legalise same-sex marriage — stated that one important reason same-sex marriage should be made legal is because public spaces in India tend to be heteronormative. “Unless we are granted these marriage rights, we actually can’t …

Pride parade showcases community with flying colours in Coimbatore
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride parade showcases community with flying colours in Coimbatore

The Hindu  

To commemorate pride month, the members of LGBTQIA+ community marched on the Race Course Road under the collective banner ‘Kovai Vaanavil Kootamaippu’, on Sunday to raise awareness among people. Transgender rights are human rights!” The push for the 2% horizontal reservation for transpersons in the jobs in government sector and educational institutions was among the primary focus this year. Many …

Delhi Pride marchers call for same-sex marriage rights
1 year, 11 months ago

Delhi Pride marchers call for same-sex marriage rights

Live Mint  

Hundreds of people took part in the first Delhi Queer Pride march in three years on Sunday as pressure grows for legal recognition of same-sex marriage in India. "Decriminalisation has only targeted one aspect of it but there's a larger aspect and the rights are still not there for the LGBTQIA+ community," said Ajay Chauhan, a participant in Sunday's march. …

Thousands Join Post-pandemic Pride Parade in Delhi
1 year, 11 months ago

Thousands Join Post-pandemic Pride Parade in Delhi

News 18  

Lutyens’ Delhi was immersed in hues across the spectrum as thousands of members of the LGBTQ community took to its streets to join the 13th year of the Delhi Queer Pride March after almost a three-year lull due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement, the organisers said, “We march against the oppressive attacks and discrimination against… transpersons, lesbians, gays, …

Pride 2022 London: What is the history of the annual parade?
2 years, 5 months ago

Pride 2022 London: What is the history of the annual parade?

The Independent  

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Thousands celebrate as Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returns after two-year gap
2 years, 5 months ago

Thousands celebrate as Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returns after two-year gap

The Hindu  

As the Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returned after a two-year gap on Sunday, the unassuming Langs Garden Road, Egmore turned into a riot of colour and song. That’s why I’m glad the pride march took a slightly different route this year,” says Johnson aka Johncy Maria, a Chennai-based French teacher who has been attending the pride parade for over a …

From Kolkata to Chennai, Pride parades bring colours of love to Indian cities | Pics
2 years, 5 months ago

From Kolkata to Chennai, Pride parades bring colours of love to Indian cities | Pics

India Today  

Every year, Pride Month is celebrated worldwide to honour the LGBTQIA communities. Chennai: City’s pride parade was held on Monday, where members and allies of the community came together to mark Pride Month and participated in the ‘Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2022’ at Langs Garden Road in Egmore. Chennai's Pride Parade 2022 The Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition …

After two years, citizens participate in Pride Parade in Chennai, Bhubaneswar | Watch
2 years, 5 months ago

After two years, citizens participate in Pride Parade in Chennai, Bhubaneswar | Watch

India Today  

After the hiatus of two years due to Covid-19 pandemic, the citizens of Chennai and Bhubaneswar stepped out to participate in the Pride Parade 2022 on Sunday. Celebrating love and identity, people danced to traditional beats during Chennai's Pride Parade. #WATCH | People danced to traditional beats as they participated in the Chennai Pride Parade, Tamil Nadu which was celebrated …

Safety at a price for Delhi’s queer community
2 years, 6 months ago

Safety at a price for Delhi’s queer community

The Hindu  

SV Vaishnavi and Victoria Lavelle Despite pride month celebrations and the many LGBTQ+ friendly parties happening in Delhi, queer safe spaces remain rare. “Once, at a nightclub I was attending a party in, a lesbian couple was asked to leave as they were supposedly making people uncomfortable,” she said, highlighting the need for more spaces like Kitty Su, where queer …

Pride Month | Celina Jaitly calls for inclusive policies, roots better civil rights for queer community
2 years, 6 months ago

Pride Month | Celina Jaitly calls for inclusive policies, roots better civil rights for queer community

Firstpost  

‘Filmmakers hold supreme responsibility in being sensitive, empathetic and rational while attempting to make films on the said theme. It is important to create the right opportunities rather than have mere token representation in films,’ says Celina Jaitly As an LGBT ally, you bring a different perspective to the conversation. It isn’t about you; it’s about others and about doing …

India’s Pride should remember its cultural context
2 years, 6 months ago

India’s Pride should remember its cultural context

Live Mint  

At first the pink momos left me gobsmacked. A year later, the first Gay Pride marches happened in cities like New York and San Francisco to commemorate those protests. In the book The Gay Militants, he said, “You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.” But in India the …

‘We found our own tribe’: West Hollywood draws thousands to inaugural Pride parade
2 years, 6 months ago

‘We found our own tribe’: West Hollywood draws thousands to inaugural Pride parade

LA Times  

Volunteers keep the Pride flag aloft during the West Hollywood Pride parade on Sunday. Wayne Smith and Paul DelVecchio stood holding hands along Santa Monica Boulevard on Sunday waiting for the start of the West Hollywood Pride parade. “It’s incredible to us.” West Hollywood Pride parade participants include members of law enforcement and their partners. The West Hollywood Pride parade …

Thousands march for LGBTQ rights in Budapest’s biggest Pride
3 years, 5 months ago

Thousands march for LGBTQ rights in Budapest’s biggest Pride

Al Jazeera  

A group of about 200 counter-demonstrators along the route held banners reading ‘Stop LGBTQ paedophilia’. “Many people are dismayed at the new law and the anti-gay propaganda,” Johanna Majercsik, a spokesperson for the Budapest Pride organiser, told the AFP news agency. “I’ve never been at a Pride before, although I always rooted for LGBTQ people and understood their problems,” said …

In Pics: Pride Parades brings thousands of people on the streets to celebrate
3 years, 5 months ago

In Pics: Pride Parades brings thousands of people on the streets to celebrate

Hindustan Times  

In Pics: Pride Parades brings thousands of people on the streets to celebrate The annual pride parade was disrupted in Turkey when riot police resorted to using tear gas and rubber bullets while. The annual pride parade was disrupted in Turkey when riot police resorted to using tear gas and rubber bullets while thousands of people came out on the …

NYC Pride ban on uniformed police reflects a deeper tension
3 years, 5 months ago

NYC Pride ban on uniformed police reflects a deeper tension

The Independent  

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How to Celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month 2021—Online or In-Person
3 years, 6 months ago

How to Celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month 2021—Online or In-Person

Wired  

Last year for Pride, instead of waving flags of resistance and dancing in the streets, we stayed home, hidden behind masks and unsure of when we’d be able to be together again. For older generations of LGBTQ folks, it brought back shockwaves reminiscent of the frightening early days of the AIDS epidemic, when gay people were left to care for …

NYC Pride parade bans police; Gay officers ‘disheartened’
3 years, 7 months ago

NYC Pride parade bans police; Gay officers ‘disheartened’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Organizers of New York City’s Pride events said Saturday they are banning police and other law enforcement from marching in their huge annual parade until at least 2025 and will In their statement, NYC Pride urged members of law enforcement to “acknowledge their harm and to correct course moving forward.” “The sense of safety that law enforcement …

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