Scarlett Johansson has clarified her comment on playing a transgender in her upcoming film Rub and Tug. She said her comments were edited and taken out of context. read more

Perhaps it needs an academic approach to understand the insecurities and discomforts of majorities in order to explain to these dominant groups that equality and social justice are not threats, but something to be aspired for read more

The media leans heavily on caricatures of the community as catty figures but transgender people are often passed over for jobs as teachers and civil servants and confined to entertainment gigs and sex work. read more

On Saturday, citing academic research, financial magazine Caixin said juveniles were heavily involved in the gay dating app, where some teenagers had even hosted livestreaming. It added that many gay teenagers had unprotected sex through the app and... read more

Twitter users showered praise on Sonam Kapoor and Anil Kapoor’s Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga trailer. The film is about ’the most unexpected romance of the year’. read more

The country of 260 million is in the grip of a moral panic, with critics saying the vulnerable LGBT minority is being used as a political punching bag in the run-up to 2019 elections. read more

Cardboard, cans, plastic bags - even a toilet roll - have all found their way into the designs of the group from Phnom Penh’s Royal University of Fine Arts. read more

By making catwalk-ready outfits from waste scooped off the streets of the Cambodian capital, the 24-year-old Sovannareach is now subverting that stereotype, along with a team of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender designers. read more

The constitutional division of Kenya’s High Court will hear submissions on Oct. 25 on the relevance of India’s decision to Kenya. read more

The three-day lecture series, which ended with Mohan Bhagwat answering questions from the audience, was aimed at reaching out to those unfamiliar with the Sangh’s ideology. read more

A mother found out about her son during TV debate, another told him to “broadcast” his sexual orientation read more

Gay sex among consenting adults is not an offence, the Supreme Court ordered on Thursday, reading down a British-era section 377 of the penal code that penalises people for their sexual orientation. read more

A senior BJP functionary, who spoke off the record, said decriminalising sex between two consenting adults of the same gender was alright but the government would oppose any demand to legalise marriages between them. read more

The unanimous verdict of the Court is that Section 377, in so far as it criminalises private consensual adult homosexual activity, is unconstitutional. In arriving at that conclusion, the Court in sweeping language recognises an array of rights which... read more

Courage against injustice played an important role in the fight against Section 377. The words of the country’s top judges are like balm for the LGBT community read more