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Over 1,000 LGBTQ members hold pride parade in New Delhi
Carrying rainbow flags, balloons and placards and dancing to the beat of drums, they demanded self-identification in any gender for legal recognition rather than first registering as a transgender and then providing proof of surgery to authorities, as suggested by a government bill.

New rainbows in small-town India
Buoyed by this, a group of 15-20 people banded over WhatsApp groups to hold another event on April 9. They set up Queer Chhattisgarh, a page on Facebook, and were soon inundated with messages from people in other towns and hamlets, and many from anonymous profiles.

Conservative Polish magazine issues ‘LGBT-free zone’ stickers
The campaign includes stickers with a black “x” through a rainbow flag and was announced last week by Gazeta Polska.

Lessons from a Queer Festival: Tanuja Chandra on why it may be more fun to be gay!
Parts of culture that harden into ‘the establishment’ and become a long accepted code to live by, are also somewhat dead

A ‘pride’ that roared on the streets of Kolkata yet again
On a muggy July afternoon in 1999, 15 people gathered at Park Circus Maidan in the heart of Kolkata dressed in bright yellow T-shirts that said Friendship Walk on one side and ‘Walk into People’s Heart’ on the reverse.
