Contacts for Media covering 377
MEDIA: To request more contacts, especially in cities or languages not listed, please contact Minal: minal@minalhajratwala.com, Bangalore +91 99451 36640,…
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Pointers for media: 377 case
Put together by Vikram Doctor, shared with consent. This is intended for those of us who will be speaking with…
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Media coverage of 377 SC judgment and subsequent developments
Please post links to media stories as comments below. Please include date and city when you post the comments. Comments are…
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Remembering Keya Ghosh
Keya Roy Ghosh, one of the signatories of the parents’ petition to Supreme Court supporting the reading down of Section 377,…
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377 Live Tweets
Below is the Live Twitter feed section 377 Updates. Use the hastag to view and share updates on the Supreme…
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Section 377 – Announcement
Sec 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) criminalizes same-sex behavior. In a huge setback to LGBT rights, The Supreme court of India on Dec 11th declared it is constitutional and can only be changed by the Indian parliament.
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Banker murder in Chennai: misreporting of child sexual abuse by Times of India
ToI article “Banker murdered by gay lovers” (Chennai ed. Oct 21, 2013) misleadingly reports young men sexually abused as children by adult man as “gay lovers”
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Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaf: A Short Note
“Marz, ya Lat”: in her Urdu short story Lihaf (The Quilt) written in the 1940s, Ismat Chugtai conceptualized same-sex desire as both medical condition and as excessive habit, notions that co-existed in the colonial India of her time.
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Gujarat’s First LGBT Pride a success: Surat October 6, 2013
Gujarat’s first LGBT Pride will be held in Surat on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Read post for details.
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#VIBGYOR: Queering the Rainbow
Prashanth Ashok’s blogposts on the significance of the rainbow motif, long associated with the LGBT movement. This series was part of the Chennai Bloggers’ Club hashtag #VIBGYOR, a one-week series of posts Sept 1-7, 2013.
