Understanding gender affirmation surgery: A surgeon’s perspective

Medical realities, mental health, stigma and the promise of inclusion in India’s evolving transgender healthcare

Seeing the self: Transgender persons in Delhi find hope in surgery, but hurdles remain

The Capital is seeing a rise in gender affirmation surgeries, but bureaucratic delays, social stigma and lack of support infrastructure continue to plague access and outcomes

How inclusive are city’s queer spaces?

Queer spaces are usually imagined as class-less and caste-less spaces where sexual identity predominantly rules. However, these sexual identities are mostly interwoven with class or other social landscapes that are often ignored within the framework of sexual politics

Pride Month incoming: What’s in a pronoun?

While using ‘he’ and ‘she’ as gender-identity pronouns is the norm in heterosexual India, there is a large section of queer India that does not want to stay confined in the tussle of choosing between these binaries. In light of the June LGBTQIA+ pride month, Patriot looks at how have Delhiites received the usage of gender and preferred pronouns

Stories of Pride 

As the pride month comes to an end, here’s a look at some of the diverse LGBTQIA+ stories on Pratilipi, India’s largest digital publishing and storytelling platform for homegrown writers To celebrate the pride month, Pratilipi has presented some of the finest LGBTQIA stories every weekend of June, in four different regional languages including Hindi, […]

Characters out of the closet

This Pride Month, let’s take a look at some of the best queer characters that Bollywood has given us in the last two years From an urban man who boldly explores his sexuality to an alpha male whose orientation is one big secret – here’s how some Bollywood characters belonging to the LGBTQ characters in […]

WAVING THE RAINBOW FLAG

In a country often plagued with a dangerously dichotomous society, the occasional splash of rainbow colours is a welcome change. International Pride month is here, and India is by no means behind in championing the fight for the LGBTQIA community to be heard The Patriot spoke to some proud members of the Pride community in […]