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Nirali Diwali in Pune united the LGBTQ+ community and allies for an evening of music, poetry, and dance, celebrating acceptance and chosen family.

‘Nirali Diwali’: Pune’s LGBTQ+ community celebrates togetherness, belonging

October 20, 2025 4:01 pm

Nirali Diwali, organised by Yutak LGBTQ Trust in Pune, brought queer individuals and allies together for an evening of music, poetry, dance, and shared joy, celebrating acceptance, visibility, and chosen family.

Nirali Diwali LGBTQ+ community celebrates diwali

At 'Nirali Diwali’, Pune’s LGBTQ+ community celebrates togetherness and belonging

October 21, 2025 2:30 am

In its third year, 'Nirali Diwali’ featured performances, poetry, and music, aimed at promoting acceptance and creating a sense of chosen family among participants.

Over the past decade, more than 20 US states, including Colorado, have enacted laws prohibiting licensed professionals from offering conversion therapy to minors.

With conversion therapy now before US Supreme Court, how courts have differed on banning it

October 10, 2025 8:09 pm

Conversion therapy refers to psychological or behavioural interventions aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Sarah Mullally(Credit: X, Archbishop of Canterbury)

After 105 men, Sarah Mullally named first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England

October 03, 2025 3:53 pm

Mullally will face divisions over the treatment of women and LGBTQ people, and she will have to confront concerns that church leaders haven't done enough to stamp out the sexual abuse scandals that have dogged the church for more than a decade.

Curated by a Maharani, how a garba hosted on palace grounds in Vadodara has become a safe space for LGBTQ community

September 29, 2025 2:03 pm

Brainchild of the royal family's Radhikaraje Gaekwad, the garba witnesses many proudly walking in with special category entry passes that read “Devotion has no gender”

‘Feels like home’ -- Inside Bihar’s first LGBTQ+-run restaurant

July 14, 2025 7:01 pm

Funded through crowdfunding, donations and grants, the restaurant employs nearly 20 people — each with a story of their search for acceptance

Budapest Pride Rally: What to know about Hungary's huge crowd gathered in defiance of PM Orban

June 29, 2025 11:50 am

Protesters risked potential police crackdown and heavy fines to participate in 30th annual Budapest Pride, which has already been declared illegal by Orban’s government in March.

'The shame isn’t ours’: Queer voices on shedding self-doubt, reclaiming love and pride in 2025

June 11, 2025 1:34 pm

During Pride Month, queer individuals share how unlearning internalised shame is changing the way they love, connect, and show up for themselves. And each other.

This Pride Month, let all colours of the rainbow shine equally bright

June 04, 2025 6:29 pm

The word "queer", with its long history of being a term of shame attributed to people whose sexual orientation was suspect, has been reclaimed by the community for more than 30 years now

Couldn't live 'free, open life' as openly gay woman in Russia: Daria Kasatkina on accepting Australian citizenship

April 25, 2025 7:20 pm

Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina talks about her choice to relocate to Australia in order to be free as an outspoken gay athlete in the face of Russia's anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and conflict with Ukraine.