My mother thought my partner made me gay
An excerpt from Homo and Juliet: Queer & Lesbian Love Stories by Shruti Chakravarty
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My brusque grandmother’s tender love story
They met as schoolgirls, married men, raised children, ran households—but they held on to each other through it all
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Do we really care about what happens to queer people when they age?
An excerpt from Unfinished Equality: Discrimination, Resistance and Hope in Queer India by queer activist, archivist, and researcher Pawan Dhall
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Things I learned on bad dates
An excerpt from Queer India Now, co-edited by Dhrubo Jyoti and Dhamini Ratnam
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How my disability shaped the way my father approached my queer relationship
Coming out as a disabled queer woman taught me how love, safety, and worth are quietly negotiated in some families.
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The weight of masculinity is robbing trans masc persons of love
Trans masc persons struggle to be seen and desired as masculine while they resist toxic tropes. Will cishet and queer communities catch up?
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“I have you in me”: How my queer lover saved my life
Sometimes, love looks like someone holding your hand through a panic attack
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An Ode to My Queer Platonic Lovers
Queer platonic love is the ailaan [proclamation] that my love can form any and every shape, that it can shift, that it is beyond definition.
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I’m a pansexual woman, I married a straight man. Then everyone started erasing me.
When you’re queer but people don’t know it, they tell you the worst queerphobic jokes.
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How chronic illness and neurodivergence shaped a queer love story
Pratyusha and Anushree show what it takes to build a relationship in the face of everyday mental and physical health challenges.
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Love and loss in Multai
Queer love is often forbidden in small town India. Two women, separated by caste, class, and religion, dared to defy the order.
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There’s someone just like you: The possibilities of trans loving trans
The becoming assertion of trans persons loving each other
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