Lgbt

IFFR 2025 | Lipika Singh Darai on ‘B and S’: ‘In times of crises & war, people forget to talk about tenderness’

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: Four National Award-winning indie filmmaker Lipika Singh Darai on the making of her latest epistolary film ‘B and S’, Hubert Bals Fund for her first feature ‘Birdwoman’ & choosing Odia over her mother-tongue Ho.

How this India-US womxn collective uses fiscal sponsorship to save the documentary film

Born out of the pandemic in 2021, Bitchitra Collective fosters Indian women and nonbinary non-fiction filmmakers in the US and India, those left stranded by Films Division’s closure, and is calling filmmakers to apply for its grants till December 30.

Rainbow Lit Fest 2023: Winners of the inaugural Rainbow Awards for Literature and Journalism announced

Hyderabad-based poet Hoshang Merchant was recognised for his immense contribution to queer literature as he was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement award.

Five years on, what has changed in India since Section 377 was read down? Three professionals speak out

In 2018, India witnessed a landmark judgment in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community. Half a decade down the line, the queer community on life before and after the judgment, when the Supreme Court read down parts of Section 377 of the IPC.

Heartstopper 2 review: Crackling queer romance comes into full bloom with a coming-out saga

In its second season, the Netflix series Heartstopper is still the dreamy, mushy queer romance it was in the first one. There are cutesy animations of birds and butterflies when characters share a moment of intimacy; firecrackers explode when Charlie and Nick share a passion-fuelled moment. But much has changed, too.

Made in Heaven actor Arjun Mathur: ‘Bollywood has caught the wrong note in depicting gay characters’

Emmy-nominated actor Arjun Mathur, of the web-series whose much-awaited second season will release on August 10, talks about the show, playing gay characters before, not running after fame or money, and his film premiering at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.

Chief of Russia's Yandex faces court case for 'LGBT propaganda'

The move to prosecute Artem Savinovsky, for which no hearing date was listed, comes a day after a different court levied a 1 million rubles ($11,048) fine against an online film database owned by Yandex under the same law.