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East Coast Radio's #BeingMe follows a true life story of a gay Indian man living in KZN and his journey through life.

The thick drawl of Madras is so attractive, I am almost tempted to approach the loud-speaking, bespectacled boy at the coffee shop: ‘Please lower your tone, you are exciting my loins.’

In Bombay, it’s a class issue to get this far with a carpenter, but some of my friends have kinks – secretly inviting daily wage labourers home for a sex fantasy to be fulfilled.

Mohanaswamy is a collection of short stories that explore the dilemmas of the eponymous character, a gay man, as he tries to come to terms with the choices he has made even as he aspires to live a dignified and simple life.

ShareHarper Collins has published the Spanish translation of Mohana Swamy, an account of life as a gay man in small-town Karnataka. Spanish is the official language in 20 countries, besides being the second most widely spoken language in the US. “Many people tell me it is the first Kannada book to be translated into Spanish,” Vasudhendra says. The corpus of gay literature in Europe is huge. The LGBT community in those parts is curious to know how gay life is perceived in India, he says. The book first published in 2013, Mohana Swamy has gone into five reprints in Kannada. Its English translation by Rashmi Terdal appeared a little later. “It is also being translated into Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Mohana Swamy was received well in Kannada, with girls and women identifying with the character of Mohana Swamy,” Vasudhendra, who …

Outcast is looking for literary works that challenge the norm and break boundaries for their forthcoming anthology. They are looking for thoughtful, inspiring and daring queer work.

You may be young to understand love but you can understand desire. Or maybe it is love...when just being within the same perimeter as her is all you want, and just a glimpse of her face makes your day.

Sridevi’s cavalier reappropriation of filmy womanhood ensured the rise of the “other”, the outliers and the freaks that languish in prisons of self-expression. No wonder she was India’s queer icon.