Padma Shri Manjamma Jogati Is A Transgender Folk Artiste ‘Married To A Goddess’
For Padma Shri Manjamma Jogati, after decades of emotional and cultural hardship, the Padma Shri is a big acknowledgement.Â
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Woman Sells Jewellery To Build UP’s First Shelter For Transgender Community
Ranjana Agarwal, a woman from Uttar Pradesh has decided to build a shelter home for the transgender community. She sold her jewellery for 2 lakh rupees and purchased a plot of land for the same.
Separate Hospital Wards For Transgender People During COVID-19 In West Bengal, Telangana
Creation of separate wards will allow Transgender individuals access to medical care and attention without compromising their privacy or expression of gender identity.
Meet Zoya Khan, First Trans Person In India To Work As Common Service Centre Operator
Her vision is to support the transgender community in making them digitally literate & give them better opportunities.
A Transwoman To Play A Trans Character: Paatal Lok Gets It Right
We are a country of 130 crore. If we say that we don’t have such people in India to play that character then it’s a problem: casting director and actor Abhishek Banerjee.
Rainbow Wedding: First Transgender Couple Get Married In West Bengal
A transgender friend of the couple, Anurag Maitrayee, said the ceremony was a “beautiful, emotional union of two hearts and two souls.”
Fifteen Transgender Women Tie The Knot In A Mass Wedding In Raipur
On Saturday, 15 couples from the transgender community got married in a mass wedding ceremony in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. It was the first time that such an event was organised in the country which witnessed so many people from the transgender community get hitched. The event was conceived by a Raipur-based transgender and social activist Vidya Rajput and her team. […]
Gayathri, A Transgender Woman, Opens Tiffin Shop In Tuticorin
The morning newspaper that fills itself with bleak and foggy hope for future might go bad with the morning cuppa. However, stories of actual struggles, achievements of the well deserved and a few heart-melting tales often make their way to keep that little fire ignited. S Gayathri, a 26-year-old transgender woman recently opened “Nangai Tiffin […]
Maneka Gandhi Says Sorry For Calling Transgenders ‘The Other Ones’
After calling trangender people “the other ones” in the Lok Sabha during a debate on including information about human trafficking in school textbooks, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi today apologized for her “lack of knowledge”. But is this Twitter apology enough? Shouldn’t the Honourable minister know better than that? LGBTQ is such a […]
Disguised As Bride & Groom Lesbian Couple Gets Hitched at Mass Wedding
Same-sex marriages are still a breach of the law in India. However, amidst the controversies surrounding Section 377 of the IPC, two 20-year-old Bravehearts from Uttar Pradesh deceived their families and got married at a mass wedding ceremony in Agra. Their love for each other led them to challenge the law. As the families weren’t […]
