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Archive for July, 2009
Support Pink Pages
On July - 29 - 2009
As you can see, Pink Pages is not a commercial venture, but a non-profitable community effort. Every single member on the team is working as a volunteer, and we’ve all pooled in money and talent to make this project possible.
So, if you too are willing to volunteer, do join in today!
And if you’re wondering how you can help, here are some guidelines:
Join our literary team!
If you have a flair for writing, you can become a member of the editorial board, or even just contribute an article for the upcoming issue!
Join our Software team!
If web-developing or graphics designing is your forte, just send a mail tokevin@pink-pages.co.in
Donate!
Help us keep the website online and in paying for advertisements on other popular LGBT websites.
Spread the word!
And you can always help us by telling your friends about Pink Pages. Mail them, write on their Facebook walls or if you have a website, link up our site to it!
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Bombs explode on Outgames track
On July - 29 - 2009
Copenhagen
An athlete was injured and other participants were frightened when three bombs were thrown onto a track during the World Outgames before a relay race. One was only a few feet from where a sleeping infant had been only moments before.
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Law school wants Govt. to provide safeguards to gays
On July - 23 - 2009
New Delhi
TNN
The move towards legitimising gay rights seems to be getting stronger by the day. After the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality, the National Law School has asked the Centre to recognise “sexual orientation” as a source of discrimination against which there should be statutory protection. The law school wants the Centre to put “sexual orientation” in the list of Read the rest of this entry »
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Matthew Shepard Act Passes Congress
On July - 22 - 2009
Ignatius Reilly
Matthew Shepard was a student at the University of Wyoming who was murdered near Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. His murder shocked the nation and spurred activism against anti-gay violence.
Today, the Matthew Shepard Act, or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, passed Congress. If signed by President Barack Obama, the act will expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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SC refuses to stay HC order that decriminalizes gay sex
On July - 20 - 2009
New Delhi
TNN
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalizing homosexuality. The ruling is now applicable all over India.
The apex court also pulled up the government and asked it to speed up its response on the issue.
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Press Release
On July - 7 - 2009
5 July 2009
Pink Pages Editorial Team
(c/o MINGLE Foundation)
The Pink Pages Editorial Board is glad to announce the release of the first issue of our magazine. Pink Pages is being released as India’s first national magazine catering to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community, featuring articles on gay rights, health, popular culture, fashion, cinema, books and much more.
The salient features of the magazine are as follows:
- The initial issues of the magazine will be released online, free of cost. Thereafter it’ll go into print.
- The magazine will be India’s first LGBT magazine with a nationwide readership.
- This is a non-profitable community venture. Almost the entire Pink Pages team consists of students or young professionals from various fields- humanities, engineering, medicine, arts- who pooled in money and talent to successfully bring out this landmark first issue.
The website of the magazine (www.pink-pages.co.in) which allows viewers to subscribe to the magazine and read articles, went online on 1 January 2009.
Since the first issue is being launched soon after the landmark ruling of the Delhi High Court declaring homosexuality legal, its theme will be “Freedom… after 150 years”.
Also, we are thankful to Mallika Sarabhai, noted classical dancer for her words of support on this momentous occasion of the release of Pink Pages’ first issue:
“The right to be who we are, and to express our true selves freely in today’s world, is essential. Pink Pages is one more step towards this freedom. I wish it all the best.”
-Mallika Sarabhai
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Pink in the Armour
On July - 7 - 2009
Joshua Muyiwa
TimeOut, Feb 6-19 2009
When Nipun Goyal, a 21 year old Delhiite sat down early last year with a bunch of friends to talk about bringing out a nation-wide queer magazine, he knew where he had to turn for inspiration: the largest circulated gay magazine in the United States, Out. Goyal said he was drawn to American publisher Michael Goff’s idea of bringing out a magazine that aimed to appeal to high-brow advertisers by promoting them access to a marginalized audience. “Out talks about various issues without succumbing to the danger of being associated with adult material or personal advertisements.” He said over the phone. “The model makes perfect sense to us”. Goyal and his friends decided to call their magazine Pink Pages.
However, unlike Goff did in 1992, Goyal and his friends aren’t launching he publication in print. “We started it on the internet as a tester and a means to create a readership and as we get popular and have an assured readership, then it would make complete business sense for us to go into print.” he said.” The time frame we are giving ourselves is a year, and the printed copies should be available from January 2010.”
Given the fact that already some queer magazines exist in India, is there a pressing need for another one? Goyal is convinced there is. “There have been a lot of publications but they have very localized subscribers and readership.” He said. “Our idea is to launch a magazine at a national level.”
Goyal also promises that Pink Pages will be different. “It will have many flavours to offer and will appeal to everyone in the alphabet soup of sexuality.” He said.
(Note: The above article wrongly mentions that Nipun Goyal is a Delhiite. Nipun is based in Indore / Bhopal.)
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OPINION POLL
On July - 6 - 2009
Has the situation in India on LGBT issues changed positively over the past two years?
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From the Editor’s desk
On July - 6 - 2009
This first issue couldn’t have been released at a better time. At this historic moment, as we celebrate the decriminalization of homosexuality in the world’s largest democracy, let us also take time out to acknowledge the relentless struggle of those thousands of known and unknown men and women who’ve made this victory possible. And therefore, to them is dedicated this first issue, with the theme- Freedom… after 150 years!
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Maurice
On July - 6 - 2009
Kishore Kumar
Author– E M Forster
In the beginning there was Maurice. Before Brokeback, before Tales of the City and before Stonewall. When most of the western world could only speak of homosexuality in hushed tones, Edward Morgan Forster, author of A Passage to India, sat down to write Maurice in 1913, though he did not allow its publication in his lifetime.
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I can’t think straight
On July - 6 - 2009
Priya Ganoo
Even as you see the promos of ‘I can’t think straight’, you know you’ll have to watch this movie come what may. Personally for me, after seeing the film it has been difficult to keep myself from watching it over and over again.
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Pink Pages July 2009 Issue – 1
On July - 5 - 2009
Pink Pages July 2009 Issue - 1
This first issue couldn’t have been released at a better time. At this historic moment, as we celebrate the decriminalization of homosexuality in the world’s largest democracy, let us also take time out to acknowledge the relentless struggle of those thousands of known and unknown men and women who’ve made this victory possible. And therefore, to them is dedicated this first issue, with the theme- Freedom… after 150 years!
When TimeOut Magazine interviewed me about the upcoming Pink Pages project, one of the first questions that they asked me was- how is it different from the queer publications already in place? And the answer is- in many ways.
For starters, this is India’s first ever national gay and lesbian magazine. All other queer publications till now have been either restricted geographically, or had been targeted only for a limited intellectual readership. This is the first effort to reach out the entire community at large- at an all-India level.Read More
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Freedom… after 150 years!
On July - 5 - 2009
Nipun Goyal speaks to three prominent gay rights activists on the historic Delhi High Court ruling declaring homosexuality legal- Mayur, from the Delhi Queer Pride Committee; Nitin Karani, editor of Bombay Dost; and Harish Iyer, pioneer of the ‘Friends of Gays’, Mumbai.
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Colours of Pride
On July - 5 - 2009
Ananya Dhote analyzes the newfound political and social consciousness sweeping across the LGBT community in India and its legal fallouts in the coming five years of the newly elected UPA government.
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