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Archive for October, 2009

Obama Signs Hate Crimes Bill into law

Posted by nipun.goyal On October - 23 - 2009

Washington DC , 28 Oct ‘09

CNN

President Obama on Wednesday signed a law that makes it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Hurling: Ireland stunned by gay star

Posted by nipun.goyal On October - 22 - 2009

22 Oct ‘09

The Independent

Donal Og Cusack, 32, is a solid gold star in the macho world of Irish hurling. Cork’s goalkeeper for more than a decade, this son of a crane driver from the small town of Cloyne has rewritten the way the game is played, to the fury of many traditionalists.

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Pink Pages November 2009 Issue – 2

Posted by editor On October - 16 - 2009

November issue

Pink Pages November 2009 Issue - 2

Check out the November issue for an exclusive glimpse into Roy Sinai’s exotic realm of photography. Find out what Ashok Row Kavi has to say about his years of gay activism. Looking forward to a romantic trip with your better half to destinations in India? Go through your options from luxury tours in Rajasthan to adventure sports in Dehradun. Read up on Azad Bazaar’s sale of gay merchandise. Get to know more about what happened this year at the Outgames in Copenhagen. As Onir works on his upcoming films dealing with male sexuality, find out what he has to say about them. Also a look at all the glam and glitz at India’s first ever men’s fashion week in Delhi.

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GayTech’s Gadgets!

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

When it comes to gadgets, Latest is the Greatest! And for us fags and dykes, who’d rather be dead than disconnected, here’s the hotlist- from cell phones to mp3 players, and laptops to Notebooks!

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The original crusader

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Ananya Dhote talks to Ashok Row Kavi, the pioneering gay rights activist of India. A journalist by profession, Ashok has always held LGBT rights close to his heart. He talks about his early days, his coming out, his stint at the Ramakrishna Mission, and later on the birth of Bombay Dost and Humsafar Trust.

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VAN HEUSEN INDIA MEN’S FASHION WEEK, 2009

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

All the glitz and glamour from India’s first ever all-men’s fashion fiesta in Delhi held here from September 11-13. With over 20 exhibitors and 15 shows, it was all along a world class event. Read the rest of this entry »

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Queer Quotes II

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

You should not label yourself. You are much more than your tendencies. You are the beautiful spirit, and if that is also a label, it is better to have this label, than any other.
~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Opinion Poll II

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Are you hopeful that the new UPA Government will be positively disposed towards gay rights in the coming five years?
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Troy: Love Doctor

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

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Troy : Lessons

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

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Queer ‘n Funny !!

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn’t help noticing how handsome John’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of Johns’ sexual orientation and this only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the roommate than met the eye.

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Echo

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Maryam Laith

Questions of Lust, Passion and Love
Your touch moves me in ways unknown to me before:
gliding softly over my curves,
rising with my breathing,
caressing my soul with your gentleness.
How is it that I never knew love like this?
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Virtual World

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Himadri Roy

Nowhere to go,
Orthodox traditions,
Reality stops with cruelty,
Physical painful tortures,
Claustrophobic relationships.
Nowhere to go, No refuge anywhere, Read the rest of this entry »

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Enchant of Love Part- II

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Sutirtho Ganguly

3. Neel

My bird watching flair found itself at a better disposition as usual, and this time the results were even better. I imagined myself as a screening machine with the search criteria ‘Hot, handsome, sexy …’ I expected the server not to return “Too many parameters for search or your search returned 0 entries!” I found Pune decent enough to harbour good guys, I had developed a peculiar scale of rating a city based on the number of decent guys I saw while staying there. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Line of Beauty

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

By Alan Hollinghurst
Kishore Kumar

Alan Hollinghurst has firmly secured a place in gay literature with his Swimming Pool Library, and his later novel, The Line of Beauty, which ranks both as a modern gay classic and as fine prose. The novel intertwines three different subjects: a gay coming-of-age story, the severity of Thatcherian Britain, and lives of a well-to-do British family and their friends. Many recurring sub-themes include country-house parties, gay cruising, drugs, financial manipulations, the advent of AIDS and rampant erotic duplicity.

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