| Bombay Dost | Bombay Dost is India’s LGBTQ magazine, with the tag-line ‘bolder than ever’ — the ‘boldness’ has to do with the forthrightness with which LGBT cultural expression is showcased. Bombay Dost is a standard bearer for the growing confidence and artistic alacrity displayed by India’s LGBT people. Source Website: https://bombaydost.co.in |
| Gaylaxy Magazine | Gaylaxy is India’s leading gay e-magazine. The magazine covers events of gay importance happening in India. The articles range from health, cinema, major LGBT news from India and the world, user stories to issues of importance for the LGBT people. Source Website: http://www.gaylaxymag.com |
| Gaysi Family | Gysi – the Gay Desi. A space where the Desi-Gay community comes together and shares personal stories, their triumphs and failures, their struggles and their dreams, their hopes and despair. And in doing so, gives other gaysis a sliver of hope too. Source Website: http://gaysifamily.com |
| Fifty Shades of Gay (FSoG) | FSOG is an Equal Rights Campaign striving to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and foster a society free of prejudice, harassment, and violence. Source Website: http://fiftyshadesofgay.co.in |
| Queer Ink | Queer Ink specialises in publishing and producing content that reflect LGBTQIA/Queer India. It is an e-commerce site for books (print and e-books) and merchandise from aspiring queer Indians. Source Website: http://www.queer-ink.com |
| The Cake | Youth Ki Awaaz’s section to represent the multiplicity of young, feminist, queer people’s experiences through original reporting and features. Cake provides sustained focus to issues that matter most to them. All done while keeping it inclusive, interesting and fun! Source Website: https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/cake |
| Pink Pages | India’s first premier LGBT magazine and media resource. Source Website: https://pink-pages.co.in |
| Varta Publications | Varta Trust promotes dialogue on gender and sexuality in India through publishing, public events, research, advocacy, training and services referrals Website: http://www.vartagensex.org |
| Queer Chennai Chronicles குயர் சென்னை க்ரோனிக்கிள்ஸ் | Queer Chennai Chronicles is a Queer literature forum and publishing platform based in Chennai. The current literati in Chennai is cis-hetero-centric and it intends to bridge that gap and bring out Queer-centric narrative from the city. Website: https://www.queerchennaichronicles.com |
| In Plainspeak | TARSHI’s magazine is a digital adaptation of In Plainspeak, which was TARSHI’s quarterly publication created as part of the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality from 2005 to 2009. The purpose of the Magazine is to generate dialogue among people in the digital world as well as to create content on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Global South. Website: http://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/ |
| Tales by Queers | ‘Tales by Queers’ is an online platform for queer writers, poets, and playwrights. The space is dedicated to all types of writing genres such as essay, fiction, fantasy, historical, political and religious. Website: https://www.talesbyqueers.com |
| Maya | Maya is an initiative of the LGBTQI community of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. It aims to serve as a platform for queer visibility and engagement. Website: http://mayamagazine.co.in |
| India Queer observer | India Queer Observer is an opinion Indian LGBTQ+ digital magazine focused on current affairs- in particular- Culture, Politics, Human rights, Free Expression, and Equability. Website: https://www.queerobserver.com/ |
| Mush | mush is a bi-monthly newsletter that celebrates the very idea that queer lives are worth sharing and celebrating. Website: https://mushstories.substack.com/ |
| Zubaan Books | Zubaan is a leading independent publishing house based in New Delhi with a strong academic and general list. It was set up in 2003 as an imprint of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, and continues to publish books on, for, by and about women in South Asia. Website: https://zubaanbooks.com/ |
| SCRIPTS | SCRIPTS is the queer zine published by LABIA Queer Feminist LBT Collective, since 1998. https://www.facebook.com/SCRIPTS-338019985414/ |
| Loud & Out | We are India’s Lgbtqa+ Digital Magazine, focusing on History, Health, Motivation, Travel, Business, Love, Forums and many more to understand about the Queer community. http://loudandout.com |
| Burnt Roti | UK’s South Asian magazine Burnt Roti is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others. Website: https://www.burntroti.com |
| স্বকণ্ঠে (IN OUR OWN VOICE) | স্বকণ্ঠে (In Our Own Voice), is Sappho for Equality’s bi-lingual (Bengali and English), bi-annual magazine published in January and June every year. Starting from academic articles, the newsletter is a concoction of fiction, narratives, poetry, interviews, dialogues, art display, comic strips and articles on sexuality and queer issues. Website: http://www.sapphokolkata.in/magazine/ |
| ChakGay! India | It is published once a month by QueerDesi, a student run organisation . https://queerdesiblog.wordpress.com |
| Bol Magazine | It is a digital publication committed to sharing the perspectives of Indian* women, lgbtq+ and non-binary people. https://bolmagazine.com |
| Maya | The magazine is an initiative of the LGBTQI community of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, with aim to serve as a platform for queer visibility and engagement. Website: http://mayamagazine.in/about/ |
| The Rights Collective Zine | The Rights Collective Zine not only seeks to centre the lived experiences within our communities, but also to invite dialogue, critical thinking and introspection with those who engage with it. Website: https://www.therightscollective.com/trczine |
| South Asian Today | It is Australia’s first media organisation for South Asian women, non-binary peoples. https://www.southasiantoday.com.au/home |
| The Swaddle | It is a Mumbai-based independent media company deeply committed to the diversity of perspectives in media narratives. https://theswaddle.com |
| Feminism In India | It is an award-winning digital intersectional feminist platform to learn, educate and develop a feminist consciousness among the youth. Website: https://feminisminindia.com/ |
| Trans News | E-magazine by Transgender Resource Center. An initiative by transgender community to share their point of view to the society. Website: https://en.transnews.in/ |
| Unspoken | The magazine gives all those unspoken voices a platform to share their stories with the world. It is published by C.R.R.S.S a multidisciplinary non-profit think tank Website: https://www.thinkcrrss.com/unspoken-1 |
| Aniyam Magazine | Tamil monthly queer e-magazine published by Aniyam foundation Website: http://www.aniyam.org/about.html |
| Samapathik | Marathi annual magazine dedicated to LGBT community. Source |
| Love Matters | India’s digital Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information platform catering to the needs of young people. Website: https://lovematters.in/en |
| Likho | The Likho website is a media platform for citizen journalists to tell LGBTQI+ stories from India and SouthEast Asia. Website: http://likhowithpride.com/ |
| Point of View | They amplify women’s voices & remove barriers to voice, speech & expression. Using media, education, technology and art, they work at the intersection of gender, sexuality and violence |
| Agents of Ishq | Agents of Ishq is a multi-media project about sex, love and desire. |
| The Queer Muslim | It uses digital advocacy, storytelling and visual arts to create avenues for young people from underserved communities to express themselves, build community and forge creative collaborations. |
| Boyish | It is a monthly newsletter discussing how gender stereotypes affect boys in India and telling inspirational stories of Indian 🇮🇳 men who defied these stereotypes. |
| The Phosphene | A quarterly art and expression, print and e-magazine by the south Asian queer youth. |
| Tilt | Run by QueerAbad, a collective from Ahmedabad, it publishes South-Asian LGBTQ narratives. |
| The Queer Publishing House | An initiative by Trans Rights Now Collective with 50 titles on and by transgender people.Source |
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