Tag: lesbian
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The GNLU Gender & Sexuality Forum: A Story of Survival
By Arnaaz Ameer, Gujarat National Law University. How the Gender and Sexuality Forum came about In the summer of 2017, I developed an interest in gender studies. My knowledge of feminism or the issues faced by the LGBTQ community, till that point were restricted to articles I’d read in the news or random journals. Over…
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Same Sex Marriage: The India Scenario
By Vartika Aggarwal, Vivekanada Institute of Professional Studies. The term ‘homosexuality’ in the literal sense means, being sexually attracted to a person of the same sex as one’s own. Homosexuality entails, leading of life by an individual over which he/she has complete right as assigned to him/her by the Constitution of a nation, a right…
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Does the U.S. Supreme Court Judgement Legalising Same Sex Marriages Matter to India?
By Hita M. Agarwal, WBNUJS, Kolkata. If you are one of the 1.5 billion Facebook users over the world, you could not have possibly missed out on vibgyor marked profile pictures over the course of last week. For the uninitiated, the facebook.com/celebratepride filter marked the Obergefell v. Hodges judgement, which legalised same-sex marriage in all fifty…