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Jan 24, 2025 | 
gaysifamily.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Editor’s Note: As we wrap up 2024 with this list of notable queer media, it’s important to acknowledge its scope: the list largely highlights Hindi and American mainstream releases that are OTT-friendly. This focus reflects the dominance of specific media ecosystems while unintentionally sidelining other regions and perspectives. The machinery of global entertainment often silences diverse queer voices by failing to invest in them.
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May 28, 2024 | 
queerbeat.org | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Shah Rukh Khan really screwed me over when he said “pyaar dosti hai” (love is friendship). The sentence, left alone by itself, is majestic, even revolutionary. But the rest of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai reduces the idea of friendship to what popular culture more or less imagines what ‘romantic or sexual love’ is — highly gendered relationships.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
feminisminindia.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Sarbpreet Singh, a playwright, poet and a commentator is most widely known for penning down The Night Of Restless Spirits, The Camel Merchant of Philsdelphia, The Story of Sikhs: 1469 -1708and Kultar’s Mime, a poem on the 1984 Sikh Genocide. Singh also founded and runs Gurmat Sangeet Project, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of traditional Sikh culture. His podcast has been listened to in over 90 countries.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
feminisminindia.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
The primary aim of the legal discourse in deciding the age of consent has been with the intention of protecting children from sexual abuse (following a protectionist approach). The Romeo and Juliet Laws are related to the age of consent reformation pertaining to the initiatives to raise or lower the age of consent.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Navin Noronha started his open mic journey in 2014, and has spent years crafting his solo comedy show ‘The Good Child.’ The show is a testament to Navin’s skills as a stand up comedian and has turned him into one of the most beloved and well known queer comedic voices in the country. ‘The Good Child’ has been defined as Navin’s life story told through jokes and he has traveled the country and Australia in 2020 mesmerizing audiences everywhere.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Religion As The Driving Wheel For Sex EducationThere are not really many reasons that justify the existence of OMG 2, a lengthy lesson on male pleasure. While the movie tackles the need for sex education in India, it seems like the makers didn’t even revisit to understand what ‘Sex Education’ entails. The story follows Vivek who’s suspended from his school after a video of him masturbating in the school washroom goes viral.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
feminisminindia.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Friendship is a theme that has been a lesser explored focus of media (most focused is romance) from “buddy” movies targeted at male audiences to sisterhood movies to road trips. It still remains a prominent theme about how we connect with other people through shared experiences or differences that are worlds apart.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
It should be noted that surrogacy is still illegal in Italy so most non-biological parents make special cases for adopting a child. And as per the new policy that aims for only the biological parent of a child to be mentioned on the birth certificate, men in same-sex couples must choose one of the two to be the legal father. In a blow to queer rights in Italy, lesbian couples are no longer recognised as legal parents on birth certificates.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
The short film Aadat follows the story of a young man in a conservative society. Set in Pakistan, the Iqran Rasheed directorial largely centers on desires with the plot involving Kashif hiring a sex worker (Tariq) to initiate an emotional and sexual connection. The film has been marketed as a South Asian Queer Story where we follow Kashif as he lies about going to study with a friend. Then he calls Tariqm, hinting that they met in a park first.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Rajeev Anand Kushwah
In what has been pretty concerning news, two MLAs had demanded that the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Act, 2009 should be amended, with introducing certain conditions for the registration of love marriages. The specificity here requires registration of the marriage in the same taluka where the girl is living and also within the presence of local witnesses and with the consent of parents.
