I Am Not Here To Become A Case Study On Gender, I Am Here To Date
As told to Tinder by Taksh Sharma: I identify as a trans woman and have been actively pursuing transition since I was 21, I am now 23. I first came out publicly when I was 21, started hormones and...
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7 Assumptions About Queerness That Make You Very Unpopular On Dating Apps
While the Supreme Court decided to read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code recently, giving equal status to consensual sex of all kinds between adults, there remains a long way to go in terms of...
View Article5 Things That Make Online Dating More Welcoming For LGBTQ Indians
Modern technology has certainly achieved remarkable milestones in the past decade by connecting people to each other, regardless of borders. One of these milestones is the creation of online dating...
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A Match On Tinder Introduced Me To Drag
Siddhanth Kodlekere as told to Tinder: I am a cisgender gay man. Let me start from the top. I remember these moments so vividly. My mother dressed me up as a girl for a tiny photoshoot inside the...
View Article6 Things The Queer Community In India Could Use Right Now
By Sakshi Juneja: Ever since consensual sex among same-sex individuals was decriminalised in the country, many members of the queer community and its allies huffed a huge sigh of relief. The next...
View ArticleIncreasing The Range On Gender And Tinder
I’ve always known I wasn’t straight; that was the only statement I could make with any certainty. I think where the confusion crept in was looking for something to identify as; maybe bi? I was...
View ArticleWe’re All Human, And Deserve To Be Loved And Heard
Alex Mathew as told to Tinder: This is who I am, and this is what I’m going to do for myself irrespective of what the construct of masculinity and femininity is. Before I turned 23, I was still a...
View ArticleLiving Free Of Gender Check Boxes
I think our country is incredible, the best at most things, growing and developing. But we’re far behind when it comes to gender. It took 73 years to decriminalise Section 377 so it makes me think why...
View Article‘My Wife Thinks I Am Gay And I Let Her Believe That, Because The Arrangement...
Vikas, also known as ‘Whiskey’ in the hijra community, is 26 years old. I noticed that all my respondents would refer to themselves by their female name that was assigned to them after joining the...
View ArticleI Ask The World To See Me Not As Male Or Female, But As Just Q
For any sense of community, society, religion or even friendship, you need identifiable similarities. Symbols are a common love for something or reflect a common distaste. But without symbols or...
View ArticleCan We Respect Each Other As Human Beings First?
Gauri Arora as told to Tinder: I think our country is incredible, the best at most things, growing and developing. But we’re far behind when it comes to gender. Section 377 took 73 years to...
View ArticleI Am A Trans Woman, Loud And Proud, This Is My Story
Mona Varonica Campbell as told to Tinder: I spoke to my dad on the phone before I wrote this, and all I really remember is “make sure you tell them loud and proud that you are a trans woman.” I don’t...
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As A Young Gay Man And Drag Queen, The New Tinder Will Make A Big Change For...
With its recent announcement of introducing 23 new gender identity options, Tinder has really opened up the playing field for LGBTQIA+ Indians. With a list of words like “agender”, “transgender”,...
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As A Queer Man From Kashmir, This Is The Story Of How I Found True Love
By Anonymous: As per Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, love is a fundamental human need. At different stages of life, we all seek love, and for those of us who are romantics, we seek that one person who...
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‘So, You Are In A Bisexual, Polyamorous Relationship?!’
By Black Cat: “So you are in a bisexual, polyamorous relationship?!” I am sitting, pleasantly whiskey mellow at a friends’ fantastic Halloween party. It is 2018 and I have moved back to India after six...
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As A Queer Man, My Mother Will Always Be One Of The Best People I Came Out To
“All I want is that there is someone to take care of you when I am not there, it doesn’t matter to me if that person is a guy or a girl.” After all these years, my mother still remains one of the best...
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Even If Others Didn’t See Her As A Woman, She Hoped Her Tinder Date Would
Loving well means taking no pleasure in someone else’s difficulties. Further, love rejoices the truth. It is to be delighted when the truth is spoken, when the truth hurts. With this quote, let me...
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‘In Real Life, LGBTQ People Are Hesitant, But On Dating Apps They Can Be...
By now, we all have a fair idea of what dating looks like for straight, cisgender men and women. There’s the flirting, the ‘will-they-won’t-they’, the late-night gossip with friends, ‘The Date’, and...
View ArticleThere Should Be Equality In Childcare And The Paternity Bill Is A Step In...
In 1917, Mahatma Gandhi said, “the nation walks with one leg only”. Even after more than a hundred years, he could have said the same about the Indian economy. The participation of women in the labour...
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Your Gender Is Not The Clothes You Wear
“The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?” ― Jeff Garvin, “Symptoms of Being Human”. What Is Gender Identity? There are two ways to answer this question....
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