As told to Stotropama Mukherjee I grew up in a time when we didn’t know the word lesbian in our city. Gay men just meant happy people. I wasn’t aware of who or what I was while growing up. It was not till my first year in MA that I openly used ‘bisexual’ to describe […]
How a Gay Friend Helped Her Accept Herself as a Lesbian Read More »
As told to Eleena Sanyal (Names changed to protect identities) My husband Lalit and I brought up our sons in Mumbai. I recently retired from a public sector job and Lalit retired 3 years ago as a scientist although he says, could a scientist ever retire? My older son Milind is now 31 and Kshitij
How She Came To Accept That Her Son Was Gay Even as Her Husband Stayed Aloof Read More »
“Hey Ajay, are you gay?” I asked, as we smoked spirals into the branches of the tree overhead. At the back of my mind I thought to myself, “What’s the worst that will happen? He will be offended.” We were both lecturers at the same college, teaching the same classes. He taught management studies, I,
Incredible story of a teacher who was funny, dirty and gay Read More »
I go by the name of Nomad. Some even call me Hobo. Primarily because for the last seven years of my life I have been floating. Floating in the sense that I had no permanent home address and I was job-hopping every three months while studying full-time. I am Muslim and gay. I’m from a
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I think we’re all different flavours in the stirring pot of life, and we do things differently. That’s what makes us unique and builds us up as humanity. It’s funny to see how different we are as men and women, and how gay and straight couples do things differently. The Surprising Advantages Of Being a
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(As told to Pooja Sharma Rao)Names changed to protect identities Today I sat again by the huge French window in the attic of our ancestral palatial house located on the Jakhu hill in Shimla. The city lights spread out below me like a dark blanket studded with stars. Today I was again thinking about my
How my gay brother was driven to his death by our parents Read More »
The theme of homosexuality in mythology is quite common. Many mythologies depict this as a sexual act in terms of same-sex relationships or deal with the subject as it is. No mythologies address the subject as taboo or unnatural. Mythologies of the world treat the subject as just another manifestation of erotic expression and don’t
It is unbelievable how Achilles’ gay relationship changed the course of the Trojan war Read More »
How did they build a wonderful marriage even though he was gay and happily married to a woman
He Was Gay And Happily Married To A Woman Read More »
Most of us have experienced jealousy. But while mild expressions of it can be healthy for a relationship, it is when it is taken to the extremes that it becomes a deadly killer of relationships. The Beginning of the Relationship Once upon a time, I met a guy and we started out as friends and
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Being happy in one’s own body is often very difficult and stressful, even without the pressure of differences in sexuality
Gay Body Image Problems Arising From The Fear Of Not Being Loved Read More »
