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This love story began with a flashmob… It was 2021. We were planning our second queer flashmob in Lucknow, bright, bold, and full of...

It was my first job. The office had two gates, one at the front and one at the back. I was walking in through the back gate when I saw...

Born into a conservative Muslim family in Varanasi, my life and choices were always dictated by society and its norms. Growing up, I felt...

Did you know that one of the most celebrated poets in Islamic history openly wrote about same-sex desire over 1,200 years ago? His name...

The first time I met Avinash’s parents,I had already rehearsed a hundred different versions of how it might go. Would they be cold? Would...

“Hum Musalmanon ko ghar nahin dete.” A sentence so simple, so casual, and yet so brutal. I’ve heard it before. So have many others like...

I wore it proudly. My hijab. My choice. My story. As I stepped into the colorful crowd, rang birange fashionable kapdon ka jhund , I was...

Being both queer and Muslim feels like living in contradiction, two identities that are constantly seen as incompatible, even...

Born in a wealthy family, Rumi was a noble man and a respected Muslim scholar whose family had close connections with the king. He was...

Picture a super hot school day, the first one back after the summer holidays. I was busy doodling when out of the blue, someone's...

Huzaifa, a 35-year-old gay man residing in Noida, India shares his heartfelt experience, as the ticking clock reminds him that time is...