Tag: Transgender
A short film explores same sex questions— among youth and grand parents
Kolkata: How conducive is it for a young man who is in same sex relationship to break ‘the news’ to his maternal grandmother?
How does...
Kolkata hosts its first Queer Literary Festival
Kolkata: The season to celebrate literature has set in. And Calcutta alone will be hosting not one but three literature festivals in January itself....
When every zone of India witnessed gender violence; two minors and a tourist raped, transgender assaulted
Kolkata: The gory murder of a four-year-old after rape in Haryana clubbed with the gang-rape of a Japanese tourist in Kullu screams about India...
Transgenders are first humans, says Shree Ghatak
Kolkata: Shree Ghatak made it to the national headlines last year, for becoming the first transgender in Eastern India to get legally married. Understanding...
Joyita Mondal: Transgender, who left home, begged, slept at platform but now holds the most respectable job
Kolkata: She has had to sleep on a bus stop or railway station. Hotels have refused accommodation. She has been bullied for her identity....
First transgender woman to get legally married in Kolkata
Kolkata: Thirty-year-old Shree Ghatak Muhuri, a Kolkata-based theatre personality, set an example for the transgender community in the city on Saturday night by getting...