Pride Library: Top 15 Books in Celebration of Pride Month

It all started cos I wanted to mess with the Invincibles (the superbrats). #SorryNotSorry. But one thing led to another, and before I knew it, I was hitting out at everyone, even the Incredibles (the geeks) and the Invisibles (the…

'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like…

Mohanaswamy has just lost his long-time partner, Karthik, to a woman. Even as he scrutinizes himself, the choices he's made, the friends and lovers he's gained and lost, Mohanaswamy dreams of living a simple, dignified life. A life that will…

In 2015, a historic panel discussion took place at the global Festival of Theology held in Sweden. Its objective was to examine what the sacred texts of the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - had to say about…

The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn't: he just figured that he wanted to be different. And that he was in love -- for want of a better word -- with Deepak,…

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', the first modern Hindi poet of India, is all of sixteen and not conversant with the Khari Boli Hindi of the litterateurs yet when his father gets him married and sends him off to his in-laws' in…

A sensual and searing exploration of desire, infidelity and faith,  The Exiles draws inspiration from archetypal Hindu mythology  and romantic Sufi poetry, evoking unforgettable characters to  explore how with a new world come new freedoms, and with  them, the choices…

They were inseparable - until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves the city. Kari, saved by a sewer, crawls back into the fray of living. With Angel, Lazarus, and the girls of Crystal Palace forming the…

My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, fearless and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. Growing up in a strict Iraqi Muslim…

'An extraordinary book that triumphs on many levels, personal and social ... Above all, it is a sensual and passionate story about the search for love, the endless flowing river in the cave of man", that animates all our lives.'…

Contrary to popular belief and (even more) popular magazines, dating isn't easy.It is tough for everybody because, when it comes to romance, sex and relationships, there is no difference between being gay and straight.In Get Out, Aniruddha Mahale mines his…

From award-winning actor Maulik Pancholy comes a hilarious and heartfelt middle grade debut about a gay Indian American boy coming into his own.Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school…

The Pink Line tells the story of how 'LGBT Rights' became one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the twenty-first century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia…