What my mental illness taught me about love
“You’re effing ugly, just look at you! I am embarrassed to be in public with you.” I remember that first attack on me. His words still resonate in my head as if he was saying it again. All my life I’ve lived a rollercoaster of emotions; lack of sleep from an early age, anxiety levels through the […]
My Indian family prefers the closet
This has to be the most frank piece that I will ever write about being gay in the Indian culture; drawing truth from my own reality of living with homophobia in my family. At the age of 35, I will no longer use adjectives such as painful, heartless and other dramatic descriptions to enunciate the […]
9 myths LGBTQ people are fed up hearing
The LGBTQ community has been on the receiving end of a lot of unwarranted and baseless myths that make no sense whatsoever. Be it the misconception that they choose their sexual orientation or the inaccurate argument that their orientation is ‘unnatural’, the LGBT community has had to answer questions that should never be asked in […]
Orlando: Flood the world with unicorns
Things were at first sketchy when the news poured in about a hostage situation in a gay venue – Pulse nightclub in Florida, USA. Should I have been worried? I was, yes I was. I remembered the first time I was beaten up. By two men with a superiority complex about their straight concept of […]