POST-EVENT COVERAGE (QAM 2009)
Print news
18 August 2009
1) Hindustan Times, Mumbai: All talk, no show
17 August 2009
1) AFP: Carnival mood for Mumbai’s gay Pride march (also see video report below)
2) Times of India: Rallying to change mindsets, dispel phobia
3) The Indian Express: The barrier breaks
4) Hindustan Times: Gays stage march for respect, acceptance
5) Mid-Day: Baba Ramdev walks among Homosexuals and Annual Gay Parade was held this Sunday
6) DNA: Gay march demands ‘freedom’
7) Advocate.com: Mumbai Celebrates Gay Pride
Free Press Journal:
Photos
2) Minal
3) Manish
4) Facebook photo albums by Maya, Falak, Priya, Srini, Kunal
(Note: Not all albums are published in the public domain by Facebook users, so those albums might not be visible to you, even after you login to Facebook)
Note: Please contact the photographer directly if you’d like publish any of these pictures.
Videos
Youtube video by desperadon95007
Youtube1 and Youtube2 videos by s***son4daddy
(watch this space for additions to the list)
PRE-EVENT COVERAGE (QAM 2009)
1) Hindustan Times, Mumbai: Gays have been fighting for independence for over 150 years (16 August 2009)
2) DNA: The right to be out and ‘All we want is for society to get used to us’ (16 August 2009)
3) Mid-Day: The gay gig will go on, despite gag (14 August 2009)
4) The New York Times: “After Decriminalization, a Gay Pride March in Mumbai” (12 August 2009)
5) From The Asian Age, Mumbai: “India’s own dancing queens: Mumbai’s transgender folks stage a dance show and collect Rs 30,000 for the Queer Azaadi March which will be held on August 16″ (Read the PDF of the story: Asian Age_Mumbai_11Aug09)
6) From TimeOut Mumbai: Why We Want To March
7) Advocate.com: Mumbia plans for gay pride (13 August)
POST-EVENT COVERAGE (QAM 2008)
Sunday, 17 August 2008
LGBT activists protest against Section 377 (‘Send Section 377 to dustbin of history’ headline in print version; on the Front Page) – Times of India
Mumbai gays hit streets demanding rights – NDTV.com
PDF of clippings of other papers:
PRE-EVENT COVERAGE (QAM 2008)
Gays, lesbians to march in pride today – Hindustan Times
Guess who’ll miss gay parade today – Mid-Day
Sure you can protest, just plan months ahead - DNA
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Celina marches for gay pride! (See page 14 on http://www.mid-day.com/epaper/index.htm)
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Sakshi Juneja’s blog ‘To Each Its Own’: Queer Azadi, Mumbai Ishtyle
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Times of India (Westside/Andheri Plus): Gay yeah!
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
DNA: Mumbai’s gay community rallies for freedom
June 21, 2009 at 7:20 am
[...] Planning is yet to begin with full force for 2009 Queer Azadi but small steps have already been taken. The intention is always to make it bigger than the last year so perhaps we would see a lot of interesting activities from the LGBT community in Mumbai in August. Meanwhile here’s a link to the media coverage of last years queer azaadi. [...]
June 21, 2009 at 11:10 am
[...] Planning is yet to begin with full force for 2009 Queer Azadi but small steps have already been taken. The intention is always to make it bigger than the last year so perhaps we would see a lot of interesting activities from the LGBT community in Mumbai in August. Meanwhile here’s a link to the media coverage of last years queer azaadi. [...]
August 16, 2009 at 6:00 pm
All my Queer Azadi Gay Parade pictures at Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/sets/72157621929280619/
Firoze Shakir
photographerno1
Bandra Mumbai
Thank you Nitin Vivek and Ashok Row Kavi
August 17, 2009 at 8:12 am
[...] Media coverage [...]
August 17, 2009 at 10:55 am
Amazing experience!
August 18, 2009 at 9:46 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41548379@N05/show/
August 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I wrote the following article for Socialist Worker (US) on the march, based on media reports and your site.
http://socialistworker.org/2009/08/25/marching-for-lgbt-rights-in-india
We have lots of material on LGBT rights in the US, and folks were very inspired by the march.