As told to Eleena Sanyal (Names changed to protect identities) My husband Lalit and I brought up our sons in Mumbai. I recently retired from a public sector job and Lalit retired 3 years ago as a scientist although he says, could a scientist ever retire? My older son Milind is now 31 and Kshitij […]
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“Hey Ajay, are you gay?” I asked, as we smoked spirals into the branches of the tree overhead. At the back of my mind I thought to myself, “What’s the worst that will happen? He will be offended.” We were both lecturers at the same college, teaching the same classes. He taught management studies, I,
Incredible story of a teacher who was funny, dirty and gay Read More »
I go by the name of Nomad. Some even call me Hobo. Primarily because for the last seven years of my life I have been floating. Floating in the sense that I had no permanent home address and I was job-hopping every three months while studying full-time. I am Muslim and gay. I’m from a
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I think we’re all different flavours in the stirring pot of life, and we do things differently. That’s what makes us unique and builds us up as humanity. It’s funny to see how different we are as men and women, and how gay and straight couples do things differently. The Surprising Advantages Of Being a
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(As told to Vineeta Asthana) She joined our office that summer. A 27-year-old hyperactive and very talkative girl. In the very first week, she told me almost everything about her past and present. Also, she shared her plans for the future. She’d often give me a friendly hug and I didn’t mind it, since she
I’m a straight woman who was stalked by another woman, and it was just as scary Read More »
(As told to Pooja Sharma Rao)Names changed to protect identities Today I sat again by the huge French window in the attic of our ancestral palatial house located on the Jakhu hill in Shimla. The city lights spread out below me like a dark blanket studded with stars. Today I was again thinking about my
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(As told to Saurabh Das) While growing up and studying in an all-boys school, I observed that I was attracted to men sexually. During my initial years, I couldn’t understand it much, treating it just as another hormonal adventure. However, when I passed school and reached college, the attraction increased. But I was not gay,
I was in love with a man and a woman at the same time Read More »
What do gays/lesbians do in the bedroom? It is a conundrum to straight people. Sexually, the choices we make in bed are fluid and naturally attributed to the love shared emotionally with our partners. The dynamics of a happy relationship ultimately determine how you love yourself and your partner sexually. Sometimes sex can just be
So who is the girl and who’s the boy in a same-sex relationship? Read More »
The theme of homosexuality in mythology is quite common. Many mythologies depict this as a sexual act in terms of same-sex relationships or deal with the subject as it is. No mythologies address the subject as taboo or unnatural. Mythologies of the world treat the subject as just another manifestation of erotic expression and don’t
It is unbelievable how Achilles’ gay relationship changed the course of the Trojan war Read More »
How did they build a wonderful marriage even though he was gay and happily married to a woman
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