#desi pride

[fortuna-majoris]

Focus on the women's team you cowards

[tampire]

Happy National Coming Out Day from your usual queerdo, bi the way. I love spending relaxed moments at my favorite place and yeah this sign of no smoking and vaping is a sober vibe for me for sure. Love you all as always. :D

[grishaxverse]

so who was going to tell me that jimmy shergil is the great nephew of THE AMRITA SHERGIL??????

[buttercupspotify]

happy #pridemonth

↪dedicated to all my fellow queers, you all deserve love.

↪ celebrate this pride month to it's fullest cause प्यार तोह प्यार ही है.

People I think who'd love this mb : @white-poppie @ji-jii-visha @bishh-kanya @bipdf @nerdreader @azure-cherie @navaratna @ramayantika @itsfookingloosah @folklore-girl @oyeevarnika @swayamev @suvarnarekha

[intervex]

Diwali-inspired intersex flags

It was Diwali, and I was once again inspired by a holiday to make some relevant intersex flags 🪔

First, some Diwali-specific imagery:

The rangoli pattern on the left is by Desti Silvana Ekasari of the Noun Project and comes with a CC BY 3.0 license. The diya lamp icon on the right comes from the Fluent Emoji pack.

I also made intersex flags for intersex members of the religions associated with the holiday: Jains, Hindus, Vajrayana Buddhists, and Sikhs (FYI: "Sikh" is pronounced like "sick" not "seek" 💜).

Icon sources: Jain Ahimsa, Hindu Aum, Vishvavajira, Sikh Khanda

Personal note: I'm not myself a member of any religion, but I do celebrate Diwali because my partner's family is Hindu. 💜

Tagging for archival: @radiomogai @intersexflags @varsex-pride @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

[papenathys]

I don't say this enough but I really write for the young queer and trans desi kids here who reblog my poetry and stories and moodboards and share their own stories. You are very brave and very loved and extremely resilient for existing in a country like ours, in a time like ours, when literally every day I open the newspaper or go online and see some horrific tragedy about some queer Indian kid who deserved the world and instead ended up without the help they deserved. Like even a few years ago, when I was in Catholic school in Kolkata, we– may be five or six queer girls–stuck together and had it BAD, and now seeing baby trans and queer desis in my inbox all being happy and camping out and calling me an older sibling is. Well. It's a lot. It makes me emotional. I mean, I was in first year of college when section 377 got repealed. So.

I know social media doesn't make it any easier to exist in the world as a non white, non western gay in the global South, with the constant guilt tripping rhetoric in online queer spaces that goes like "why don't you visit your local queer bar and maybe you'll know what REAL lesbians/gays looks like" but like I promise you!!! you'll be happy someday and you don't have to chase after a distant metropolitan/Euramerican dream and feel helpless without it!!! I promise you you'll find love and community, and I promise you you'll get the life you deserve!!! your worth isn't measured in how queer a lifestyle you lead by western visibility standards!!! Please keep being hopeful, and proudly yourselves, you're all brilliant young people.

[sylastry]

Movies that traumatized me as a child were 'Raju Chacha' and 'Makdi'

I still can't watch them.

[hiyaaaaaaaa]

I know I am exceptional!! (Guysss I feel alone but that loneliness is sooo satisfying)