Host Sandip Roy talks to a lesbian couple living in Delhi to understand whether lesbian lives have changed since Pride became more celebrated in India.
So in this special episode, host Sandip Roy talks to a lesbian couple, Rituparna Borah and Amrita Tripathi, living in Delhi to understand whether lesbian lives have changed since Pride became more celebrated and ‘cool’ in India.
Rituparna: [‘Lesbian’] has never been too cool. To be honest, since I’ve been working with the LGBTQI movement, for 18 years now, and I realize that the word ‘lesbian’ is so sexual - that’s what many people tell. They prefer to call themselves ‘gay’. And the word ‘lesbian’ is also linked with fetishization and so many things that people feel uncomforable using the word ‘lesbian’. Even in the women’s movement, since I’m part of the women’s movement, they would say, “LGBT, LGBT, LGBT.” And I say, “Say lesbian woman, bisexual woman. And say that.” They would say, “No, no, no, it’s fine. Queer woman, now this queer woman.” So we reclaim the word ‘lesbian.’
