INDIA — Kashish Forward, the LGBT campus film festival, organized by Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is creating waves across India with eight screenings in six cities in October 2017. India’s first travelling LGBTQ campus film festival will screen path-breaking films in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Kharagpur, Kolkata and Sonepat. With screenings lined up…
India’s first and only LGBTI choir, Rainbow Voices Mumbai, were formed in 2014 and offer support for LGBTI people in India and raise awareness around LGBTI rights. Homosexual activity remains illegal in India under Section 377 of the country’s penal code. The choir are championing the work of local advocates in their efforts to overturn…
South Asia’s biggest and India’s only mainstream LGBTQ film festival – KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival – returns for its eighth edition in May 2017. Registrations have opened on BookMyShow.com for the festival that will be held from May 24-28, 2017. 147 films from 45 countries that reflect the diversity of the lives of lesbian, gay,…
MUMBAI, India — For the fifth year in a row, Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will be raising funds to hold the eighth edition of South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival through crowdfunding. The global campaign to raise funds was launched on India’s leading crowdfunding portal – Wishberry. India’s only mainstream LGBTQ film festival…
NEW DELHI, India—The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed a new law passed by the Indian Parliament providing strong legal protection against HIV-related discrimination. The law provides a broad legislative framework for the response to HIV in India and is the first national HIV law in South Asia. The legislation prohibits discrimination…
https://youtu.be/xGlftOeZDko DELHI, India – The gay dating app Scruff has released vibrant new video footage of Dance for Pride: Breaking the Stereotypes which took place last Saturday and won the hearts of thousands in Delhi. LGBTQ volunteers came together at Hauz Khas Village to dance to the indigenous beats of Dhol – and the atmosphere was…
NEW DELHI, India — For the first time, the Delhi LGBTQ community is coming together to dance on the indigenous beats of Indian Dhol – a unique way to show solidarity to the world. The event will be held at Hauz Khas Village in New Delhi, India and will start at 4 p.m. local time…
LONDON — This March 2017, BFI Flare, London, one of the world’s oldest LGBTQ film festivals will have a special focus on South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival KASHISH. Festival Director Sridhar Rangayan will be at BFI Flare to talk about contemporary Indian LGBTQ films. “It is an absolute honor that BFI Flare, one of…
MUMBAI, India — For the first time ever 10 parents of LGBTQ persons came together in Mumbai, India for a closed door parents’ support group workshop that aimed to share experiences and also chart out a future course of action. Organized by Solaris Pictures, as part of its ongoing engagement with LGBT community and parents,…
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival – South Asia’s biggest and India’s only mainstream LGBT film festival – has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise a part of the funds required for organizing the sixth edition of the festival. The film festival will be held May 27 – 31, 2015 at Liberty Cinema and Alliance…
