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LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
📺 [Hangout] qUNI’s Yappathon Session
🗓: 28 Oct, 7pm to 9pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/qunis-yappathon-session-5
🪷 [Workshop] Rainbodhi: Carry yourself kindly through everyday
🗓: 1 Nov, 11am to 1pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/carry-yourself-kindly-through-everyday-by-rainbodhi-sg
💬 [Discussion] Safe and Sound Bites
🗓: 6 Nov, 8pm to 9.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/safe-and-sound-bites
📋 [Discussion] Let's Talk About LGBTQ+ Legacy & Legal Planning
🗓: 19 Nov, 6.30pm onwards
📍: HOST
🔻
https://oclegacylegal2026.peatix.com
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| 2 | Good Monday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇭🇰 ‘Booking overlap’ forces Hong Kong Pride Parade to cancel indoor market
Rainbow Market was due to be held on November 14, with organisers saying venue had no alternative space available that month.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3371031/booking-overlap-forces-hong-kong-pride-parade-cancel-indoor-market
🇮🇳 Uniform, but for which gender(s)? India's UCC push faces a crucial question on same-sex couples and transgender rights
The result is a code uniform only for cisgender heterosexual persons, while queer citizens are excluded from civil status.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/uniform-but-for-which-genders-indias-ucc-push-faces-a-crucial-question-on-same-sex-couples-and-transgender-rights/articleshow/135000680.cms
🇯🇵 LGBTQ exclusion costs Japanese economy billions a year
"For Japan, LGBTQ inclusion is not simply a question of fairness. It is part of the country’s economic resilience."
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https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/10/12/report-lgbtq-exclusion-costs-japanese-economy-billions-a-year
🇰🇷 Incheon Queer Culture Festival wins first approval to use City Hall plaza
"We sincerely welcome this decision, achieved by breaking down the walls of an administration that has been discriminatory and contrary to human rights."
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https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10904996
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| 3 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🚐 [Testing] FREE HIV Testing
🗓: 17 Oct, 10pm onwards
📍: 31A Keong Saik Rd
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeVg_CWGSo0
💬 [Discussion] Bridging Conversations – In Transit
🗓: 24 Oct, 9am to 1pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/bridging-conversations-in-transit
🪷 [Gathering] A KINDER MIND: Discover
🗓: 25 Oct, 10.30am to 12pm
📍: Wat Ananda Metyarama
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/rainbodhisg/p/DeQ2TfvkWny
🎃 [Hangout] Out in SG: Halloween Haunting Walk
🗓: 30 Oct, 7pm onwards
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/1916247832685701
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| 4 | Good Thursday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇹🇭 Uncover queer stories, zines and poetry at Thailand’s first queer book fair on October 24
Expect long tables laden with romance novels, erotic short stories, poetry and fantasy, plus non-fiction on human rights and a generous spread of zines, prints and handmade publications.
🔻
https://www.timeout.com/bangkok/news/thai-queer-book-fair-at-tk-park-101226
🇭🇰 ‘Cyclone’, the Hong Kong indie that kept Tony Leung awake, confronts trauma and desire as lived by the transgender community
"If a divine creator exists, why does it remain so profoundly silent when someone suffers such a tragedy?"
🔻
https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/entertainment/hong-kong-film-cyclone
🇯🇵 Love for village motivated transgender man to run for mayor
"If you first decide the way you wish to be living, before you know it, the day will certainly come when you are living exactly that way."
🔻
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16859851
🇮🇳 When the spotlight fades: The unseen mental health struggles of drag artists
Visibility often comes with stigma, discrimination, and marginalisation, exposing a profound lack of mental health support tailored to their experiences.
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https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/when-the-spotlight-fades-the-unseen-mental-health-struggles-of-drag-artists-4175707
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| 5 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
👟 [Sports] Out in SG: Marina Barrage Run
🗓: 15 Oct, 6.45pm onwards
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/1094526263315478
🚐 [Testing] Project X: FREE & ANYONYMOUS HIV Testing
🗓: 21 Oct, 7pm to 10.30pm
📍: Geylang
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeG3HT4T2cC
🎙️ [Open Mic] Open Mic: How We Care For Each Other
🗓: 22 Oct, 8pm onwards
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/oct-open-mic
🥊 [Sports] All Woman Boxing Class
🗓: 25 Oct, 3pm to 4.30pm
📍: Lion Heart MMA
🔻
https://forms.gle/19qw6Fma2wFcR5P36
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| 6 | Good Monday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇹🇼 A Raid on a Gay Bar Risks Taiwan’s LGBTQ-Friendly Reputation
"Ordering people who were already dressed to undress is not preserving evidence. It’s humiliation."
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https://thediplomat.com/2026/10/a-raid-on-a-gay-bar-risks-taiwans-lgbtq-friendly-reputation
🏳️🌈 Introducing LGBT stories linked to more inclusive attitudes in primary schools
"This is necessary not only to raise awareness of different realities, but also to prevent bullying and violence while fostering safe school environments."
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https://phys.org/news/2026-10-lgbt-stories-linked-inclusive-attitudes.html
🇯🇵 Japan’s basic plan skirts real reform on LGBTQ+ rights
Japan’s educational curriculum has also not been updated in line with the basic plan’s provisions.
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https://eastasiaforum.org/2026/10/09/japans-basic-plan-skirts-real-reform-on-lgbtq-rights
🇰🇷 69-year-old transgender woman's life story meets director who wanted to listen
“Nobody pushes you into it. You're born with it. So think of it as being chosen.”
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https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10897410
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| 7 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🎞️ [Screening] Aces Going Places x Out in SG Scream Queens: Other Mummy
🗓: 17 Oct, 7pm onwards
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/acesgoingplacessg/p/DeMBKZdslSh
🎤 [Hangout] Karaoke Night & Potluck
🗓: 23 Oct, 7pm to 10pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/karaoke-night-october-2026
🌳 [Gathering] Rainbodhi: A KINDER MIND
🗓: 24 Oct, 10am to 11.30am
📍: Singapore Botanic Gardens
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeIzyJlEzLV
👻 [Party] Aces Going Places: Ace Week Halloween Party
🗓: 31 Oct, 6.30pm to 10.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeGzIK4BXp_
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| 8 | Good Thursday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇵🇭 That queer iconic line
Our society will gladly consume queer talent, media, and culture, but locks them out of its legal protections.
🔻
https://opinion.inquirer.net/194931/that-queer-iconic-line
🇹🇭 Chiang defends city’s inclusivity after gay bar raid
"Taipei’s diversity and inclusivity should not only be visible on Pride parade day."
🔻
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/10/06/2003865463
🇮🇳 In every trans woman’s life, there is a Dorothy
True representation must extend beyond who plays the lead; it must be about who gets access to opportunities.
🔻
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/dorothy-transgender-representation-tamil-cinema-10911543/lite
🇵🇭 Zsazsa Zaturnnah remains Filipino queer icon 20 years later
“She has proven herself as an everlasting symbol to the LGBTQ+ members and their mass fights for representation, equal rights, and survival in the casually cruel Filipino society.”
🔻
https://www.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/people-culture-events/2026/10/6/zsazsa-zaturnnah-remains-filipino-queer-icon-20-years-later-1422
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| 9 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🏊🏽♀️ [Sports] Out in SG: Lap Swimming
🗓: 14 Oct, 6.30pm to 8pm
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/1149815491036409
💬 [Discussion] SEMEJA – At The Table
🗓: 18 Oct, 11.30am to 2.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/semeja
🥁 [Comedy] SCB Comedy presents ANNIE YANG
🗓: 23 Oct, 8pm to 10pm
📍: HOST Bar
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd7lr_nzQDv
🥂 [Party] Witches Loving Witches
🗓: 31 Oct, 10pm onwards
📍: MDLR
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdtHPWyoL20
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| 10 | Good Monday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇹🇼 Gay bar raid tests Taipei’s queer-friendly image ahead of Pride parade
“I’m not cool with this. This city used to claim that it was queer-friendly.”
🔻
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rare-police-raid-of-taipei-gay-bar-sparks-angry-protest
🇮🇳 In ‘Aman’, a Trans Man’s Pregnancy Complicates the Meaning of Masculinity
"By placing a trans man at its centre, the film exposes how fragile our definitions of gender truly are."
🔻
https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/in-aman-a-trans-mans-pregnancy-complicates-the-meaning-of-masculinity
🇰🇷 For Dew Kim, K-pop, faith and queer bodies meet onstage
“It is a point outside of everyday life, outside of normality. Spiritual things, queer things and artistic things all have that in common.”
🔻
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/amp/lifestyle/arts-theater/20261002/k-art-focus-for-dew-kim-k-pop-faith-and-queer-bodies-meet-onstage
🇯🇵 What Rui Takahashi’s Coming Out Means for Japanese Men’s Sports
In a country where openly gay male athletes remain rare, that visibility is itself a change.
🔻
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/rui-takahashis-coming-out-japanese-mens-sports
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| 11 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🎤 [Hangout] QueerNUS: Jamming Session
🗓: 7 Oct, 7pm to 9pm
📍: NUS
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd5FmdiTP2K
🎩 [Drag] Manimal Crossing
🗓: 9 Oct, 8pm to 10pm
📍: Rabbit's Hole
🔻
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manimal-crossing-tickets-1999638152543
🎨 [Workshop] Chaos, Colours And Compassion: The Art Of Self-Kindness
🗓: 10 Oct, 4pm to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/chaos-colours
💬 [Discussion] The Weight Of The Unspoken: Caregiver Grief In The LGBTQ+ Community
🗓: 15 Oct, 7.30pm to 9pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/the-weight-of-the-unspoken
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| 12 | Good Thursday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇮🇳 India Law Change Affects Transgender Healthcare
"When I want to move on, when I want to earn a respectful life, I don’t get a TG (transgender) card."
🔻
https://www.tabla.com.sg/news/india/india-law-change-affects-transgender-healthcare
🇮🇩 Indonesia’s top Muslim body wants to replace ‘LGBT’ with term that includes sexual abuse
"Many LGBT+ people, especially trans women, that mostly work in entertainment or other informal jobs, beginning to lose job opportunities because they are considered to pose a ‘risk’ to the event organizers."
🔻
https://76crimes.com/2026/09/28/indonesias-muslim-replace-lgbt
🇯🇵 Japanese volleyball player Rui Takahashi comes out as gay
"I’ve been able to face myself this far because of the time I spent with Ryo, the family, teammates, team staff, and everyone involved who have supported me."
🔻
https://qnews.com.au/japanese-volleyball-player-rui-takahashi-comes-out-as-gay
🇭🇰 Cyclone review: Philip Yung’s transgender drama is bold, lyrical and utterly divisive
The film takes its name from the protagonist’s chosen alias – a literary allusion that may enlighten and confuse audiences in equal measure.
🔻
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3369188/cyclone-review-philip-yungs-transgender-drama-bold-lyrical-and-utterly-divisive
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| 13 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🎤 [Concert] T4T4T4T
🗓: 6 Oct, 7.15pm onwards
📍: Room 526
🔻
https://www.roomfivetwosix.com/events/t4t4t4t
🎃 [Hangout] Kampung Kiki
🗓: 10 Oct, 2pm to 4pm
📍: Oogachaga
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdsYoKnT9hL
🎱 [Sports] ACAVE: Billiard
🗓: 11 Oct, 2pm to 4pm
📍: The Stance Billiards
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddpt8VYh0Er
💬 [Discussion] Living Together, Living Well
🗓: 17 Oct, 3.30pm to 5.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdvQ-U5kpyh
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| 14 | Good Monday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇮🇳 For India’s Hijra women, rising heat comes with dangerous trade-offs
For a traditional trans and intersex community pushed to the margins of employment, housing and healthcare, heat can have cascading effects.
🔻
https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/for-indias-hijra-women-rising-heat-comes-with-dangerous-trade-offs
🇯🇵 Transgender man seeks recognition as father of biological child
"We want to have a society where sexual minorities can have families as a matter of course."
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/25/japan/crime-legal/transgender-lawsuit-father
🇲🇾 In Malaysia, a mother’s love offers her trans daughter refuge
Rozi, 58, struggled to accept it at first, but what troubled her more was the thought that rejecting Hana might push her out of the family altogether.
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3368824/malaysia-mothers-love-offers-her-trans-daughter-refuge
🇯🇵 In “We Exist,” Japanese LGBTQ stories prove that queerness is not an import
Before the acronym LGBT ever came about, there have people in Japan who exist in the way we now consider non-normative, and the vocabulary to describe them has existed as well.
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https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/in-we-exist-japanese-lgbtq-stories
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| 15 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🏊🏾 [Sports] Out in SG: Lap Swimming
🗓: 30 Sept, 6.30pm to 8pm
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/1085460390587130
🍵 [Hangout] SAPS Sangam Socials
🗓: 3 Oct, 7pm onwards
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
http://proudspaces.sg/events/saps-sangam-socials
🏸 [Sports] ACAVE: Badminton
🗓: 3 Oct, 8pm to 10pm
📍: Aljunied
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddk5bqMPilK
🍕 [Hangout] Pizza Pool Party
🗓: 11 Oct, 12pm to 3pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/pizza-pool-party-a-pizza-making-and-poetry-social
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| 16 | Good Thursday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🏳️🌈 How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia
Many BLs allow viewers to witness intimacy and vulnerability stripped of expectations of how people are “supposed” to behave.
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https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-boys-love-conquered-asia
🇸🇬 T4T4T4T to celebrate trans & non-binary artists with inaugural Singapore concert this October
"We're doing this to bring our community together for a night of great music."
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https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/t4t4t4t-to-celebrate-trans-non-binary-artists-with-inaugural-singapore-concert-this-october
🇮🇳 In a first, Karnataka university introduces transgender reservation in LLB course
Karnataka State Law University decided to provide transgender reservation following a Karnataka High Court direction.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/legal-news/karnataka-university-introduces-transgender-reservation-in-llb-10889476/lite
🇮🇳 Beyond the front lines: What sustains civic leadership among young women and queer people in India
For queer participants especially, a duality marks their civic lives: the same gendered backlash, alongside what often feels like an intentional exclusion, even from progressive spaces.
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/young-women-queer-civic-leadership-india
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| 17 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
💻 [Hangout] Powerpoint Party
🗓: 3 & 4 Oct, various timings
📍: Wormhole
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DdNycZnmlDl
🏸 [Sports] Out in SG: Badminton
🗓: 4 Oct, 3pm to 5pm
📍: TBA
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https://www.facebook.com/events/1996260914413632
💬 [Launch] Queer Affirming Therapy Code Of Practice
🗓: 10 Oct, 10am to 1pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://proudspaces.sg/events/launch-of-cop
🌈 [Celebration] Taiwan Pride 2026
🗓: 31 Oct
📍: Taipei
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https://www.taiwanpride.lgbt
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| 18 | Good Monday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🇰🇷 SPAF brings global and experimental works to Seoul this fall
"It's a space where different lives, senses and perspectives meet and intersect to create meaning."
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https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10874594
🇮🇩 Appeal to Indonesia to stop listing ‘LGBTQ culture’ as a national threat
"The human rights situation for LGBTIQ people in Indonesia is deteriorating rapidly."
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https://76crimes.com/2026/09/18/appeal-indonesia-to-stop-listing-lgbtq
🇮🇳 Indian transgender patients left in limbo following legal amendments
Months after she began treatment earlier this year, India’s parliament amended the country’s transgender law, and the clinic where she was receiving care stopped her medicines.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3367806/indian-transgender-patients-left-limbo-following-legal-amendments
🇹🇼 Boys’ Love and Soft Power: How Danmei Crackdowns in China Creates an Opportunity for Taiwan
With Taiwan’s clear openness to the LGBTQ+ community, the country has been able to create a popular product that China is no longer able to provide.
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https://globaltaiwan.org/2026/09/boys-love-and-soft-power
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| 19 | LGBTQ+ EVENTS:
🚐 [Testing] Free Anonymous HIV Testing
🗓: 19 Sept, 9pm to 11pm
📍: 29 Neil Road
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DdQhaOUlKgu
📖 [Discussion] The Other Book Club: Roadkill for Beginners
🗓: 24 Sept, 7.30pm to 9.30pm
📍: Sing Lit Station
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https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/the-other-book-club-book-discussion-session-sep-2026-tickets-1999522923891
🥊 [Sports] GRIT Boxing
🗓: 27 Sept, 3pm to 4.30pm
📍: Lion Heart MMA
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https://forms.gle/fBNRDuhyGwCet2F68
🎤 [Hangout] Intergenerational Karaoke Confessions
🗓: 9 Oct, 6.30pm to 10pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://proudspaces.sg/events/intergenerational-karaoke-confessions
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| 20 | Good Thursday! Here is what's #Qurrent today:
LGBTQ+ NEWS
🏳️🌈 Art, surveillance and the politics of memory in Southeast Asia
"It is sad to know that our lives are so intertwined with being policed and surveilled because we are the embodiment of resistance."
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/15/world/southeast-asia-moral-policing
🇮🇩 Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body proposes criminalizing LGBTQ people, advocacy
"They are definitely confused by mixing identities, in this case sexual orientation, with sexual behavior and actions that are understood as violations or offenses, that are sodomy and sexual indecencies."
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https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/09/15/indonesias-top-muslim-clerical-body-proposes-criminalizing-lgbtq-people-advocacy
🇮🇳 ‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life
"I think part of my journey has been to put Indian gay men into cultural history."
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/sep/16/queers-in-leather-sunil-gupta-momentous-photographs-gay-life
🇮🇳 Inside India’s first transwomen rescue squad, trained in Kolhapur
"We have been helping people during disasters or rescue needs but faced discrimination. However, now we are getting recognition and, most importantly, an identity."
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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/kolhapur-district-forms-indias-first-transgender-disaster-management-rescue-team-maharashtra-10876379
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