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No Pride, Only Prejudice: The Science Behind The 'Gay Voice'

For years, I stifled my "girly" voice, fearing judgment. Hypermasculine facades became my shield, morphing accents to fit expectations and shrinking from anything deemed "feminine." This fear stemmed from toxic masculinity's suffocating grip, linking a specific...

Translation missing: en.by Hello From The Thought Co. ·Aug 16, 2023 ·4 min read
Leaving The Closet?
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Leaving The Closet?

  Things to think about before making up your mind. Coming out and living openly aren’t something you do once, or even for a...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Voices of Pride: Aniruddha's Journey
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Voices of Pride: Aniruddha's Journey

I met my mother thirty-three years ago, in the closed ward of a maternity clinic hidden away in one of Bombay’s many suburbs (the...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Voices of Pride: Soham’s Journey
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Voices of Pride: Soham’s Journey

Being queer is beautiful. Being queer is liberating. But it wasn’t always this way for me. When I first started to realise that I...

Aug 23, 2021 ·3 min
Voice of Pride: Akruti's Journey
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Voice of Pride: Akruti's Journey

Since childhood, I observed that the only  accepted and “normalised” form of romantic relationship was between two “heterosexuals”. As a teenager, I always felt...

Jun 5, 2021 ·3 min
Voices of Pride: Aarohi's Journey
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Voices of Pride: Aarohi's Journey

I’ve always liked women in a way that I liked men but I’ve never been able to say it out aloud because of the...

May 17, 2021 ·2 min
When A Loved One Come out To You
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When A Loved One Come out To You

How to find the right way to respond? We have all used this GIF at least once in our chats, whether it is to...

Jan 15, 2021 ·6 min
Food & LGBTQ+
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Food & LGBTQ+

The relationships between gender identity, sexuality, body image and perceptions about shape and size are complex. There are certain stressors that only LGBTQ+ individuals...

Aug 31, 2020 ·3 min
How Do You Know You're Straight?
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How Do You Know You're Straight?

“When did you know that you’re straight?”“It took me a lecture on gender and sexuality in the second year of my bachelor’s course to...

Aug 21, 2020 ·4 min