On Tuesday, Google celebrated the fifth anniversary of the celebration and acceptance of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual identities. The month of June is celebrated as LGBTQI+ community as Pride Month.

Love Matters, an NGO, focussing on love, sex and relationships organised the first edition of Conqueer 2019 which is a part of Love Matter’s Press4Change project. The event Conqueer 2019 was organised in partnership with the Keshav Suri Foundation and witnessed LGBTQ leaders from various parts of India coming together to brainstorm on the issues faced by the community in Post 377 India and draft problem statements.

Conqueer is a part of the Press4change project by Love Matters India, aiming at an increased and holistic representation of the LGBTQ community in media.

Love Matters India in partnership with the Keshav Suri Foundation organized a Media workshop last Sunday to initiate a dialogue with the grassroot journalists of the country and to promote rights based and factual representation and depiction of the LGBTQ community.

Actress Anne Hathaway will be honoured with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) National Equality Award here on September 15.

A few hours after the Supreme Court on Thursday announced its historical judgment on Section 377 by decriminalising homosexuality, members of the LGBTQ community gathered here along with their supporters to celebrate the landmark decision.

Holding that the punishment under Section 377 had created a chilling effect, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it was the responsibility of the three organs of the State to curb any "propensity or proclivity of popular sentiment or majoritarianism" to invade the rights of LGBTQ community.

Top LGBTQ activists in Mumbai on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict decriminalising gay sex amidst caution that "the real work will begin now".

California has issued a ban on state-funded and state-sponsored travel to four more states that it says have laws discriminating against the LGBTQ community, the media reported.