Posts in category: Know Your Icons

The first Sikh to take up Bharatnatyam as a dance form, Navtej is a Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee and is a known name when it comes to the dance form ...

This queer power couple played a vital role in decriminalizing #section377, a homophobic and draconian British-era law that criminalized and stigmati ...

Singh is India’s first Gay Prince, and the first openly gay royal in the world. He was even married to Princess Chandni Kumari. Even though his famil ...

She’s an Indian professional sprinter. Her sports accolades are many but she was recently applauded for coming out publicly. She declared that she’s ...

Parvez Sharma is a New York-based Indian filmmaker, author, and journalist. He is a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the film/video cat ...

Hotelier Keshav Suri is the Executive Director of the Lalit Suri Hospitality Group that owns the LaLit chain of hotels. On the scrapping of section 3 ...

Gauri became a known face after getting featured in an advertisement for Vicks but has been an activist for transgender rights since much longer. In ...

"A self-described " Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother", Audre Lorde is famous for having a way with words. Her poetry has revolutionized the ...

Anderson Cooper became a household name in America when his show Anderson Cooper 360° came into being in 2019, but he was a force to be reckoned with ...

Roxane Gay is a Queer Black woman, a "literary darling" and a self-proclaimed Bad Feminist. Author of a book by the same name, "her Bad Feminist essa ...

One of the openly queer personalities in India, the 61-year-old Padma Shri recipient, famously known for his book 'A Suitable Boy, also penned down a ...

Abhina Aher works with trans folks closely and provides for the welfare of trans folx. She is on the board for Tweet foundation, and is a strong and ...

Grace Banu was the first trans person to go to an engineering college in Tamil Nadu. She is a writer, a Dalit rights activist, and a vocal trans righ ...

Sylvia Rivera, along with #MarshaPJohnson, was one of the first rioters the #theStonewallInn. She and Marsha P. Johnson started S.T.A.R, a halfway ho ...

The first brick thrown at the Stonewall Inn riots belonged to Marsha P. Johnson. She is a legend, a Black transwoman, a drag queen, and a queer liber ...