Rome Film Festival Gets A Makeover

The 10th annual Rome Film Festival opens Friday under a new director who hopes to turn a smaller budget into a sharper mandate. He’s eliminated the jury, the competit...

Swara Bhaskar Comes Out In The Support of LGBT

Amazingly talented actress Swara Bhaskar who earned laurels with the film ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ starring Kangana Ranaut and made a considerable mar...

How Vice’s Feminist Channel ‘Broadly’ Plans To Get Women Right

“TO BE HONEST,” Tracie Egan Morrissey tells me. “I actually don’t really care what men think or how they feel.”

It’s about ten m...

Elton John And Michael Stipe Write About Plight Of Transgender Inmates In Prison

Last month, Elton John and musician, activist, and Elton John AIDS Foundation ally Michael Stipe, published an op-ed in the The Guardian about the horrific conditions faced...

Obama To Call For End To ‘Conversion’ Therapies For Gay and Transgender Youth.

A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writ...

Deepika Bats For Gender Equality In New Video

Actress Deepika Padukone has raised her voice for equality for females in all spheres of life. She along with 98 other women have featured in a video, directed by Homi Adja...

Unfreedom, A Film That Was Banned By The Censors, Is Now Using That As Its USP

We’ve done it again. Only two days after India failed its LGBT populace by voting against benefits for same-sex partners for UN staff, it was reported on Saturday tha...

Kerry Washington Stands Up For LGBT Rights

“Scandal” star Kerry Washington stood up for same-sex rights in a fiery speech Saturday night that brought a cheering crowd to its feet. Washington made the rem...

Laughter Is Power

The many comedy shows on television and Internet make us laugh because they make fun of others, usually those who we want to mock: Politicians, Bollywood stars, macho men, ...