Magazines and Journals

Here is a list of magazines, journals and other periodicals relevant to the LGBT community in India, the broader South Asia region and diaspora. Some of these are no longer in circulation.

Please let us know via the Orinam Contact page –

  • If you know of other magazines that we have not listed here
  • If you can update us on the currently unknown status of some of these
  • If you have back issues or of out-of-print magazines from this list that you can contribute to the India LGBT Archives initiative
Year Name For Place Status
1986 Anamika South Asian lesbians and bi women, print ? ?
1986 Trikone South Asian lesbians and gay men (first named Trikon subsequently Trikone, and for LGBT), print and electronic San Francisco, USA in publication
1989 Khush Khayal South Asian, print Toronto, Canada no longer published
1989 Shakti Khabar South Asian LGBT, print London, UK ?
1990 Bombay Dost Indian gay men (annual), print Mumbai, India in publication
1990 Freedom Newsletter for Indian gay men, print Gulbarga, India no longer published
1991 Pravartak Indian LGBT people, print Kolkata, India no longer published
1993 Samiyoni South Asian lesbians and bi women magazine, print Toronto, Canada ?
1993 Aarambh South Asian LGBT magazine print Delhi, India ?
1997 Darpan Newsletter for Indian LGBT print Delhi, India ?
1998 Scripts Magazine featuring queer/ feminist /activist/ creative voices, from Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action(LABIA), Mumbai, print Mumbai, India in publication
1999 Sanghamitra Magazine for Indian LGBT (annual print, quarterly electronic) Bangalore, India in publication
2001 Lakshya Gujarati gay magazine Gujarat, India/td> unknown
2004 Swakanthey (In Our Own Voice) Bilingual (Bengali-English) Bi-annual magazine for LGBTIKHQ, academics and others interested in gender/sexuality issues published by Sappho Available in print and online at www.sapphokolkata.in Kolkata, India in publication
2005 In Plainspeak Magazine with content on sexuality (including LGBT) published quarterly by the South and SouthEast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality of TARSHI, print, electronic Delhi, India in publication
2006 Rainbow News Quarterly newsletter of EQUAL GROUND (content in Sinhala, Tamil and English) Columbo, Sri Lanka in publication
2008 Chay magazine Magazine on sex and sexuality in Pakistan, South Asia and abroad, electronic ? in publication
2009 Pink Pages India Electronic magazine for Indian LGBT, started in July 2009 in publication
2009 The Queer Chronicle Monthly electronic magazine for LGBT people in Pune, launched Sept 2009 Pune, India in publication
2009 Jiah Quarterly electronic magazine for Indian queer women, founded November 2009 Pune, India in publication
2010 Gaylaxy Magazine Monthly, electronic magazine, startedJanuary 2010 in publication
2013 Varta Online magazine, started August 1, 2013 Kolkata, India in publication