https://thedailyeye.info/in-the-news/trending-pride-combats-prejudice/4e08053d43c5b83a Khalid Mohamed In 2025, LGBTQIA+ representation in Indian cinema took diverse forms—from independent shorts by Shawn Gupta exploring same-gender intimacy to Anmol Sidhu’s powerful Punjabi feature Jaggi, and the docu-series In Transit created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti. These narratives challenge societal norms and stereotypes, exploring the lives of queer and trans individuals through both fiction and nonfiction. As censorship battles persist and tokenism continues in commercial content, these films mark significant efforts toward visibility, inclusion, and dignity within the LGBTQ+ discourse.
From America, there have been The Children’s Hour (1961), The Fox (1967), and Staircase (1969), leading up to Brokeback Mountain (2005), which was acknowledged as a sensitive and believable rendition of the subject, earning as many as eight Oscar nominations.
In India, we’ve seen everything from the NFDC-funded Badnaam Basti (1971) to the exploitative Girl Friend (2004), and earlier, Deepa Mehta’s Fire (1996), which boldly debunked myriad taboos surrounding queer themes.
The American actor Richard Gere read a poem by the celebrated Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish, whose work articulated the struggles, exile and identity of the Palestinian people. Gere joins a wave of artists who have shown solidarity with Palestinians. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1shPCTieW/
Mamdani secured the most total votes in a primary in New York City’s history marks the culmination of a grassroots political project that began at least back in 2015, when the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) announced a “New Strategy for a New Era,” energized by the early days of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run... - https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mamdani-democratic-socialists-campaign-new-york-city-dsa
https://www.dsausa.org/blog/dsa_convention_new_strategy_for_a_new_era_dl/ The priorities included 1) building DSA and increasing public awareness of democratic socialism through grassroots work for Bernie Sanders (but independent of his official campaign); 2) implementing the approaches to organizing laid out in the strategy document; 3) increasing DSA involvement in local anti-racist coalitions; 4) electoral work to defeat the Right while building the Left and a stronger DSA; and 5) rethinking our organizing practices and structures to facilitate our longer-range strategy.