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Follow The Rainbow Awards for more on the annual awards! Submissions open May 19.

As we move closer to May 19, when we open for submissions for the 2025 award, we’d like to introduce you to our coordinator, Yash Sharma, who plays a significant role behind the team. Welcome on board for the second year running, Yash! Rainbow Literature Festival

This post truly needs no explanation! Simply put, if I have what you have, doesn’t mean you are losing what you have! That’s what equality is! #equalityforall #LGBTQ #queer #iamwhoiam

#IDAHOBIT Queerphobia isn’t about us, it’s the fear left to rot in silence. Like stale water, it sours. We aren’t the stench. Fear is. So don’t fear us, meet us. Know us. Embrace us. Eat a phuchka, not the phobia. #AgainstQueerphobia #Transphobia #WhatIsQueerphobia

What does a happy queer life look like? For centuries, our joy was undocumented, our stories untold. We’re building blueprints from scratch: liberating, but tiring. Sometimes we don’t want to be pioneers. We just want to be held. #QueerVoices #LGBTQStories #QueerHistoryMatters

Thrilled to see the Rainbow Literature Festival & Rainbow Awards featured in The Established & Free Press Journal! Submissions for Rainbow Awards 2025 are now open; celebrating queer writing & reporting. Thanks for the recognition! #RainbowAwards2025 #QueerVoices

In Delhi’s Mehrauli lies the tomb of Jamali & Kamali; two men buried side by side. Eric Chopra reflects on what history won’t say: were they lovers? Why is it still so hard to name queer love in our past? Love has always been here. We just need to look closer. #JamaliKamali

In 1999, Hoshang Merchant gave India its first anthology of gay male writing—Yaarana. He fought silence, fear, and erasure to bring queer voices to light. “What hurts most is when they forget the poetry. I’m a gay man who writes poetry.” 🌈✍️ #HoshangMerchant #QueerLit

For Dharmesh Chaubey, coming out feels less like liberation and more like penance. A Western ritual of confession, it often fails to reflect how queerness quietly endures in South Asia, resisting borders and living without the need for declaration. #QueerVoices #ComingOut

Drag is protest. It’s poetry. It’s power. It tells stories too queer, too bold, too tender for the mainstream. In this reel, Krystal, Avatari, Lush and Patruni remind us drag isn’t just art. It’s resistance. Being seen is political. #DragIsProtest #ProtectQueerArt

"अगर मैं मछली मरी हुई की बात करूँ तो..." Kinshuk Gupta reflects on Hindi as both home and horizon. What if your mother tongue can’t hold your queerness? This isn’t rejection. It’s a call to stretch the language. To make space for longing, for love, for us. #QueerLiterature

This Pride Month, we honour parents like Katyayini’s, who met truth with love. In a country where queerness often faces violence, her mother listened and said, “You are mine.” Acceptance can be a lifeline. #QueerAndLoved #TransAcceptance #Pride2025

Meet Chetan Sumita, our second runner-up for Pride at Verse! Their poem We Never Left and We Never Will honours queer lives erased from memory and boldly declares we were always here, and we always will be. #PrideAtVerse #QueerPoetry #ChetanSumita

Meet Addhaya Anil, our first runner-up for Pride at Verse. Their poem is a tender reminder that queer love lives in the everyday — shared drawers, folded grocery lists, mangoes by the bed. #PrideAtVerse #AddhayaAnil #QueerPoetry #PrideMonth

Meet Umesh Kumari, winner of Pride at Verse. Her Hindi poem Main Uss Qaid Ko Ghar Nahin Maanti asks us to listen closely. If a home comes with silence, shame and control, she will not call it one. This is not just poetry. It is a declaration. #PrideAtVerse #HindiPoetry

The date is set, and the colours are coming together once more. The Rainbow Lit Fest: Queer & Inclusive returns on 6–7 December’25 at Gulmohar Park Club, New Delhi. A celebration of truth, joy and resistance. To speak & support: [email protected]

Seema Anand reminds us that moksha does not come from rejecting desire but understanding it. The Kamasutra treats pleasure as sacred. Joy is not a detour from the path. It is part of it. #SeemaAnand #RainbowLitFest #KamaAndMoksha #QueerSpirituality

For over 20 years, Santa Khurai built solidarity among trans communities across Manipur. Imphal became a refuge until 3rd May, when decades of trust were shaken. She speaks not from despair, but with quiet resolve to rebuild. #SantaKhurai #TransActivism