Our Top Stories for Pride 2025
This June, explore some of our favorite long reads on queer South Asian icons, history, and culture.
How did Nepal become the first South Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage? Why does one Rekha interview continue to challenge Indian views on sexuality? And how did Pakistani poet Ifti Nasim shape Urdu literature?
For Pride Month 2025, we bring you some of our most powerful, deeply reported stories on South Asian queer communities, history, and culture. Here are 15 long reads you can bookmark throughout the month to polish up on your queer South Asian knowledge. If you want to support some of the best South Asian journalism and help us tell untold stories, join our subscriber community today (and pitch us any story ideas!).