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Why this group has been tracking statements made by MPs on LGBTQi issues?
Updated On: 30 April, 2023 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Arpika Bhosale
Pink List India documents every current Parliamentarian’s stand on LGBTQi issues. Its founders tell us about why this ‘invisible’ work is crucial
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The ‘State of the Qunion’ is a map created by the founders of Pink List India, to highlight what MPs in your constituencies think about LGBTQi rights. Areas in hot-pink denote that the parliamentarians in that region have an opinion on the issue, while the light pink indicates MPs who have been silent
We knew we might be cited, but when it happened I still thought to myself, ‘It wasn’t all a waste of time was it?”, says 26-year-old Anish Gawande cheekily. A Mumbai boy, Gawande is the founder of Pink List India, a group that has been tracking every statement made by every Member of Parliament (MP) on the LGBTQi community for the last five years—in support of, against or not at all.
The group catapulted into national consciousness when lawyer Anand Grover cited them in his argument in Supreme Court when pre-empting the government’s argument that the decision on same sex-marriage should be left to Parliament. “I have given [to the court],” he said on April 24, “a document by… the Pink List India and they have been observing and monitoring what is happening to LGBTQi issues in Parliament and there has been no positive response…”
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