Some men like Jack and some like Jill
I'm glad I like them both but still
I wonder if this freewheeling
Really is an enlightened thing,
Or is its greater scope a sign
Of deviance from some party line?
In the strict ranks of Gay and Straight
What is my status: Stray? Or Great?
-- Vikram Seth from Dubious

It is not just people but places too that are opening their hearts and minds to greater acceptance of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community. On Wednesday evening, the Crossword bookstore at Kemps Corner hosted the launch of a book called, ‘Out! Stories from the New Queer India’. The book was launched by actor Nandita Das, who became a voice, even though inadvertently, in the LGBT awareness campaign as early as 1996 when she acted in the film ‘Fire’, a movie about lesbian love.