Last year, in our year-end feature, we had marked out some interesting signposts for gay people, some of which may have indeed been travelled past, while others remain bewitchingly enticing in the distance. Usually, year-end lists smack of wish-fulfillment rather than a realistic sense of what the queer community can achieve in a time-span of 52 weeks, given the odds that are stacked against it. The race against time hasn’t been something we’re particularly good at. Similarly, they’re not really like new year resolutions, because change is not something that the community can engineer only within itself - a lot of what Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) folk look forward to in the new year has to do with the parochial attitudes around us crumbling as we speak.

SPEAKING OUT: The community has joined in the voices protesting violence against women