A Mumbai-based NGO working in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) space, had recently released a manual for counsellors supportive of parents of LGBT children. Some time ago, the same NGO had organised a meet wherein they had named and shamed doctors who had promised such parents that they could change their children’s sexual preferences by ‘techniques’ such as shock or aversion therapy.

Few days ago, a lesbian couple in the city attempted to commit suicide — only one of girls survived.