Editor’s Note
Dear Reader,
Welcome to our Pride Issue which was supposed to be the first print edition of Outcast Magazine!
Sweekar: The Rainbow Parents Group
Aruna Desai talks about Sweekar, an LGBT support group for the parents by the parents based in Mumbai, with the goal...
Our Love
Two desert jewels,radiant pink and violet,emerge from the groundto blossom anew.Stems entwined,hugging close,the leaves of oneshielding the otherfrom the torching sun for...
Jimmy and Me
Young Jimmy has a circle around him at one end of the bar, and I have one around me, where I am...
Anthem
From the margins we come, dancing. This poem is a dance floor. We fill it: with our bodies; with our love; with...
Messages from the Team
Sania Bilwani
Prose Editor
Working with Outcast has been a great...
To J.
I’m by the pool, immersed in the blue memoryof the sea. And he is there,in shorts, half hidden in the beach umbrella,...
Through
When on days you undress like trees, whenit is autumn, you become one of them;
like a stranger, I...
The Man in Your Mirrors
Words slash your jug’lardraining love from pleading eyes.I see my monster.
