Fashion has always been a platform for self-expression and identity. It allows individuals to showcase their personality, creativity, and interests through clothes and accessories. However, there has been a shift in recent years towards a more fluid approach to fashion, one that embraces ease and individuality in a world that is constantly changing and evolving.

Gone are the days when fashion was strictly defined by rigid gender norms and societal expectations. Today, we are witnessing a rise in gender-neutral and gender-fluid clothing, breaking free from the constraints of traditional fashion norms. Whether it is men wearing skirts or women opting for oversized shirts, fashion is becoming more inclusive and accepting of individuality.

The fluidity in fashion extends beyond gender, with a focus on comfort and ease becoming more prominent. The rise of ath leisure, a combination of athletic wear and leisure wear, exemplifies this shift. People are now opting for comfortable clothing in their everyday lives, without sacrificing style. Activewear is no longer just for the gym; it has become a fashion statement that can be worn anywhere, anytime.

The fashion industry has also adapted to this fluid approach with the rise of sustainable and ethical fashion. Consumers are now more conscious of the environmental impact of their clothing choices. As a result, they are opting for brands that prioritize sustainability and ethical production practices. This shift has led to a rise in slow fashion, where quality and durability are emphasized over fast fashion trends. With the focus on longevity, individuals can invest in pieces that can be worn for years to come, rather than constantly buying new items.

Another aspect of fluid fashion is the blurring of style boundaries. Fashion is no longer defined by specific categories such as casual, formal, or bohemian. People are now mixing and matching different styles, creating their own unique fashion aesthetic. Boho-chic with a touch of streetwear? Why not! The possibilities are endless, allowing individuals to experiment and express themselves freely.

Social media and technology also play a significant role in the fashion fluid movement. Platforms like Instagram ,Youtube and TikTok have given individuals the power to become their own fashion icons. Influencers and creators share their personal style and inspire others to embrace their individuality. Fashion is no longer dictated by top designers; it is now driven by everyday people who are showcasing their fashion choices online.

Furthermore, technology has made fashion more accessible than ever before. With online shopping, individuals can browse a vast array of options, discover new brands, and have their purchases delivered directly to their doorstep. This accessibility has empowered people to explore different fashion styles and experiment with their looks.

I wound like to say fashion fluidity is a celebration of ease, individuality, and inclusivity. It breaks free from traditional fashion norms, embracing gender neutrality, comfort, sustainability, and personal style. Thanks to social media and technology, the fashion landscape is changing, giving individuals the power to express themselves like never before. So go ahead, embrace fashion fluidity and let your personal style shine!

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Garima Greh under Mitr Trust is a shelter home run by Rudrani Chhetri, who is a human rights activist for the LGBTQ+, Hijra and Transgender Community. Currently heading a health and human rights organzation for the upliftment of trans men and women. It’s a remarkable shelter home housing close to 25 housemates, educating nd upskilling for a better living and work opportunity.

The journey of a trans person is overwhelming with alot of challenges they face in their daily lives. Resources and employment opportunities are marginal to non-existing. We have more often associated the Trans Community with having to beg and do sex-work. What options do they have? Hence, they fall vulnerable and prey to alot of discrimination and abuse. They have been scarred and resillient. Hence, they come-out LOUD & NOT SO PROUD.

Here at Garima Greh, they are brought inhouse to firstly heal them of the torments they have gone through and counsel. Further educate, upskill and help them provide a better understanding of the life they could possibly attain that they dream of. Employment opportunities are barely accessible to them.

Qucciberry joins hands with Garima Greh to help upskill and provide employment opportunity by making candles for our online e-commerce portal www.qucciberry.com and other market places. We are looking for corporates and queer entrepreneurs to come forward and join hands with us towards this initiative.

Hoping for a better future and all the love and best wishes to Garima Greh and it’s housemates. Let’s bring in a positive change and better tomorrow.

Author – Charles Williams

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Being fashionable or a total wacko is often difficult and to locate appropriate beauty, fashion advice can sometimes be tedious and scrutinising. We spend a lot of time mentally and physically to gauge such aspects and then put them in place. Dress, look and smell good, that’s what attracts men and women.

We’ve decided to take that on bring in a wide range of wellness products. Introducing Qucciberry Eau de Parfum pheromone based! When you spray perfume on your skin, several factors affect the fragrance of the perfume. For example, the pH value of your skin, the acidity of your skin fats, what you eat and your hormone balance influence how the perfume will smell. Either you’re submissive or dominant, we have it for all. Wear your style quotient and make heads turn.

Author – Charles Williams

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Embracing the freedom and togetherness is what we are all looking for. As a same sex couple, create your own customs and flaunt it to the world. Engagement rings aren’t only limited to heterosexual couples, gone are those days. You can also choose a loveband, an engagement ring, a wedding ring, etc. Wear it on the right ring finger until the ceremony, and then switching it to the left ring finger once married. If you choose both, an engagement ring and a wedding band, you can wear them stacked, or one on each hand. It’s your call, your decision, your rights, wear them, flaunt it.Bind yourselves together with the Qucciberry Lovebands.

Check out the beautifully hand crafted rings of Qucciberry in Sterling Silver and Rainbow Stones theme. A perfect pair for you both. So are you ready to find your lovebands? Qucciberry is out and proud to offer you great selection of LGBTQ lovebands to get you started on life together with your lover. For love is love!

Congratulations! and best wishes from Charles Williams.

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As a young gay man at heart, we do many wonderful staycations and weekend getaways with our partners and or friends. It could mean to hit a beach, a hike, a river raft, a jungle safari, or simply a picturesque hill. Breaking the mundane and monotonous daily life and work life, we need to give ourselves and our relationships some beautiful memories to be cherished when we go down memory lane.

Exploring places, people, cultures, food and some romantic or flirty moments can be so rejuvenating. It’s double the pleasure when we check-in to a gay friendly homestay, boutique guesthouse or hotel. There are many that one can find online. Make sure you book the right place. You may also choose your local gay travel agent hosting bespoke service and group tours. It’s simply blissful!

In case you are checking out your gay dating app to explore local boys and men to enhance your taste buds for more, make sure you tick all your check boxes as a precautionary measure. Be safe, play safe, travel safe and make memories!!

Charles Williams (Author)

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A  man purse,  a wallet, a murse, a man clutch, a mutch – call it what you will but this unique accessory from Qucciberry is amongst one of our favourite accessory, handcrafted and created. Big enough to fit paper and plastic currency, passport, etc. They are the perfect carry around for the uber-sexual male when he is travelling to work, leisure, pleasure, etc. It’s so vital to our day-to-day life, that I wore through the leather and had to replace it with my old one. Reasonably priced around the Rs 450 – Rs 600 mark, this is a faux leather product which won’t blow your budget.

Charles Williams (Author)

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Fashion has a considerable impact on the way fashionable people dress and present themselves and relies heavily on how social media and advertising are communicating the production mindsets and preferences to influence public perception through various types of styles. At the same time, fashion is influenced by socio-economic change and counter-trends outside the makers, retailers or advertisers control.

As fashion is driven by trends within and without the fashion industry, it represents out of the box thinking, creative ideas, trends and innovation to the mass population. Fashion consumption in modern society, is likely to create and modify the media that they consume, and traditional makers of fashion and advertisers adapting their practices to avoid dilution of their own influence.

Hence, it is all about being comfortable in your own skin and try out new styles and flaunt them posing vibrant colors, glam and being affordable at the same time. Fashion is unique, fashion is “yourself”. Your creative ideas with changing fashion trends, makes you flaunt the multi dimensional personality for “being a trend setter in you”.

Charles Williams (Author)

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The decision followed a protracted struggle by activists and members of the community against the repressive law, introduced in 1861 when India was under British rule. It threatened imprisonment, even a lifetime sentence, and a fine for those who engaged in what it labelled as “unnatural offences” or intercourse “against the order of nature.”

Here’s a chronology of the battle against section 377 in India, which spans 2 decades:

November-December 1991: A document detailing the experiences of gay people in India is released by the AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA), an organisation fighting discrimination against those affected by HIV or AIDS. The 70-page report reveals the shocking extent of blackmail, extortion, and violence that gay people faced, especially at the hands of the police.
The report calls for the repeal of legislation that discriminates against members of the LGBTQ community, including section 377. But when released at the Press Club of India, journalists are reportedly so embarrassed they don’t raise a single question.

May 1994: Controversy erupts after Kiran Bedi, inspector general of the Tihar jail in Delhi, refuses to provide condoms for inmates, saying it would encourage homosexuality, besides admitting that inmates indulge in it. In response, ABVA files a writ petition in the Delhi high court, demanding that free condoms be provided, and that section 377 be recognised as unconstitutional. Despite long-running efforts to mobilise support, the petition is eventually dismissed in 2001.

December 2001: The Naz Foundation, a Delhi-based NGO established in 1994, with the primary aim of serving various communities by responding to the issue of HIV/AIDS, raising awareness about prevention, providing care and support to children and people with HIV, and removing stigma and discrimination against them. The Foundation files a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi high court, challenging the constitutionality of section 377 and calling for the legalisation of homosexuality.

September 2004: The Delhi high court dismisses the case, saying there is no cause of action and that purely academic issues cannot not be examined by the court. A review petition filed by the Naz Foundation is also dismissed a few months later.

February 2006: After the Naz Foundation files a special leave petition for the case, the supreme court reinstates it in the Delhi high court, citing the fact that it is an issue of public interest. In the coming months, Voices Against 377, a coalition of NGOs, joins the petition, while India’s ministry of home affairs files an affidavit against the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

July 2009: In a landmark judgment, a Delhi high court bench consisting of chief justice Ajit Prakash Shah and justice S Muralidhar decides to strike down section 377, saying it violates the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and equality as enshrined in the Indian constitution. But critics, including Suresh Kumar Koushal, a Delhi-based astrologer, challenge the Delhi high court’s decision in the supreme court.

December 2013: The LGBTQ community suffers a significant blow when the supreme court overturns the Delhi high court’s judgment, saying section 377 “does not suffer from the vice of unconstitutionality and the declaration made by the division bench of the high court is legally unsustainable.”

June 2016: Navtej Singh Johar, an award-winning Bharatanatyam dancer, files a writ petition in the supreme court challenging section 377, along with four other high-profile Indians, including chef Ritu Dalmia and hotelier Aman Nath.

August 2017: A nine-judge supreme court bench hearing petitions against India’s biometric programme Aadhaar unanimously rules that privacy is a fundamental right. In its judgment, the court also says, “Sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy. Discrimination against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to the dignity and self-worth of the individual,” raising the hopes of those campaigning against section 377.

April 2018: Top hotelier Keshav Suri, the son of late Lalit Suri, the founding chairman and owner of Bharat Hotels, which runs the Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, who identifies as gay, joins the fight, files a petition with the supreme court. Suri reportedly identifies himself as a part of India’s LGBTQ community. He wants India to allow an individual the right to choose his or her partner.

His counsel told the supreme court on April 23 that the “petitioner himself has suffered mentally and been stigmatised on account of his sexual orientation at personal and professional fronts…”

July 2018: A five-judge bench of the supreme court, including chief justice Dipak Misra, begins hearing the petitions filed by Johar and others against section 377. While supporters of the law claim the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the disintegration of India’s social fabric as reasons to retain it, many of the justices make encouraging comments. “It is not an aberration but a variation,” justice Indu Malhotra says.

A central government affidavit leaves the decision on the section’s constitutionality to the court’s wisdom. The supreme court decides to reserve its verdict.

September 2018: In a unanimous verdict, the supreme court decides to scrap section 377, which chief justice Misra describes as ”irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary,” marking a triumphant end to a lengthy struggle for justice.

Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said homosexuality is documented in 1,500 species and is not unique to humans.

The judge, with this single observation, dispelled the prejudice that homosexuality is against the order of nature. Justice Chandrachud quoted from an article he read which said that homosexual behaviour existed in all species except those that “never have sex at all, such as sea urchins and aphis.” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra also wrote, “What nature gives is natural. That is called nature within.”

The Chief Justice quoted German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who said, “I am what I am, so take me as I am.”

Justice Chandrachud compared same-sex love to those of couples who married outside their caste, religion and faith, at enormous personal risk. The judge located the struggle of citizens belonging to sexual minorities in the larger history of the struggles against various forms of social subordination.

Thus, he observed, the limits imposed by structures such as gender, caste, class, religion and community made the “right to love” not just a separate battle for LGBTQ individuals, but a battle for all.

“What Section 377 speaks of is not just about non-procreative sex but is about forms of intimacy which the social order finds ‘disturbing’. This includes various forms of transgression such as inter-caste and inter-community relationships which are sought to be curbed by society. What links LGBT individuals to couples who love across caste and community lines is the fact that both are exercising their right to love at enormous personal risk and in the process disrupting existing lines of social authority,” Justice Chandrachud wrote.

The long road ahead

The fight for equal rights, including same-sex marriage and serving in the military, had not been won.

• There is no official data on the LGBT+ population in India, the world’s largest democracy, but the government estimates there are 2.5 million gay people.
• LGBT+ rights activists say the true figure could be far higher and want authorities to spread awareness about gay rights to prevent the verdict from fading into irrelevance.
• Others are calling for anti-discriminatory laws to help LGBT people gain access to jobs, healthcare, education and housing.
• An online petition calling for gender-neutral legislation, including a rape law that would also protect men, transgender and intersex people has gained more than 9,000 signatures.
• India has been pushing for more rights for transgender people but the government has remained largely silent on gay rights.

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