The 1st Rainbow Awards ceremony was held at Rainbow Lit Fest, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi on 10 December 2023. It celebrated writers from 1 January 2022 and journalists from 1 June 2022, both until 31 May 2023.
Jury The nine-member jury composed of following members evaluated the submissions and decide on the award winners. Rohin Bhatt, queer rights activist, lawyer and bioethicist, served as a co-coordinator.
Adrija Bose, editor Alka Pande, art historian and writer Anish Gawande, co-found of the Pink List India Jyotsna Siddharth, artist and writer Kalki Subramaniam, activist, artist and writer Parvati Sharma, writer Poonam Saxena, writer and translator Sindhu Rajasekaran, writer and researcher
Winners and nominees
Lifetime Achievement Award Hoshang Merchant, a Hyderabad-based poet and professor best known for his anthology Yaraana, was honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award.
Literature Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick by Niladri R. Chatterjee (Niyogi Books) Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel (Flatiron Books) The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra (HarperVia) Footprints of a Queer History: Life-stories from Gujarat by Maya Sharma (Yoda Press) I Am Onir and I am Gay by Onir with Irene Dhar Malik (Penguin Random House) Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India by K Vaishali (Simon & Schuster)
Journalism Brahmin Men Who Love to Eat A** by Akhil Kang (Decolonizing Sexualities Network) The Horrors of Queer Conversion Therapy in India by Nolina Minj (Scroll) Seen-Unseen by Riddhi Dastidar (Queer Beat) Queering Translation: Locating Queerness in Indian Languages by Chittajit Mitra (Hindustan Times) Why Saurabh Kirpal Needs to Be Appointed as Judge? by Kinshuk Gupta (The Indian Express) Though Homosexuality Has Been Decriminalised, Two Incidents in Pune Show How Bias Still Prevails by R Raj Rao (Scroll)
See also
List of LGBT-related awards 34th GLAAD Media Awards
References