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Violence, data and silence
- ThePrint: NCRB stopped collecting hate crime data
- CJP: removal of honour killing and communal violence categories from NCRB data
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry: LGBTQIA+ suicide data scarcity
- The Leaflet: NCRB transgender crime data
- Trans Murder Monitoring: Nirmal, 2025
- Trans Murder Monitoring: Hyderabad, 2025
- Trans Murder Monitoring: Nizamabad, 2024
- Dialogues in Health: Indian news reporting on LGBTQ+ suicides
- The News Minute: Namakkal case
Encounters and trials
- The News Minute: Sirpurkar Commission findings
- BOOM: Hyderabad encounter ruled fake
- Moneylife / Bar & Bench: Badlapur magistrate inquiry
- Scroll: 813 encounter killing cases in six years
- NCRB analysis: rape trial outcomes, 2024
Law and policy
- The Leaflet: NMC on conversion therapy
- Indian Psychiatric Society statement (Orinam)
- Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026
- PRS India: Transgender Bill 2026 text
Surveys and attitudes
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Research papers
The full library, with what each found and its limits, is on the research library. Direct links:
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male · Kinsey, Pomeroy & Martin, 1948
- The adjustment of the male overt homosexual · Evelyn Hooker, 1957
- A genetic study of male sexual orientation · Bailey & Pillard, 1991
- A difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men · Simon LeVay, 1991
- A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation · Hamer et al., 1993
- Homosexuality in men and number of older brothers · Blanchard & Bogaert, 1996
- Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in LGB populations · Ilan Meyer, 2003
- Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men's sexual orientation · Anthony Bogaert, 2006
- PET and MRI show differences in cerebral asymmetry and functional connectivity between homo- and heterosexual subjects · Savic & Lindström, 2008
- Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in LGB young adults · Ryan et al., 2009
- Appropriate therapeutic responses to sexual orientation · American Psychological Association Task Force, 2009
- Genetic and environmental effects on same-sex sexual behavior: a population study of twins in Sweden · Långström et al., 2010
- US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: psychological adjustment of 17-year-old adolescents · Gartrell & Bos, 2010
- The social environment and suicide attempts in LGB youth · Mark Hatzenbuehler, 2011
- Genome-wide scan demonstrates significant linkage for male sexual orientation · Sanders et al., 2015
- LGB-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy for young adult gay and bisexual men · Pachankis et al., 2015
- Sexual orientation, controversy, and science · Bailey et al., 2016
- Difference-in-differences analysis of state same-sex marriage policies and adolescent suicide attempts · Raifman et al., 2017
- Music therapy for depression · Aalbers et al., 2017
- Male homosexuality and maternal immune responsivity to the Y-linked protein NLGN4Y · Bogaert et al., 2018
- Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior · Ganna et al., 2019
- An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals · Monk et al., 2019
- Parent-initiated sexual orientation change efforts with LGBT adolescents · Ryan et al., 2020
- Association between recalled exposure to gender identity conversion efforts and psychological distress and suicide attempts · Turban et al., 2020
- Sexual orientation change efforts, adverse childhood experiences, and suicide ideation and attempt · Blosnich et al., 2020
- LGBTQ+ suicides in Indian news media, 2001–2022 · Dialogues in Health, 2025