Prarthana Prasad recently won Cosmopolitan’s LGBTQiA+ Voice of the Year. She says the idea behind her account, which she started during the lockdown, was to create content she would personally like to see. Through her page, she explores the funny and unfunny aspects of being lesbian, including tongue-in-cheek clapbacks on relatives and family for their veiled barbs and straight-faced satire designed as helpful tutorials for non-ally heterosexuals. “My idea was to target the LGBTQ community and give them content they’d like 
to see.”
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Instagram: @shorthairedbrownqueer

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Spreading love through music

Musician and music educator, Jay Anand founded The Queer Plexus. It is an online community that talks about issues faced by the queer at workplaces. “The idea is to help prevent people from facing disadvantages due to their gender and/or sexual identity,” he says.
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Instagram: @jayinprocess

Using social media as a canvas

YouTuber and independent filmmaker Nishtha Berry started expressing herself online despite the trolling. Berry’s page focuses on changing attitudes towards gay people and calling out haters and homophobic social media users, while unapologetically expressing herself.
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Instagram: @berrylicious_4

Neuroqueer and proud of it

As a sexuality educator with over six years of experience, Apurupa Vatsalya is vocal about the need for comprehensive sexuality education to be more widespread. “It covers the whole gamut of the human experience of sexuality, which encompasses relationships and intergenerational negotiations, while also touching upon elements of the social experience, dating, pleasure, and intersections of religions and culture with one’s own sexuality,” says Vatsalya, who is autistic and neuroqueer. Her platform spreads awareness about what it means to be queer and neurodivergent. “I wanted to speak to people with similar experiences.”
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Instagram: @inapurupriate