Qind Blogazine is committed to offering readers and participants lifestyle options and alternatives beyond what is currently available. We believe in harnessing individual experiences to form a collective wisdom that improves our community. To achieve this, Qind poses issues and questions that challenge linear thinking and the two-dimensional ways in which we perceive and judge our world through prevailing assumptions and accepted wisdom. Through the creative contributions of different people with different experiences, we aim to inspire active discussion and sharing of different perspectives that can help individuals make their own informed decisions as to what is best for them.

We want to explore ways in which we move from objectifying ourselves and start to share a bit more about who we are through creativity.

To achieve this, we are dedicated to the following:

  1. To create a platform that presents issues that are in tune with the interests of our readership. Editorial content driven primarily driven by the readership. Readers suggest ideas for future issues and submit creative content based on issue briefs (text and/or images).

  2. To maintain an editorial balance between thought-provoking and fun and frivolous issues. Present the multi-dimensional nature of contemporary gay life. There is the fun and there is the serious. We have a place for both and much more besides!


  3. To create an open forum to share ideas and personal wisdom. Our readers have challenges, dreams and experiences to share on every conceivable topic. We present these voices in a non-judgemental, clear and articulate way to promote discussion and aid each other in our own personal development.


  4. To create value by marrying the virtual and real worlds. With the launch of each issue, Qind will host offline social events where contributors and readers will have the opportunity to have real debate and discussions. It is also an opportunity to meet diverse and interesting people in a comfortable setting where you do have something to talk about!


  5. To raise awareness of gay history and issues on a global level. Cosmopolitan centres of the Western world provide certain liberties that are still largely denied to the majority of our brethren elsewhere. Qind Blogazine looks to raise the awareness of the state of gay life across the world through the presentation of foreign cultures from a particular perspective to bring about change.

We encourage all our contributors, be they editors, writers, technologists, artists or readers to maintain the simple principles of letting go of preconceptions, having an open mind, being appreciative of what we have to share and learn, and having a willingness to embrace meaningful and productive ways of interacting with each other. Simply, let go, be thankful, be Qind.

To find out how to be a part of Qind, check out a little more about us: participation .