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|label1 = Editor
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|data4= Quarterly
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|data5= 6,000 (2009 est.)
|label6= Publication history
|data6= 2009–2017
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|data8= [[India]]
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'''''Pink Pages''''' was an [[India]]n [[LGBT]] magazine that published online and print issues from 2009 to 2017. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pg/pinkpagesindia/about/?ref=page_internal|title= Official Facebook page of Pink Pages}}</ref>

==Background==
''Pink Pages'' was founded by in 2009, with Udayan Dhar as the editor in chief.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rainbow-chronicles/509187/0|title=Rainbow Chronicles| accessdate=2009-09-01|publisher=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pink-pages.co.in/new/general/press/pink-in-the-armour/| title=Pink in the Armour|accessdate=2009-09-01|publisher=TimeOut Magazine}}</ref> The magazine was distributed online free of cost and had readers and contributors from across [[India]], making it an [[LGBT]] magazine with a national focus. Pink Pages, combined politics, activism and interviews with celebrities, lifestyle stories and readers’ own personal accounts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pink-pages.co.in/general/press/swedish|title=Optimism springs eternal among Indian gays| accessdate=2010-07-02|publisher=Svenska Dagbladet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/lifestyle/india-now-has-seven-magazines-on-gay-issues_100408919.html|title=India now has seven magazines on gay issues| accessdate=2010-08-08|publisher=IANS}}</ref>

The first issue was released within days of the historic [[Delhi High Court]] judgement decriminalizing [[homosexuality in India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pink-pages.co.in/new/general/press/coming-out-soon/| title=LGBT Magazines|accessdate=2010-03-13|publisher=TimeOut Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stickyrice.ws/?view=bombay-kolkata| title=From Mumbai to Kolkata – The rainbow is flying high over India|accessdate=2010-03-13|publisher=Stickyrice}}</ref>

''Pink Pages'' was denied permission to print by the Registrar of Newspapers in [[India]] in October 2010, which was widely viewed as a homophobic act by the Government body.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/211210-e-magazine-LGBT-magzine-Print-Pune.htm| title=Popular gay E-mag denied imprimatur|accessdate=2010-12-21|publisher=MidDay}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=hub041210NO_FUN_IN.asp| title=No fun in thinking straight|accessdate=2010-12-04|publisher=Tehelka}}</ref> The first print issue was eventually released in 2016.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://pink-pages.co.in/ Official site]

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[[Category:Cultural magazines]]
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[[Category:English-language magazines published in India]]
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