India (and South Asia) Sexuality Minorities Rights Page | www.sacw.net
Last updated on March 25, 2007
Contacts:

India:

The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
Voices against 377
Humjinsi
Naz Foundation International
Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action (LABIA) [formerly known as Stree Sangam]
Good As You
Sangama: Resource Center on Sexuality
Sangini
Sambhavna Trust
Gay Delhi and Humrahi Trust
Aids Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA)
Sapho
Queer Kerala

South Asia, Diaspora & International Contacts:

Blue Diamond Society
Companions on a Journey

Trikone | (SALGA) The South Asian Lesbian & Gay Association NYC

International Lesbian and Gay Association
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Al Fatiha Foundation



Other Resources:

- Nigah: a festival of South Asian queer film! (4-5 March, 2005, Chicago)

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BOMgAY A film by Riyad Vinci Wadia
- QFilmistan: The first South Asian LGBT film festival in North America (2001)
- Larzish: The Tremors of a Revolution
- Call for contributions to the LARZISH: 1st International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality, India, 2003
- Photo Essay on the Hijras of Pakistan
- Transgenders South Asia Mailing List
- Homosexuality in India: Past and Present by Ruth Vanita
- An Interview with Urvashi Vaid (Samar Magazine)

Wrapped in a Cocoon : Sexual Minorities in West Bengal
by Prothoma Rai Chaudhri 
(Economic and Political Weekly, March 17, 2007)

Revise Section 377:
Sodomy and rape should not receive equal treatment
- Arvind Narrain & Vivek Divan ( The Times of India, 12 Jan, 2007)

Section 377 and the Dignity of Indian Homosexuals
- Alok Gupta (
Economic and Political Weekly, November 18, 2006)

Pakistan's ground breaking drag artist
- Syed Shoaib Hasan (BBC, November
6, 2006)

India: Human Rights versus Section 377
- Anil Divan (The Hindu, October 12, 2006)

Open Letter for the overturning of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
- Vikram Seth and Others (September 2006)

Statement in support of the Open Letter by Vikram Seth and others re section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
- Amatya Sen (Hindustan Times, September 15, 2006)

Desine Denied, desire defined (A book review)
- Gautam Bhan (Tehelka, July 8, 2006)

Sexuality: A Realm of Politics (Book review of 'Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and South-East Asia edited by Geetanjali Mishra, Radhika Chandiramani;
Sage, New Delhi, 2005)

- Arvind Narrain (Economic and Political Weekly, March 25, 2006)

Nothing Unnatural About it
- Rakesh Shukla (The Times of India, February 13, 2006)

Nepal Police on 'Sexual Cleansing' Drive
 - Human Rights Watch Press Release (January 13, 2006)

Letter to Indian Prime Minister Singh
On the arrest of four men on charges of homosexual conduct in Lucknow
 - Scott Long, Human Rights Watch (January 11, 2006)

A Historical Fact (Book Review : Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West, Ruth Vanita)
- by Anita Joshua 
(January 1, 2006)

Nepal: Social Exclusion of Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Sunil Babu Pant (Blue Diamond Society, October 2005)

India: A battle for sexual rights 
- Siddharth Narain (Frontline May 7-May 20, 2005)

India: Protest against using law 'to harass sexual minorities' (The Hindu, March 1, 2005)

Love/Friendship/Desire
An Interview with Ruth Vanita, author of Same Sex Love in India
-
Elyse Weingarten (March 2005)

Canada gay union Bill raises storm in Punjab (Times of India, January 28, 2005)

Crossing sexual boundaries in Nepal
- Charles Haviland (BBC, January 26, 2005)

Homosexual victim exposes the Delhi press
In the case of a double murder in Delhi, it is the "dark underbelly"of print journalism rather than homosexuality that needs to be examined
- Aniruddha Dutta [9/8/2004 ]

Sexuality  and Identity: Hetero-Normativity as Censorship            
by Akshay Khanna (2004)

India: It's a queer case!
- Namita Bhandare (The Hindustan Times, August 17, 2004)


Strange mindset
- Anjali Gopalan (Letter to The Hindustan Times, August 17, 2004)

Nepal: Sexual Rights Group at Risk of Closure
- Human Rights Watch Press Release
(July 23, 2004)
  

Pro-Gay Movement Gathers Steam in India
(OneWorld, UK, July 2, 2004)

India: 'Lesbians want space, not publicity'
- Bachi Karkaria (Times of India, June 19, 2004)

India: Dear Mr Razdan, homosexuals are not freaks
- Tejal Shah (Times of India, June 14, 2004)

A perspective from India: Homosexuality stands criminalized because of a mid 19th century colonial law
- Aditya Bondyopadhyay (April 13, 2004
Palais des Nations, Geneva; Switzerland)

There are no short cuts to queer utopia: Sodomy, law and social change
- Arvind Narrain (Lines, February 2004)

India: Section 377: How natural is normal?
- Nivedita Menon (SACW, January 1, 2004)

India: Sexuality and Law [campaign against the repeal of section 377]
- Siddharth Narrain (Frontline Dec.20, 2003-Jan.2, 2004)

Draft of Open Letter Challenging Government of India's assertion not to decriminalise homosexuality and to create public opinion

India: Law - Punishment of Crimes for Enforcement of Morality
- Rakesh Shukla (October 30, 2003)

In a twilight world  - The eunuchs of India
- Siddarth Narrrain (October 11, 2003)

Minority Matters
- Anjali Gopalan (Interview, The Times of India, September 20, 2003)

Gays in India : Keeping the closet door closed
- Siddharth Srivastava (International Herald Tribune, September 17, 2003)

Why should homosexuality be a crime?
- (The Times of India, September 19, 2003)

Same-sex South Asia
- M V Ramana (Himal Magazine July 2003)

Human rights violations against sexuality minorities in India
- A PUCL-K fact-finding report about Bangalore (2003)

Police Abuse of AIDS Workers Worsens Epidemic in India
- Human Rights Watch (2002)

Lesbian Activism in Sri Lanka
- Women's Support Group of the Companions on a Journey (Lines, May 2002)

'End psychiatric abuse against homosexuals in India'
- IGHLRC ALert (2001)

For People Like Us
- Ashwini Sukthankar (New Internationalist 328, October 2000)

The Law and Homosexuality in India
- Sherry Joseph (CEHAT. International Conference on Preventing Violence, Caring for Survivors, Nov 28-30, 1998. YMCA, Mumbai)

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