MEDIA: To request more contacts, especially in cities or languages not listed, please contact Minal: [email protected], Bangalore +91 99451 36640, San Francisco +001 415 937 1646. Parents and family contacts can be made available upon request. All requests must be sent to Minal.

The following LGBT community members and allies are available for interviews.

The list below is arranged by location. India phone numbers should be preceded by 011-91 if dialing from the United States. Fluency in regional languages is indicated in [brackets].

NOTE: This is a partial list and these individuals speak only for themselves. Please see http://orinam.net/377/ for continuing updates,  including official statements from organizations, and http://orinam.net/377/contacts-media-covering-377/  for the latest version of this list.  

INDIA

DELHI

• Arvind Narrain, advocate, Alternative Law Foundation – [email protected] 99800 10933
• Shaleen Rakesh – Naz Foundation; original petitioner on behalf of Naz Foundation in 2001 – [email protected] – 98018 56058
• Gautam Bhan  – coauthor of Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India –[email protected] – 99539 51219
• Minna Saran – signatory to the petition by parents of LGBT Indians against Section 377 –  98715 80628
• Aditya Bondyopadhyay – [email protected] – 98111 70181
• Ritu – 99999 77272
• Deepti – [email protected] 98990 19750
• Shohini Ghosh – [email protected] –  98180 88378
• Svati P. Shah – Fulbright Scholar – [email protected] – 9004987120
• K Rahul Sharma – Researcher, TERI; Co-Founder, QueerCampus; member of Delhi Queer Pride Committee – [email protected] – +91 9871907177 [Hindi]
• Abhina Aher – Programme Manager, Pehchan India HIV/AIDS Alliance – www.allianceindia.org – [email protected]; [email protected] – 09711170763 [Marathi, Hindi]
• Shiv Sahoo – Academic coordinator, Alliance Française de Delhi – [email protected] – +91 9990226545 [Hindi, Odiya, Bengali, French]
• Manak – Delhi Queer Pride Committee; Leading Must Bol campaign against gender-based violence – [email protected] – 9560100255 [Hindi, Punjabi]
• Mohnish Malhotra – 09891228951 [Hindi, Punjabi]
• Vinay Kumar – founder of Harmless Hugs support group; vp of Society of Universe Lovers (an ngo by LGBT people)  in Noida –  [email protected] – 9818854408 [Hindi]

MUMBAI

• Vikram Doctor – journalist – [email protected] – 98213 29037
• Chayanika Shah – Lesbians And Bisexuals In Action –[email protected] – 98193 56365 [Marathi]
• Ankit Bhuptani – founder of The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnav Association, Mumbai – [email protected] – +91 9920879663 [Hindi, Gujarati]
• Harish Iyer – LGBTIQ rights, child rights, animal rights, women’s rights – [email protected] – 9833100340 [Tamil, Hindi]
• Sonal Giani – Advocacy Officer – The Humsafar Trust, Core Member- Yaariyan (LGBT Youth Group), Core Member (Umang- LBT Support Group) – [email protected] – +91 9920560011 [Hindi]
• Kanishka Chaudhry – Queer Azaadi Mumbai; Sing A Smile – [email protected] – +91-9920947760 [Hindi]
• Prasad Bhide – corporate sector – [email protected] – +91 9820714281 [Marathi]
• Bhushan Kulkarni – Queer Azaadi Mumbai – [email protected] – +91-9820874579 [Marathi, Hindi]
• Sridhar Rangayan – KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival – [email protected] – [Hindi]
• Geeta Kumana – businesswoman / human rights activist – 9819930019 – [email protected] [Hindi, Gujarati]

CHENNAI

• Sunil Menon – Sahodaran – 93810 16129
• Vikram Sundarraman – 92451 25290 / 95661 31704 [email protected]
• Jaya Seelan – 98418 65412 [Tamil]
• L Ramakrishnan – [email protected] – 98414 76101/98415 57983
• Magdalene Jeyarathnam – Director, East West Center For Counselling & Training – magdalene.jeyarathnam@gmail.com – 9884100135  [Tamil]
• Shridhar Sadasivan, writer and Orinam volunteer/editor –[email protected] [Tamil-English translator]

BANGALORE

• Gowthaman Ranganathan, Alternative Law Foundation, 97398 41724 gowthaman.ranganathan@gmail.com
• Akkai Padmashali, 99800 42532 [email protected]
• Manohar Elavarthi 963222 3460 [email protected]
• Vinay Chandran, Swabhava Trust, 9844181294 [email protected]
• Shubha Chacko, Aneka, 81977 71372
• Minal Hajratwala – author; editor of Out! Stories from the New Queer India — 99451 36640 – [email protected]
• Harshavardhan Goel – Student, National Law School of India – 80956 01667 – [email protected]
• Shyam – founder of “Mist” LGBT collective – [email protected] 9742868503 [Hindi, Kannada]
•  Sukhdeep Singh – Gaylaxy magazine – [email protected]  – 9740579894,  7204290964  [Hindi, Punjabi]

HYDERABAD

• Kaveri Karthik – 8179542651 –  [email protected]

AHMEDABAD

• Dhaval Shah – [email protected] – 90990 24458 [Gujarati]
• Sakhi Shah – Student, National Law School of India – [email protected] – 8884218031 [Gujarati]

KOLKATA

• Malobika – Sappho for Equality – 98301 27146
• Agniva Lahiri – executive director of People Like Us (PLUS) –[email protected]  [Bengali]
• Kaushik Gupta – Lawyer, High Court at Calcutta – [email protected] – 9331042320 [Bengali]
• Ranjita Sinha – Secretary of Gokhale Road Bandhan – community activist – [email protected]/[email protected] – 9830027185 [Hindi, Bengali]

NAGPUR

• Anand Chand – Sarathi Trust – [email protected]

UK

• Dr Matthew Waites – University of Glasgow;  published article on 377 in International Journal of Human Rights – [email protected] – +44 (0)141 330 4049

CANADA

TORONTO

• Ponni Arasu – queer activist, lawyer, researcher – [email protected] –  647 772 5453

SOUTH AFRICA

• Dipika Nath – community activist – [email protected] – +27-78-980 3033

USA

NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY

• Charles Radcliffe – Chief, Global Issues Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsUnited Nations – [email protected] –  212 963 4953
• Ms. Eri Kaneko – Associate Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General – [email protected] –  1-917-367-5266 / 1-917-806-0248
• Shridhar Sadasivan, writer and Orinam volunteer/editor –[email protected] [Tamil-English translator]

WASHINGTON, DC

• Sapna Pandya – KhushDC; Co-founder, Humsafar International –[email protected] – 202-641-8207
• Mala Nagarajan – community activist –  [email protected] – 206-696-6754 – plaintiff in Washington State marriage equality lawsuit, married to wife in Hindu ceremony
• Harjant S Gill – professor & filmmaker, “Milind Soman Made Me Gay” –  [email protected] – 202-257-2999

SAN FRANCISCO

• Abhay Prasad – editor of Trikone magazine – [email protected]  415 613 7843
• Rajat Dutta – organizer of fundraising campaign <[email protected]>; past board member of Trikone – [email protected] – 415 218 1010 [Hindi]
• Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar – 650-762-5396 –[email protected]

BOSTON

• Karthik Rao Cavale – Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – [email protected] – 1-732-789-0720

   

MEDIA: To request more contacts, especially in cities or languages not listed, please send your request to:  
Minal Hajratwala, [email protected], Bangalore 99451 36640, San Francisco 415 937 1646