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Orinam.net is a bilingual website (Tamil and English) associated with the Chennai-based social-support-arts-advocacy group Orinam. The site contains information on alternate sexualities and gender identities and resources for the public, media, healthcare, educational institutions, workplaces, and family members of LGBT people. Our voices – The Orinam blog features news and views, personal stories and creative writing by Queers and allies.

Congratulations, Narthaki Nataraj!

By Orinam Dec 23 2011 3 Comments

Ms. Narthaki Nataraj, transwoman, is the 2011 recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Bharatanatyam.

Media Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanetham Pillay Publishes Groundbreaking Report On Violence Against LGBTI People

By Orinam Dec 15 2011 Post comment

Historic United Nations report documents widespread discrimination and violence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people worldwide, and calls on countries to apply the international legal framework to end these human rights violations.

Afsana, Bina, Mukti, Sangita, Sunita: our heroes too!

By Orinam Dec 15 2011 Post comment

Forced marriages of LGBT people are as unethical as child marriage, and resisting such marriages requires precisely the sort of courage that these girls from Purulia demonstrated.

Pune’s first Pride March: Sunday Dec 11, 2011

By Orinam Dec 8 2011 1 Comment

Pune will host its first Pride march on Sunday, December 11, 2011, becoming the ninth city in India to have such and event.

Hillary Clinton cites Naz judgement in historic UN Human Rights address, announces global equality fund for LGBTs

By Orinam Dec 7 2011 1 Comment

United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made reference to the Naz judgement and the tenet of inclusiveness as an underlying theme of the Indian constitution in her historic address on LGBT rights at the United Nations.

Dr. Anoop Gupta helps pre-op transsexual store sperm, same-sex couples have babies through surrogacy

By Orinam Dec 7 2011 Post comment

Dr. Anoop Gupta, medical director, Delhi IVF Fertility Research Centre, has pioneered in-vitro fertilization in the country, giving birth to the first test-tube baby in 1994. On Dec 5, 2011, Dr. Gupta was again in the news for helping a pre-operative male-to-female transexual store sperm prior to surgery, in order to enable future options of having a child through surrogacy.

Bangalore’s brush with homophobia on the night of the Gay Pride 2011

By Orinam Nov 30 2011 10 Comments

"I have been at my wit’s end grappling and struggling to come to terms with a rather unsavoury and a nasty incident that two of my gay friends A and B, my boyfriend and I have had to face and suffer – quite ironically – on the night of the LGBTIQ Pride in Bangalore."