Archive for the category Personal Stories

Video: Dealing With Family – குடும்பத்தினரை சமாளிப்பது எப்படி?

By Orinam Feb 10 2014 20 Comments

In this hangout, some of Orinam's members who are gay, talk about how they dealt with their family members post coming out.

Video: Growing up gay and Tamil – தற்பாலீர்ப்பு தமிழர்களாய் வளர்ந்த அனுபவங்கள்

By Orinam Jan 27 2014 55 Comments

In this hangout, some of Orinam's members who are gay, talk about their respective journeys of realizing and accepting their sexuality and their coming out stories.

How I dealt with depression and suicidal thoughts

By Shankar Ganesh Jan 13 2014 3 Comments

A young gay man from India writes about how he overcame depression and suicidal thoughts

On the Other Side of the Closet

By Suryatapa Mukherjee Dec 19 2013 3 Comments

Suryatapa Mukherjee updates us on her coming out journey as bisexual, first shared on Orinam in January 2013.

Why should you care? Voice out against Sec 377!

By Arun Mirchandani Dec 19 2013 1 Comment

How does section 377 impact you since you are not a homosexual?

A Bad Day for Law and Love: writing 11-12-13

By Orinam Dec 15 2013 6 Comments

Write to us (prose, poetry, short, long) about what you went through when you learned about the Supreme Court's Dec 11, 2013, judgement that rendered LGBT people in India criminals again.

To Raghu, with love

By Guest Author Sep 10 2013 1 Comment

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An Orinam reader reflects on the suicide of his cousin brother.

Queer Madras of the mid-1980s, and sundry musings on sexuality

By Guest Author Aug 21 2013 1 Comment

Musings on the fludiity of desire sparked by the author's experiences of living in Chennai in the 1980s, with additional reflections on what this could mean for gay rights discourse that was taking root in India in the '90s.