Chennai: Summer of 2004
Ani recalls the summer of 2004 and his first brush with Orinam.
Archive for the tag coming out narratives
Standing Out
We must focus on how we can be better humans: not what someone wears or who they sleep with.
visiBIlity
It took me 27 years to admit I wasn't straight.
The biggest exam of my life: Bubbly comes out to family in Chennai
Bubbly writes to her parents and sister in Chennai, explaining why she cancelled her engagement.
‘The smartphone freed me’: a journey of dating as a transwoman
In which Nadika describes how Second Life, a smart phone, and dating sites helped her explore dating as a transwoman.
Coming Out Late, Coming Clean
Purush comes out to his parents, wife, close relatives and friends through this letter.
Gender fluidity: my experiences and ideas
To those who insist on me mentioning a label, I usually say “genderfluid”. parts
Sex Change in the Time of Saffron Politics
Sex change is my farewell to 23 years of being, trying to be, pretending to be and for days to come, trying to give being a chance.
South Asian, Married, and Queer? Seeking submissions
Orinam invites submissions in the form of essays, stories, interviews and poems by South Asian LGB cispeople in marriages to individuals of the other sex, by trans individuals in marriages they entered into (or were forced into) based on their gender assigned at birth, and by spouses of such queer/trans people.
Coming out to my dad
Shankar Ganesh describes how he came out to his father.
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