FAQ-Chennai-Pride-March
Replies to Frequently Asked Questions on the Chennai Rainbow Self-Respect Pride march.
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Marriage Equality: Letter to Tamil Nadu Government from LGBTQIA+ Communities
Points from LGBTQIA+ community discussion [Chennai April 23, 2023] on Marriage Equality shared with the Government of Tamil Nadu.
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Our Own Hurt Us the Most: Centering Familial Violence in the lives of Queer and Trans Persons in the Marriage Equality Debates
This report is about the families that are assigned to us and those that often are the biggest road blocks to being able to live the way we want to. The families that are supposed to be spaces of nurture, care and support, turn against their own children (often at very young ages), treat them with utter disregard and violence, and force them to conform to socially accepted ideas of what is “normal” without any regard to the individual’s dignity or personhood.
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Queer relationships and Natal Family Violence: WP 260 of 2023
Besides marriage equality, we are also asking the SC to remove the SMA notice period, recognise that those of us who choose to be / are single, or do not wish to marry, and also need the right to appoint person/s of choice who can act on our behalf when the need arises.
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Akkai Padmashali’s letter to MP Sushil Modi
Akkai Padmashali’s open letter to Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sushil Kumar Modi who has gone on record saying same-sex marriages are against Indian culture.
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Apartment-hunting as a father of trans experience
A man of trans-experience recounts his challenges in finding a home for himself and his two children.
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Free sessions with queer-affirmative counselling psychologists-in-training
Queer-affirmative counselling trainees from Christ University, Bangalore offer
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Orinam turns 18 on X’mas 2021
Orinam, founded Dec 25, 2003, is 18 as of X’ms 2021.
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For endorsement: Gender nonconforming/trans/non-binary students’ Open Statement to NCERT and Education Ministry
Endorse this open statement to NCERT from gender non-binary, gender non-conforming students, former students, and trans-queer groups.
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Sex Education: an initiative of Neelam Social
The first two Tamil educational videos on sex education by Neelam Social, released in July 2021, feature an Orinam volunteer speaking on sex, gender and sexuality.
