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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.
Shankar Ganesh is the first person from the LGBT community to be featured on ‘I am Madras’, a Facebook e-community.
Vinodhan follows up on his post on living with depression by sharing how he copes with it.
Purush comes out to his parents, wife, close relatives and friends through this letter.
Living Smile Vidya, an actor, writer, artist and Chennai-based transwoman, has been awarded a scholarship by the Charles Wallace India Trust to pursue theatre in the UK.
I lived in Chennai, India, for 23 years. I’ve never been in the closet. Well, not really. I’ve always been butch — short hair, boys’ clothes, a gentleman’s manner, and of course, a way with the ladies. But in India, not being in the closet doesn’t necessarily mean being out of it.
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.