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.
Similar Posts
Clap: for July 2, 2010
Raise your hands and clap today Friends, fellow queers, comrades,…
Narthaki Nataraj: India’s first trans Padma awardee
Orinam felicitates Dr. Narthaki Nataraj, India’s first transgender woman to receive a Padma Shri award.
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.
Out, Proud and Liberated: Reflections of a former officer in the Indian Army
Major J. Suresh (ret’d) reflects on his coming out journey, motivated by General Rawat’s homophobic statements around gay people in the Indian Army.
Statement on Ms. Koovagam and Vedanta
Statement by A. Mangai, Srijith Sundaram and A. Revathi (April 17, 2019)
Justice for Tara : How Many Deaths Do We Need to Resist Police Brutality?
While we express our agitation and resistance towards acts of violence like Tara’s death, we must also resist and challenge the institutional violence that is perpetuated everyday.
Congratulations to the whole team for this great look and awesome resources !!! I am so proud of you all !
I m loving it 🙂
looks cool and hep
very refreshing and i love the color palette 🙂
Nice work Folks….love the make over!!