Sangama

Founded in 1999. Registered as a society (Reg. No. 242/2001-02, under Karnataka Societies Registration Act. 1960) on June 22nd, 2001 in Bangalore with 11 governing body members.

Bangalore like many other cities in India has very limited spaces where sexuality minorities can meet/help/work with each other and acquire information about sexual orientation/gender identity. Sangama started in this context in August 1999 to work for sexuality minorities' rights with information and education. Its initial funding was through a two-year individual fellowship from MacArthur Foundation to Elavarthi Manohar who presently acts as the Program Coordinator of Sangama.

It soon developed into a full-fledged documentation/drop-in/resource/ crisis intervention centre. It also emerged as a strong activist space working openly in Bangalore on sexuality minorities' issues and rights.

Sangama is a bilingual organisation, extensively documenting issues of sexuality and sexuality minorities' in Kannada and English.