Sangama

Please note that this list is only a sampling of all the work accomplished by Sangama

Love and let love
The Telegraph
Kolkota
05/03/2006

Till 1998, Bangalore had two voluntary organisations working with people of alternate sexuality. Now there are a dozen such organisations. And each one has grown in size, says Vinay Chandran, executive director, Swabhava, a city-based NGO working with the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) community. Set up in 1999, Swabhava's membership has grown five times in five years, claims Chandran. (more)

The state of the union
The Hindu, Bangalore
30/01/2006

A far greater challenge that still blocks this path is Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises all forms of sexual orientation that don't conform to the normative heterosexist ideal. According to Elavarthi Manohar, who works with Sangama, a sexuality minorities' rights group, the challenges multiply for working-class minorities because they do not possess safe spaces that those of the middle or upper middle class have access to. (more)

Protest in Bangalore, India
International Lesbian and Gay Association
22/07/2004

Sangama, a sexuality minorities' rights organization in Bangalore, India held a massive protest July 2, 2004 for Kokila who was tortured and sexually assaulted by Police personnel in Bangalore.(more)