COLLECTIONS
The legal battle to decriminalise homosexuality in India began with ABVA (AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan) filing a petition which challenged the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in the High Court of Delhi in 1994. Sec 377 IPC, India’s sodomy law, stated…
Sangama is an organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of working class queer communities, sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). Manohar Elavarthi established Sangama in Bangalore in 1999 when he was bestowed the MacArthur Fellowship…
T. Jayashree is an independent filmmaker based in Bangalore. She has written, produced and directed for international television, radio, feature and documentary film. Co-founder of the QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, her work has focused on the intersection between Gender, Sexuality, Law and Public Health…
Arvind Narrain is a Bangalore based lawyer-activist who has influenced the topography of human rights lawyering in the city. An alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, and the University of Warwick, Arvind is a founding-member of the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) in Bangalore…
Ivan John is a queer-identified person, an atheist, with an affection for the Left ideology, a passion for simple living, out-of-the-box thinking, musician (pianist) and educator. He has been been teaching Sociology in Sophia Junior College (i.e. Standards XI and XII) since 1993…
Maya Sharma and Indra Pathak are feminist, queer, grassroots activists based in Vadodara, Gujarat. Maya, a journalist, has a history of working with trade unions and with the autonomous women’s movement before entering the queer movement….
‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’
– Milan Kundera