Sangama in Press

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)

* Sonu & Chitra Wedding in Baduku Katakabandi Part 1

Gay sex 'unnatural': Has Azad got it wrong?

*Target Gay Suvarna News Live Programme (This Programme against Gulabhi Nabhi Azad Statement)

Homosexuality: Can law change mindsets?

TV9 - " GAYS STRIKES" AGAINST CENTRAL HEALTH MINISTER GHULAM NABI AZAD

HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DISEASE

Tv9 - Gay activists demand Azad's resignation

1) Akkai on AIR Vidyamaana Programme

2) Transgender RJ Priyanka on AIR Kakambi Programme

3) KSWU secretory on Kakambi Programme

4) KSWU Veena on AIR Bangalore Kakambi Programme

5) Revathi and Akkai on AIR Indina vidyamaana Programme

6) Transgender Chandini and Kalpana(Akkai) on AIR Kakambi Programme

7) Transgender Chandini Radio Drama on AIR Programme

8) First Transgender contest BBMP Election in south india

9) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on Samaya News

9) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on DD1

10) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on Tv9 Live

11) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on Suvarna news

12) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on udaya news

13) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on Kasturi

14) Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa announcing Transgender Govt Order Copy on Samaya Tv

15) High Court Judgment Live Programme on Samaya News

16) Suvarna News Mahayudda Part 1

17) Suvarna News Mahayudda Part 2

18) Arundathi Nag Talking about BC Commission

19) Transgenders Education Reservation Live onTv9 With Shobha Karandlaje

20)Transgender Veena contesting on BBMP Election Bangalore Part 1

21) Transgender Veena contesting on BBMP Election Bangalore Part 2

22) Kurukshetra programme Part 1

23) Kurukshetra programme Part 2