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Resources

Access to research and resource pools created by credible organisations helps one gain a better understanding of the rainbow community. This section will feature some of the work done by organisations such as Mariwala Health Initiative, Point of View, The News Minute and Queer Chennai Chronicles. It also lists some of the organisations across the country working in the field that have agreed to share their contact details on this website.
MHI is a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on making mental health accessible to marginalized persons and communities. They are dedicated to bringing together several mental health services to a wider audience, through funding, dialogue, advocacy and destigmatisation.
Here are some of MHI’s resources:
Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP)
This tab is a one-stop resource for LGBTQ+ mental health. It consists of over a 100 resources, including articles, videos, infographics and blogs. It was curated by queer-trans folks and our cohort of QACP alumni for the LGBTQ+ community, mental health practitioners, allies, psychology students.
List of Queer Affirmative Mental Health Practitioners
These MHPs from all over India have attended and completed MHI’s Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice course to build their capacity to work with the LGBTQ+ community from an anti-oppressive approach. They have private practices and/or are attached to organisations. They are not employed by MHI in any capacity. For those from the LGBTQ+ community, there is also a list of peer supporters and queer-trans collectives listed in the same sheet.
(©Mariwala Health Initiative 2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license)

Point of View, founded as a non-profit in Mumbai in 1996, uses words, images, art, culture, and media to change headspace around gender. It empowers women, girls, and gender and sexual minorities to shape and inhabit digital spaces.

Here are some of their publications and resources:

Skin Stories

Hacking Digital Gender Norms

Free To Be Mobile

InQlusive Newsrooms is a collaboration between The News Minute and Queer Chennai Chronicles.

Organisations

(Organisations that have agreed to list with us)

MARIWALA HEALTH INITIATIVE (MHI) - Mumbai, Maharashtra

POINT OF VIEW - Mumbai, Maharashtra

TAPISH Foundation - Madhya Pradesh

TAPISH (Transperson Association For Promoting Inclusion, Safety And Harmony) Foundation

The Foundation works toward creating a safe, inclusive, and harmonious environment for trans youth by creating awareness, sensitising regional government bodies and private stakeholders such as healthcare and education institutions, and supporting youth to build a rural trans youth movement.

Contact details:

Mobile: +91-7415356507

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tapishfoundation/home

The Humsafar Trust (HST) -Mumbai, Maharashtra

Sappho for Equality - Kolkata, West Bengal

ONDEDE - Karnataka

DHISHA - Kerala

SAHAYATRIKA - Kerala

SWEEKAR - Mumbai, Maharashtra

AKAM FOUNDATION - Assam

NAZ FOUNDATION- Delhi

SAHODARAN-Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Sahodaran is the first and largest Community Based Organization (CBO) in Chennai run by and for MSM (Men who have Sex with Men). Since 1998, Sahodaran has worked with MSM from low-income backgrounds, combining HIV/AIDS prevention and care services with social support, counselling, and crisis intervention. We envision a world where all sexual minorities can achieve their full potential and safely access their social entitlements, without fear of violence or stigma.

    Contact details:

    Address: No. 27, New no.75, 3rd St Extn, Railway colony, Aminjikarai, Chennai-600029

    Phone number:044-23740486

    Mobile number: +91 9841865423

    Email: [email protected]

    Website: www.sahodaran.org

    Instagram: @sahodaran_chennai

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100072209722219

SAHODARI FOUNDATION - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

THOZHI - Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Trans Rights Now Collective

PeriFerry - Bangaluru, Karnataka

TamilNadu LGBTIQ Movement - Chennai , Tamil Nadu