| Aravani Art Project | Aravani Art Project aims to embrace the Transgender Community by creating consciousness, well being through art, awareness & social participation. Website: https:// aravaniartproject.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aravaniartproject/ |
| Rainbow Voices Mumbai | Rainbow Voices Mumbai, India’s 1st LGBT choir aims at providing a platform to showcase musical talent in the community in the form of a ensemble of voices. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowvoicesmumbai |
| QGraphy | QGraphy is a platform for budding and accomplished photographers likewise; among queer individuals and their allies who share a passion for Photography. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qgraphygroup |
| Queer Adda | QueerAdda is a safe space for queer folks and allies to interact in a casual manner about various hobbies and interests. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qamumbai |
| The QUART Project | The QUART project aims at bringing gender equality through art. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thequartproject/ |
| Dancing Queens | India’s first trangender dance troupe. It is known for three words—celebration, talent and entertainment.Though the initiative of Dancing Queen has been established from past 7 years, the brand Dancing Queen has been established from last 3 years to raise pink money for the Queer Azaadi March initiative. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DancingQueensOfficial/ |
| Doon Dancing Angels | Uttarakhand’s first ever transgender person led dance group Doon Dancing Angels is supported by Prayojan Kalyaan Samiti. It aims to showcase the cultural skills of trangender community to the mainstream society. Read more |
| QueerKala | Bridging Communities Through Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/QueerKala Website: http://theqknit.lgbtq.co.in/queerkala/ |
| Queer Arts Movement – India | Queer Arts Movement, India (QAMI) hopes to bring the queer movement in the country to a larger mainstream; through performing arts and conscious dialogue. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QAMIndia/ |
| Prakriti Dance Academy | Prakriti dance academy is exclusively for the transgender community, imparting free classical dance lessons to the community members. It was inaugurated on 26 June 2018. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Prakriti-প্রকৃতি-427898537708711/ |
| Dhwayah Arts and Charitable Society | Dhwayah Transgenders arts and charitable society is formed inorder to motivate the talents of transgenders in kerala,we look forward to bring the uneducated friends in our society and thus give them a proper education,also encourage others arts activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dhwayah-arts-and-charitable-society-1863440683981951 |
| TRANS/HEARTS | TRANS/HEARTS is an art project that aims to reach out to 10,000 transgender people & teach them to express their untold life stories on canvas. Website: https://transhearts.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/transhearts/ |
| Gender Bender | Gender Bender is an annual festival that explores new and innovative ideas in the field of Gender. The festival invites applications for artistic projects, the shortlisted grantees receive a trigger grant and an opportunity to showcase their work at the festival. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandboxcollective/ |
| HHH – High Heel Hotties | The High Heel Hotties are India’s first all male dance troupe that performs in stilettos. Challenging gender norms and doing it with style. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highheelhotties |
| InsideOut Art Project | InsideOut Delhi is a volunteer LGBTQ+ organisation of Indian and ex-pat professionals and diplomats based in New Delhi, supporting health, human rights and the arts through cultural exchange. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsideOut-Art-Project-442599296236680/ Website: https://www.insideoutdelhi.com/ |
| The BackPack Travels | The BackPack Travels is a camping organization working in the field of Eco-tourism, wildlife, adventure and trekking holidays. They handle all types of clients ranging from casual tourists, children, schools, colleges to corporate companies, LGBT community members and special interest groups. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBackPackTravels/ |
| Rudra Polash Dance Academy | The first transgender dance group in West Bengal. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rudra-Polash-Dance-Academy-1464397870321544 |
| Spicy Girls | Hyderabad-based trans women band. Read more |
| Queer Reads Bangalore | This is a reading group, open to anyone, everyone, age, gender, race, orientation, class, caste no bar – and we shall focus on novels, shorts, novellas, plays, poems – all that is written, and written in the creative sphere – that are concerned with LGBT+ themes, people, communities and issues. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/103728579787781/ |
| Mumbai Queerati | It is a LGBTQ+ bookclub based in Mumbai. |
| Quilt | Quilt (Queering Li) is Orinam/s reading group, in existence since late 2012. Website: http://orinam.net/events/quilt/ |
| Dragvanti | Dragvanti is an online space hosting indian drag scenes articles, events, reviews etc. Website: http://www.dragvanti.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dragvanti/ |
| Kadak Collective | Kadak is a collective of South Asian womxn and queer folk who work with graphic story-telling of different kinds. Website: https://kadakcollective.com |
| Kinky Collective | A group which seeks to raise awareness about kink in society as well as to strengthen the BDSM community in India. Website: https://kinkycollective.com |
| Color Positive | It is a production house that deals with the taboo around LGBTQIA community in India by hosting plays, events and performances. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colorpositive |
| Pictures Against Prejudice | It is an Indian Art Exhibition held as a part of Queer Azaadi March (QAM), Mumbai’s Pride Week since 2011. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PicturesAgainstPrejudice/ |
| Mangaiyanavan | Sports should be inclusive and accessible to everyone, regardless of their gender identity. With this goal in mind, the organization has been formed to encourage and support transgender individuals to participate in sports. |
| ஐQueer | ஐQueer is a Queer collective, majorly focusing on Queer Arts, literature, Mental and Sexual health along with our rights through dialogues. Instagram |
| The Firefly Community | A community based in Hyderabad, which works for ‘Gender and lnclusion’, with an aim to raise awareness & create a safe space through art. Instagram |
| Indjapink | India’s first boutique travel organization exclusively “For Men Only”. Instagram |
| pinkvibgyor | A gay tour company providing gay-friendly tours for groups and individuals to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam &Cambodia. Facebook |
| pinkEscape | LGBT Travel Boutique, Indian Subcontinent. Twitter |
| Amhi Trutiyapanthi | A dhol-tasha pathak comprising 20 members, 15 in the group are transgender persons and the remaining five are women. Source |
| Sathya Sai Dance Academy | They teach Bharatanatyam dance to the transgender community. Instagram |
| Transgender Kala Troupe | It runs in Kanhangad Block Panchayat office and teaches cinematic, classical, folk and fusion dances from 10 am to 5 pm. Source |
| IndianVoguingScene | The 1st Ballroom culture platform of India. Instagram |
| India Queer Games | Organized by Ya_All, it is an event that uses sports and games to raise awareness and promote mainstreaming for the LGBTI community in Northeast India. Website |
| Queer Theatre Chennai | Queer Theatre Chennai,is started to producing plays and performances that amplify the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community. Instagram |
| Mudra Dance Group | It is formed under Mamtva Foundation Nagpur and comprises of 50 transgender persons to mark their presence in society, earn respect, and entertain the audience. Source |
| Ardhanareshwar Kala Abhivruddhi Trust | A Bengaluru-based transgender theatre group. Source |
| Queer Heritage Walk | It is conducted by Iqbal Dehalvi and includes three walks: Purani Dilli Queer Heritage Walk, which explores the queer history of the Mughal era and traverses the areas around Jama Masjid and Chandni Chowk; gay cruising spots in Delhi from the 1970s-90s to explore what the gay scene in the city was like before the advent of the Internet. They’ve also started a food walk series called Queering Food. Source |
| Bangalore Queer Tango | A safe-space for queer, trans*, genderfluid, NB folks, interested in learning Tango & celebrating queer joy. Instagram |
| QueerObjects | A fledgling practice-oriented art incubator: collab-driven, situated, short-circuiting existing modes of representation, expression, & visibility. Instagram |
| Currentmanagement | A modelling agency – of the queers, by the queers, for everybody – that seeks to be the pioneering agency to exclusively represent authentic and queer artists. Instagram Source |
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