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Desh Pardesh Festival Guide (1999)
Program for the ninth annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto, dated June 9-13, 1999. The program lists the scheduled workshops and events and includes a number of advertisements from festival sponsors.

Desh Pardesh Presents "Delicate Essence Cafe"
Flyer for an event hosted by the annual Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto; it describes a play written by Uma Kali Shakti entitled Delicate Essence Cafe. The play was performed on Wednesday, May 10, 1995.

A Triumph for South Asian Gays and Lesbians
Clipping from unknown newspaper entitled "A Triumph for South Asian Gays and Lesbians," describing Pride Utsav '95, a three-day conference in San Francisco for LGBTQ South Asians sponsored by Trikone. The article also mentions SALGA and Khush as having sponsored similar gatherings.

KhushDC in Washington City Paper
Article in the Washington City Paper mentioning KhushDC. Describes the organization's founding by Atul Garg and Yassir Islam in 1994 as a counterpart to SALGA and lists off its accomplishments and recurring events.

Khuli Zaban Website
Khuli Zaban, a South Asian Queer women's group, was founded by Leema Khan and Neena Hemmady in Chicago, IL. The group held its first meeting in October 1995.

Oral History Interview with YaliniDream
YaliniDream is an Ilankai Tamil American performing artist, facilitator, cultural practitioner, an organizer, a somatics practitioner, and a consultant who has experiences in justice and anti-oppression work globally.

South Asian Gay and Lesbian Group Marches for India
Clipping from the New York Times entitled "South Asian Gay and Lesbian Group Marches for India," circa 1994. The article describes members of SALGA marching in the 14th annual India Day Parade alongside members of Sakhi for South Asian Women, after having been barred from joining by the parade's organizers.

Urooj Arshad Oral History Interview
Urooj Arshad is a co-founder of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity and the first LGBTQ+ Muslim Retreat. In the oral history, Urooj describes growing up in Pakistan and Illinois, finding LGBTQ south asian community during college, and ongoing activism to resist islamophobia and queerphobia.

Content warning: Abuse

Oral History Interview with Bishakh Som
Bishakh Som is the author of the graphic novel Apsara Engine. In the oral history, Bishakh describes growing up in Ethiopia and New York, studying and practicing architecture, "hatching" as a trans person, and storytelling through illustration.

Oral History Interview with Mani Soma
Mani Soma performs as the drag artist KaMANI Sutra. In the oral history, Mani describes growing up in India, navigating a queer relationship as a teenager, helping to organize a flash mob at Osmania University, finding south asian LGBTQ community after immigrating to the DC area, and their experiences performing as a drag artist.

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