Samalinga Website
Samalinga was a site "devoted to writings by South Asians on South Asian lesbi-gay themes," collected from posts to the Khush LGBTQ South Asian listserve. The site was accessible at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/5838 and was last updated on February 16, 1997.
Letter from Abnashi Ram
Letter from Abnashi Ram discussing his trip to different cities and sites across the United States, including Palo Alto, San Francisco, Yosemite Park, and others.
Trikone Tejas Website
Trikone Tejas was a "progressive coalition of queer and straight" people of pan-Asian heritage based in Austin, TX. The Trikone Tejas site was accessible at http://www.main.org/trikonetejas/ and was last updated in December 2002. The site included event descriptions, resources, coming out stories and a guestbook.
Interview with Tariq Abbas
Tariq Abbas was born in Aligarh, India on July 23, 1942. He was the second (and eldest son) of seven children, with four sisters (Roshan, Zehra, Faiza and Ghazala) and two brothers (Anis and Shams). His family migrated from Aligarh to the newly created state of Pakistan in late 1947. His family eventually settled in Lahore where he completed his primary schooling at the St.
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.
