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Khush: South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association

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Khush sponsored and organized the first ever International South Asian Gay Men's Conference, "Discovery โ€˜93". The three-day event covered a wide range of issues and attracted people from around the world. The conference also drew important media coverage (including articles in XTRA!, Star India,
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The conference was intended to provide participants with action plans to strengthen individual groups through networking and sharing personal experiences. Small workshops were facilitated to address issues such as self-esteem, racism, historic events, and identity, among others.
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The publication was intended to provide readers with a sense of what moves, interests, and affects the South Asian queer community. The goal was to promote understanding of South Asian culture and values within the overarching lesbian and gay South Asian communities.
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Khush was a founding party of SAIN (South Asian Interagency Network), later renamed CASSA (Coalition of Agencies Serving South Asians). SAIN/CASSA was an advocacy group aimed at improving social service delivery among South Asians in metropolitan
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Khush Khayal (Khush meaning "happy", and Khayal meaning a thought or opinion) was a quarterly publication, published from 1989 to 1994, that provided queer people of South Asian descent a medium for sharing thoughts and opinions within Canada.
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The conference brought together participants from various organizations in Toronto, including the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto, both of which provided some funding for the conference.
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The goal of the event was to increase awareness about South Asian cultures within South Asian and queer communities. The event was also intended to foster a supportive environment in Toronto for South Asian lesbians and gays.
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Khush was invited to participate in the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in 1992, which was formed to document, expose, and protest human rights and abuses against homosexual people worldwide.
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Khush was also asked to attend a conference held from December 27 to 31, 1994. The conference was sponsored by The Naz Project and entitled "Emerging Gay Identities: Implications for HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health".
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The National Conference of Indian Activists was held on May 23 to 24, 1992, and was intended to be a workshop to discuss important issues in relation to the South Asian queer community. These issues included the
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Based on the success of "Salaam! Toronto", the first "Desh Pardesh" was organized and became an annual festival dedicated to exploring the art, culture and politics of diasporic South Asians living in the
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Khush founded SAAC (South Asian AIDS Coalition) in partnership with South Asian Lesbians, later renamed ASAP (Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention). It was the first initiative in Canada to address
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The meeting was held to assess the need for Khush to exist, to prioritize certain needs, determine the organizational structure, services, time, skills, and money required to operate the organization.
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in Canada. The newsletter was volunteer-driven with both national and international distribution. A monthly community calendar of events, "Chhota Khayal" was also produced, but discontinued in 1993.
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India Abroad, NOW Magazine, India Currents and the Toronto Star),It increased Khush's public visibility and further encouraged South Asian gay men to seek support and affirmation from Khush.
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Multiple groups were invited to participate and set up, decorate, and staff their own tables. These groups included the South Asian Women's Group, the Riverdale Immigrant Women's Centre,
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The Khayal Entertainment Guide was a comprehensive compilation of South Asian TV and radio programming that was started by Khush in 1993 and distributed to both members and non-members.
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The Naz Project established a charitable trust in India that aimed to provide help and resources in South Asia. Khush was asked to provide financial support for the organization.
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Desh Pardesh strives to forge links among local South Asian artists and cultural producers in Ontario as well as with their counterparts across Canada and throughout the West.
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The conference was structured around a series of workshops, panels and cultural programs that deal with issues that are important to lesbian and gay people of colour such as
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dance as part of a major fund-raising drive for the Euclid Theatre. Raised $ 500 to buy a seat. The Euclid Theatre later became the primary venue for Desh Pardesh.
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organization that recognizes the historical, geographical, linguistic, and religious diversity within the South Asian community. Desh is opposed to all forms of
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Salaam Toronto was the name of a fair geared towards South Asian men and women, held from 1988 to 1993. It was formed and facilitated under Khush's direction.
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Khush was invited to a meeting between lesbian and gay community organizations and members of the Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations.
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and gay writers, as well as a report on HIV/AIDS in South Asia. The event was held at the 519 and was attended by more than 60 people of diverse backgrounds.
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As part of the Khush media-outreach strategy, South Asian Newsweek featured a 20-minute segment profiling South Asian lesbian and gay lifestyles and issues.
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Chhota Khayal was a newsletter similar to Khush Khayal, but was in circulation for only two years. It was published three times a year, from 1992 to 1994.
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The Naz Project was founded in 1991 in London. It established itself in New Delhi, India, via an accompanying group called the Naz Foundation, in 1996.
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Desh Pardesh works in concert with other communities, artists, and activists of colour with compatible objectives to make links between South Asian,
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The organization operated from 1987 and 1998, and had an active web presence since the early 1990s. As asserted by Sandip Roy, "Khush constructed a "
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Khush also sought to address the "othering" and exclusion of queer South Asians within scholarly work and the media, in terms of access, contacts,
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The festival was funded by academic institutions, media and film boards, and government-sponsored grants for lesbian and gay organizations.
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Khush members organized "Loving Colours", a community conversation about lesbian and gay relationships, attended by South Asian lesbian,
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process, visibility, political activism, racism, the AIDS crisis in India, and HIV and immigration issues in the U.S., among others.
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The conference involved a series of small, focused workshops as well as plenary sessions for sharing information among participants.
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The Khush retreats were held as a forum to examine and discuss the goals and objectives of Khush for the prior and following years.
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Desh Pardesh (meaning "home away from home") was a "multidisciplinary arts festival functioning as a venue for underrepresented and
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Khush, along with Gay Asians of Toronto, coordinated "Unity Among Asians", the first Asian gay and lesbian conference to be held in
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Participants were encouraged to express themselves through writing, poetry, performing arts, film, photography, dancing, etc.
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Discovery '93 was the first international conference for South Asian gay men held in 1993 by Khush to address issues such as
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Khush members volunteered to help raise funds for the Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal. This effort has continued since then.
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of news, views, and reviews called Avec Pyar (meaning "with love"). Each issue was published during the following years:
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Fernandez, Sharon (2006-03-30). "More Than an Arts Festival: Communities, Resistance, and the Story of Desh Pardesh".
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Khush attended Pride during the years of 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, and 1998, until Khush disbanded.
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A two-day, out of town, brainstorming session was held to articulate goals and set up the administrative structure.
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issues in South Asian communities. Several Khush members have served on the Board of Directors of ASAP since then.
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Mitra, Rahul; Gajjala, Radhika (2008-10-01). "Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas A Dialogic Encounter".
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Khush was invited to the 5th International Lesbian and Gay People of Colour Conference, the theme of which was "
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Burkhart, Geoffrey (2003-09-01). "Collective and Individual Identities: South Asian Gay Men in North America".
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To support people who sought political asylum in other nations due to persecution for their sexual orientation
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The second retreat was held from September 29 to October 1 of 1989, at Taoist Tai Chi Centre, in Orangeville.
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Panels were also held to address issues such as living with AIDS, anti-racist organizing, the experience of
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men and women whose goal was to promote a better understanding of South Asian culture and values within the
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Khush members in collaboration with CASSA (Coalition of Agencies Serving South Asians), founded "Ahimsa" (
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South Asian Gay Association (SAGA) founded by two South Asian gay men, one of whom was Prabha Khosla.
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Khush was invited to the Unity Among Asians Conference, which was held on August 19 to 21, 1988.
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Desh Pardesh is lesbian and gay positive, feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist and anti caste/
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To write reports documenting the international human rights situation for lesbians and gay men
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The event encouraged South Asian dancers, writers, artists, and poets to express their work.
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A grant was awarded by the Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal to help with outreach efforts.
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approach within the politics of identity, race, sexuality, gender, class and ethnicity.
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groups within the South Asian diasporic community of Toronto". It was a queer positive,
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gay men and lesbians online, during a time when offline or in-person contact between
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Khush has also been involved and associated with the following organizations:
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Singh, K. (1992, April 5). National Conference of Indian Activists . Box 4.
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To work in the arena of gender constructions, sexualities and sexual health
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Grassroots: Fifth International Lesbian and Gay People of Colour Conference
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The first retreat was held from October 1 to 2 of 1988, at Skitch Cottage.
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harassment and job firings within both a Western and South Asian context.
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organization that operated from 1989 to 2001, and was sponsored by Khush.
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Khush: South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (Khush meaning "happy")
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Also known as Renewal Day, Khush Rethink was held on March 29, 1998.
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South Asian, gay and lesbian cultures and identities. It was held at
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Srinivasan, B. (1993). South Asian gays meet to strategize . Box 2.
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Khush established a basic infrastructure to ensure increased public
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Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights In Ontario (CLRGO) (1989โ€“1990)
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To develop education and prevention programmes on sexual health
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At this meeting, it was decided that Khush would be shut down.
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Coalition of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) (1991โ€“1995)
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South Asian Lesbian and Gay History Archiving Project (1994)
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and other human rights organizations for international action
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To provide support programmes for those affected by HIV/AIDS
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South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) (1992โ€“1993)
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Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAP) (1991โ€“1996)
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Ameeriar, Lalaie (2012-09-01). "The Sanitized Sensorium".
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Rau, K. (1993). South Asian men's Discovery '93 . Box 2.
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South Asian Inter-Agency Network (SAIN) (1989, 1990โ€“1992)
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Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations
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The information provided by Khush was subsequently used:
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Khush organized "Salaam! Toronto", a program celebrating
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Shakti: South Asian Lesbian and Gay Network (1989โ€“1991)
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To provide anonymous counselling and testing facilities
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closed down as a result of a financial crisis in 2001.
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Each volume was published during the following years:
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International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
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Membership expanded, and included both men and women.
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The group's name was subsequently changed to Khush.
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