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In a first-of-its-kind initiative, city-based organisations Samapathik Trust and Bindu Queer Rights Foundation, in collaboration with Bharati Hospital and KEM Hospital, have prepared a manual for LGBTIQ inclusion in hospitals. The manual is the brainchild of Bindumadhav Khire, an LGBTIQ activist who has been working on health and rights issues of the LGBTIQ community for more than 17 years. “Hospitals will find this manual very useful to start work on LGBTIQ inclusion as it provides information on the basic issues that need to be kept in mind when fine-tuning policies for LGBTIQ inclusion,” said Khire.
I, Bindumadhav Khire, am an LGBTIQA rights activist with over two decades of work experience in Pune (Maharashtra, INDIA).
I was the founder and president of Samapathik Trust (Reg. E3662, Pune) and am currently the director of Bindu Queer Rights Foundation (a section 8 Company), which works on health and rights issues of the LGBTIQA community. From 2022, I am a member of the ‘Transgender Grievance Redress Board’ (Pune district).
I have worked on reading down IPC 377 (which criminalized adult, consensual same-sex intercourse);
I have been the organizer of the Annual LGBTIQA Pride Walk in Pune;
I have been the Director of ‘Advait’- Pune Queer International Film Festival;
I have been Director of ‘Mooknayak’ the first Marathi LGBTIQA Sahitya Sammelan;
I have been the Project Director of the MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) / TG /HIV/AIDS Targetted Intervention Project.
