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Article: Interview with Indian community welfare organization on confronting HIV and AIDS in south India.(Making Waves)(human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
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- New Internationalist
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- July 1, 2008
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A baby-faced man swaggers into our interview room. His eyes are decked in black kohl; his finely manicured fingernails are painted crimson and his lips a shade of rouge. His mannerisms are delicately feminine and his voice high-pitched.
You cannot overlook Satheesh Lalita. He flaunts his homosexuality like a badge of honour. While this may be more accepted in Western society, Satheesh, 32 (pictured), is from Chennai, in south India, renowned as being even more orthodox than northern cities such as Delhi or Mumbai. 'My "coming out" process was very, very difficult. My family and friends--everyone hated me for being a homousexual,' Satheesh says. 'But in these last ...