Kannada Prasad pimp6/15/2023 ![]() During her time in Karnataka, she was involved in various campaigns for the rights and entitlements of sexual minorities and other marginalised communities. ![]() Revathi, now 45, spent nearly two decades in the city before she went back to her home in 2011 to take care of her aging father. “A woman I had known from Mumbai, who was like my mother, told me about the Hamam culture - a household where many ‘hijras’ reside together like a family - prevalent in the city and introduced me to one of them,” she adds. ![]() It was when Revathi moved to Bangalore, the nearest city to her home town Namakkal in Tamil Nadu that she came into her own. I could not find a job and depended on them, financially.” Although my parents accepted my sexuality privately, they discouraged me from dressing as a woman in public. ![]() Revathi, a vivacious transsexual woman, whose prose and poetry has been translated into Kannada, English and Hindi, shares: “I was originally a boy named Doraisamy. For sexual minorities, like lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) and others with altered sexual orientation or supposedly ‘unnatural’ partner preferences, this is a harsh reality.Ī. The home is sometimes the place where gender discrimination starts.
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