The South Asian Lesbian & Gay Association of New York City (SALGA) serves to promote awareness, tolerance, acceptance, empowerment and safe spaces for sexual minorities and people of all gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian.
Our mission is to enable community members to establish cultural visibility and take a stand against oppression and discrimination in all its forms. We pledge to encourage leadership development, provide multi-generational support, work towards immigration advocacy, address health issues such as HIV / AIDS, and foster political involvement in the interest of creating a more tolerant society.
Posted: March 19th, 2010 | Author: lkalasapudi | Filed under: Blog, Events, News | Tags: art, celebration, cool, gender non conforming, history, mickalene thomas, moma, PS 1, trans, women, women's history month | No Comments »
SALGA Women/Trans/Gender Nonconforming People Celebrate Women’s History Month Together!
Date: Saturday, March 27th
Time: 2:00 PM
Place : P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
Why: Because the installation by the artist Mickalene Thomas sounds very cool!
Let’s meet outside P.S. 1 at 2.00 PM on Saturday, March 27th. Please email priyanka@salganyc.org if you are interested in a free ticket. The first 20 people to respond will have their ticket paid for by SALGA. The donation is otherwise $5. We’ll get coffee after viewing the installation!
Posted: May 6th, 2009 | Author: Piali | Filed under: Blog, Events | Tags: brunch, dyke, Lesbian, march, pride, women | No Comments »
Saturday, June 27th
Brunch - 1:30pm @ Dhaba (108 Lexington Ave. between 27th and 28th street)
March - 5pm @ Bryant Park (42nd St. and 5th Ave.)
Come march with SALGA dykes on June 27th. March starts at 5 p.m. sharp at Bryant Park. Please arrive by 4:45 at the latest. We will meet on the steps at Bryant Park. Bring posters, noisemakers, hula hoops.
Please also join us for a delicious $9.95 lunch at Dhaba (108 Lexington Ave between 27th and 28th Street) starting at 1:30 p.m. Please be prompt as the restaurant closes at 3pm. RSVPs are greatly appreciated. We look forward to seeing you!
The Dyke March was started in 1993 by the Lesbian Avengers in Washington, D.C. Dyke Marches now take place all over the world. The Dyke March is a protest march not a parade. We march in solidarity with all lesbians: those who are out and those who cannot be out, those who are loud and those who have been silenced. We will march until every lesbian in every corner of the world can raise her head high and be proud.
Posted: April 9th, 2009 | Author: Piali | Filed under: Blog | Tags: families, family, GLBT, khushdc, LBT, Lesbian, pflag, queer, women | No Comments »
Khush Klatch | by Yusef Najafi in Metro Weekly (Washington DC) | Published on April 9, 2009
Link to article
There are few who could claim to have explored the relationships between GLBT South Asians and their parents as deeply as Sonali Gulati. As a documentary filmmaker, Gulati has spent much of the past five years doing just that for a film she hopes to finish later this year, Out & About.
With that theme in mind, Gulati has helped to organize an April 11 event for KhushDC, the metro area’s ‘’social, support and political group” for GLBT South Asians, of which she is a board member. ”Loving Ties: Honoring South Asian Queer Women’s Families” will be an evening of conversation, dinner and honoring parents who have supported their lesbian, bisexual and transgender daughters, commemorating March as Women’s History Month.
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