Gaysi Family and the Ministry of Miniscule Minorities join hands for a neglected cause
It was in front of a packed room of over 400 people at TILT All Day café, Lower Parel, that 25-year-old Arti Thakur from Stop Acid Attacks spoke about her life since the acid attack she suffered two and a half years back.
Speaking about her first public talk, Thakur says, "This public talk has been a special experience for me. The people have been warm and cordial. I usually do not attend public events like this and address an audience. But I am glad that I came here." Rebuilding her life since the attack, this executive from an investment firm will be soon going in for her second round of surgery. She is thrilled that using the proceeds generated from this event, Stop Acid Attacks will be able to help several other victims like her.
An initiative by Gaysi Family, Dirty Talk is in its third year of existence and has been going from strength to strength. Started in 2008, the Gaysi Family has built a digital space where gay desis can safely share their stories of triumph and despair, thus offering hope to one another. Speaking on the seventh edition of Dirty Talk, Marine Drive-based member, Sherlock Homo, says, "With every event, we get to become more human. We understand more intricacies of the challenges that our fellow humans face. It extends our paradigm of emotive responses."
This was also the first time that Gaysi Family was looking beyond its own community to support and thus partnered with the Ministry of Miniscule Minorities to support Stop Acid Attacks by donating part of the event proceeds.
Founder of the Ministry, activist and child sexual abuse survivor, Harrish Iyer, said, "The Supreme Court, in its ruling, called us the homosexual community, the Ministry of Minority. And we have now joined hands to showcase the impact that this miniscule minority can bring about," says Iyer about the movement. "While the event is called Dirty Talk, it is politically incorrect. It is an oxymoron, if you look at all the good work that we do. Part of the proceeds from the event will go towards the treatment of acid attack survivors. Therefore, everyone who has participated has donated to the cause," he shared. Gaysi family not only promotes creativity through visual media as well as written and spoken word in their own community but in other communities too.
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