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Invitations:
Invite people to add history [Initial basis for this was as told by DesiQ participants (2006, 2013)]

Research:
Satrang - No More Denial
Task Force - Living in the Margins
NQAPIA - Queer Asian Compass

Organizations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trikone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SALGA_NYC

References: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, (etc.)
http://orinam.net/resources-for/lgbt/magazines-and-journals/ LGBT Culture in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_culture_in_India
Gay Scene http://saathii.org/gensex/calcutta/lgbthistory-arch.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India
LGBT Rights in Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Pakistan
History of Homosexuality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_homosexuality
LGBT History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history
http://www.rungh.org/issues/Rungh_v1_n1-2.pdf
http://www.rungh.org/issues/Rungh_v2_n3.pdf
http://www.rungh.org/issues/Rungh_v3_n3.pdf
Q & A: Queer in Asian America - http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9781566396394
http://www.sawnet.org/khush/
References to Asian Lesbians of Vancouver and Monsoon https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/bitstream/handle/1828/3125/Chris%20Fox%20Dissertation%20Queer%20Outburst%20National.pdf?sequence=1
http://saathii.org/gensex/calcutta/lgbthistory-arch.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=1G_dVlJ2KhcC&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=hijra+conference+bhopal&source=bl&ots=4L4HoK75fG&sig=lDrVEmTRnyq2Oqw-DefVfRhql6E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=swk-U4SjJ-u_sQTUtYLoDg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hijra%20conference%20bhopal&f=false http://indianlgbthealth.info/Authors/manual_5.html http://www.cla.purdue.edu/WAAW/corinne/Wilkinson.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayan_Shah http://www.clga.ca/Material/PeriodicalsLGBT/inven/oov/oovint.htm Queer and Trans http://www.browncanada.com/content.php?pg=24&pid=4 http://www.sohoroadtothepunjab.org/downloads/Drum%20N%20Dhol%20%20British%20Bhangra%20Music%20and%20Diasporic%20South%20Asian%20Identity%20Formation.pdf https://uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/culcom/programmet/ansatte/filer/fagerlid-thesis.pdf http://sadaa.co.uk/studio/files/Dissident-sounds-mapping-British-Asian-Music.pdf Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World By Ketu H. Katrak http://books.google.com/books?id=rHFf61fg4goC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=toronto+Khush+Khayal&source=bl&ots=N2J5LzZaEs&sig=LxBbSlVt_6Pktc7AX8V3_6jWkAA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bYE-U8z8C5fJsQTPu4DQBA&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=toronto%20Khush%20Khayal&f=false http://www.qrd.org/qrd/orgs/TRIKONE/south.asian.glb.resources http://globalqueerdesi.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/bibliography-until-1995/ http://www.littleindia.com/life/1557-here-comes-the-bride-and-the-bride.html To Render Real the Imagined: An Ethnographic History of Lesbian Community in India, Naisargi N. Dave. Signs Vol. 35, No. 3 (Spring 2010), pp. 595-619. Published by: The University of Chicago Press. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/648514 The Well of Homeliness: South Asian Queers in Britain. Ashley Tellis. ~mid-1990s. Saathi Library Catalog http://www.saathii.org/gensex/calcutta/09-librarycatalogue-latest-20sep2009.pdf http://www.sawnet.org/khush/ http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/api_living_in_margins_r.pdf http://triceratops.brynmawr.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10066/8410/Wijeyeratne_thesis_2012.pdf?sequence=1 http://books.google.com/books?id=gjcUFK4RZNcC&pg=PA171&dq=urvashi+vaid+gay+lesbian+rights&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ol0_U-z2GKjJsQSsq4HgBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=urvashi%20vaid%20gay%20lesbian%20rights&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=zsA5LzhwbyAC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22South+Asian+AIDS+Coalition%22&source=bl&ots=-z_fkT5DU9&sig=exiPARYS0BSZIpu8BYQnEhncrX0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M18_U5L0GsSxsATP0oDYDg&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22South%20Asian%20AIDS%20Coalition%22&f=false Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal ... By Gopika Solanki

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