Project Bolo - Gauri Sawant - with English subtitles

PROJECT BOLO, meaning 'Project Speak Up', offers role models by documenting Indian LGBT persons -- their growing up, struggles, love, career, achievements and life.

Project Bolo's objective is to record Indian LGBT history, as well as inspire and empower the LGBT community in India, by presenting video interviews of LGBT persons and role models, who 'speak up' about their life and work.

This interview features GAURI SAWANT.

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GAURI SAWANT

From being a young shy boy in a conservative middle-class family to heading an organization of transgenders, Gauri has indeed come a long way, far ahead of even what she ever imagined. Her leadership qualities were spotted by Ashok Row Kavi when she was working with The Humsafar Trust. She was encouraged to set up her own community based organization Sakhi Char Chowgi, under which she now manages several projects that address both health issues of transgenders and provide livelihood opportunities. She is an aggressive fighter who knows how to handle both the police and the politicians. Though she is estranged from her own biological family, she has formed a happy family with a partner and a daughter.

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For more information and to read the transcript of the above interview please visit projectbolo.com/​gauri.htm

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Project Bolo is produced by The Humsafar Trust in association with Solaris Pictures and supported by UNDP (India)

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