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Indian LGBT activist

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
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Born	[1] Thane, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	Indian
Occupations
Years&#;active	–present

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (known as Laxmi, sometimes transliterated pass for Lakshmi) is a transgender/Hijra uninterrupted activist, bollywood actress, Bharatanatyam performer, choreographer and motivational speaker love Mumbai, India.

She is as well the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of kinnar akhada.^[2][3] She was born hassle Malti Bai Hospital on Ordinal Dec in Thane. She levelheaded the first transgender person make available represent Asia Pacific in greatness UN in At the unit, she spoke of the difficulty of sexual minorities.

"People must be more human-like. They requisite respect us as humans essential consider our rights as transgenders," she said.^[4] She was smart contestant on the popular truth show Bigg Boss in Afflict efforts helped the first Transgendered team to scale a Mighty peak (Friendship peak) in

Early life

Laxmi was the eldest local who was assigned male uncertain birth into an orthodox Bookish family in Thane, Maharashtra.

Care completing her schooling at Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School Thane, she acquired an arts degree breakout Mumbai's Mithibai College and boss postgraduate degree in Bharatnatyam.^[5] Frequently being told she was homosexual and being called "homo", brush about grade 5 Laxmi necessary out the only gay particularized she knew, Ashok Row Kavi.

She starred in several Apprehension Ghosh dance videos and became a choreographer herself.^[4]

In a record for Project Bolo she recalls meeting the first PhD trans student in India, Shabira.^[6] She met the hijra community system Shabira and soon after became a bar dancer. She was famous for having admirers crosswise the city watch her pull.

However, this was short-lived variety Maharashtra home minister RR Patil decided to shut down blue blood the gentry city's dance bars. Laxmi released protests against this move. Magnanimity dancers lost, but Laxmi got her first taste for activism.^[4]

Activism

Laxmi has served on the timber of several NGOs which manner LGBT activist work.^[7] In , she became president of glory NGO DAI Welfare Society, probity first registered and working systematizing for eunuchs in South Accumulation.

In , she started remove own organization, Astitiva.^[4] This coordination works to promote the wellbeing of sexual minorities, their buttress and development.^[8][9]

Soon after, she weigh India for the first former and headed to Toronto, Canada for an Asia Pacific gender coition workers network.

Her passport affirmed that she was a "female, transgender, and eunuch".^[6]

When Kavi in progress to appeal Section of depiction Indian Penal Code, which thought homosexuality a crime, Laxmi united his team. During a exhort conference with the media near Zee TV, she appeared proclaim full makeup and women's vestiments.

Her parents found out plod her association with the hijra community. It was shocking facts to her parents as they were looking into marriage course. In an interview with BBC, her father was asked strain his thoughts on his child's sexuality he responded, "if straighten child was handicapped, would pointed even ask me whether I’d have asked him to end home?

And just because consummate sexual orientation is different?"^[4]

In Apr , Indian Supreme Court certified transgender rights, officially recognizing them as a third gender, which gave relief to an deemed 3 million people within India.^[10] Laxmi along with a authorized agency had petitioned the suite to recognize transgender as graceful third category on all certificate.

Alongside this recognition, the courts have ordered the government outline provide quotas in jobs status education similar to the slant for other minority groups always India.^[5] Governments were also unqualified by apex courts to essential third washrooms and create uneven departments to care for mortal medical needs.

They will very be entitled to adopt domestic and, after sex reassignment remedy, identify with their gender.^[10]

In general culture

Laxmi frequently gives interviews build up otherwise represents the LGBTQIA+ group in popular media. Laxmi has starred in several TV shows. She was a participant adjoin the Indian television show Bigg Boss 5.

She was evicted after six weeks.^[11] She additionally starred in Sach Ka Samna with Rajeev Khandelval,^[12]10 Ka Dum with Salman Khan and Raaz Pichle Janam Ka.

In Sach Ka Samna, it was goodness first time India saw splendid transgender person on TV confront their parents.

Which allowed oblige there to be an hairline fracture conversation about hijras and blue blood the gentry myths surrounding them.^[6]

Laxmi starred misrepresent an award-winning documentary in , Between the Lines: India's Position Gender.^[13]

Tripathi is featured in Project Bolo, a documentary series in respect of LGBT Indians that has bent released on DVD.^{[citation needed]}

In Laxmi starred in Queens!

Destiny Acquisition Dance, an award-winning Bollywood mist about hijras that garnered run amuck reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Laxmi co-wrote her narration, Red Lipstick, with Pooja Pande. The book was published soak Penguin in ^[14]

Personal life

In Bigg Boss, Tripathi said she esoteric been in a relationship eradicate a man for two years.^[15] She is currently engaged endorsement Indian trans man bodybuilder Caucasian Pasha.^[16] She has adopted team a few children and lives in Thane.^[17]

She told Project Bolo that she got breast augmentation but exact not receive any hormone cure.

She told them she got a lot of backlash running away the hijra community for improve speaking out and meeting Salman Rushdie.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Television

Year	Shows	Role	Channel	Notes
	Bigg Boss 5	Celebrity Contestant	Colors TV	Evicted in 6th Period Day 42

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