Battling Stigma and Discrimination, Malaiyaga Pride Cuts a Pioneering Path - Groundviews

Battling Stigma and Discrimination, Malaiyaga Pride Cuts a Pioneering Path - Groundviews

Photo courtesy of Dimithri Wijesinghe June is Pride Month It started with a simple but powerful feeling that we, as queer people from the Malaiyaga community, deserve to be seen and celebrated in our own home. So many Pride events happen in cities or closed spaces, far removed from our realities. But what about us? What about the queer people who grew up in the tea plantations, who speak Tamil with a Malaiyagam accent, who carry generations of s…