Chennai Pride – orinam

Welcome – வணக்கம்

The Chennai Rainbow Pride / Self Respect march is being held in 2022 after a two year hiatus that was a precautionary measure against the SARS-COV2 pandemic when many of the Pride volunteers were focused on relief work and resource mobilisation for this purpose.

View the Press Release in English and Tamil.

Please click here for the calendar of online events organised during June 2022, with the involvement in individuals and/or collectives that are part of the Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition.

The website chennaipride.net, hosted by Orinam, contains the press release, event reports, and media coverage, FAQ, and official calendar of events organized by the Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition and/or co-organized by its member organizations and collectives during Pride month. Archives dating back to 2010 may be accessed via the Wayback machine on archive.org here.

Press Releases from 2019 are posted here [CRP2019_PressRelease_English and CRP2019_PressRelease_Tamil] and the calendar as of May 31, 2019 is here.