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Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Motivational Speaker - Profile
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is an Indian transgender rights activist, dancer and television star. She is among the most influential figures in India’s LGBTQ community. Born biologically male, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi chose to be transformed into Laxmi.
Laxmi is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008. At the assembly, Laxmi spoke of the plight of sexual minorities. Laxmi was a contestant on the popular reality show Bigg Boss in 2011. Her efforts helped the first Transgender team to scale a Himalayan peak (Friendship peak) in 2020.
Laxmi has served on the boards of several NGOs which conduct LGBT activist work. In 2002 she became president of the NGO DAI Welfare Society, the first registered and working organization for eunuchs in South Asia. In 2007 she started her own organization, Astitiva. This organization works to promote the welfare of sexual minorities, their support and development. Awarded 'Indian of the Year 2017.
Tripathi graduated with an arts degree from Mumbai’s Mithibai College and a postgraduate degree in Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance that often expresses religious and spiritual themes. After starring in several dance videos directed by Ken Ghosh, an Indian director and producer, Laxmi took up choreography and became a well-known dancer in Maharashtra. When the state shuttered its dance bars, Laxmi organized protests against the decision.
During India’s HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Laxmi was one of the first activists to demand that the national anti-AIDS program include hijras as a separate category. She attended the 2006 World AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, and participated in HIV/AIDS activism at other international forums. In 2008 she became the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the United Nations, where she spoke of the plight of sexual minorities around the world, particularly in India.
In 2014, thanks to Laxmi’s successful petition, the Indian Supreme Court ruled to officially recognize a third gender. The landmark decision paved the way for transgender people to receive government benefits and for India’s decriminalization of same-sex relationships in 2018. In the wake of her Supreme Court victory, Tripathi formed the nonprofit Astitva Trust, Asia's first transgender organization, and established a Hindu hijra religious order, the Kinnar Akhara.
Laxmi was featured in the 2005 documentary “Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender.” In 2011 she starred in the celebrity edition of the Indian reality television series “Big Boss” and in “Queens! Destiny of Dance,” an acclaimed Bollywood film about hijras. In 2012 Laxmi published her autobiography, “Me Hijra, Me Laxmi.”
In 2017 at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Laxmi received the Rainbow Warrior Award. She received the Sree Narayana Guru Award for social service the same year.
To book Laxmi Narayan Tripathi as the Motivational speaker for your event simply complete the online form. For more information regarding any of the Motivational Speakers on our roster contact Simply Life India Speakers Bureau directly on: +91 8652835000 or speakers@simplylifeindia.com
Laxmi is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008. At the assembly, Laxmi spoke of the plight of sexual minorities. Laxmi was a contestant on the popular reality show Bigg Boss in 2011. Her efforts helped the first Transgender team to scale a Himalayan peak (Friendship peak) in 2020.
Laxmi has served on the boards of several NGOs which conduct LGBT activist work. In 2002 she became president of the NGO DAI Welfare Society, the first registered and working organization for eunuchs in South Asia. In 2007 she started her own organization, Astitiva. This organization works to promote the welfare of sexual minorities, their support and development. Awarded 'Indian of the Year 2017.
Tripathi graduated with an arts degree from Mumbai’s Mithibai College and a postgraduate degree in Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance that often expresses religious and spiritual themes. After starring in several dance videos directed by Ken Ghosh, an Indian director and producer, Laxmi took up choreography and became a well-known dancer in Maharashtra. When the state shuttered its dance bars, Laxmi organized protests against the decision.
During India’s HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Laxmi was one of the first activists to demand that the national anti-AIDS program include hijras as a separate category. She attended the 2006 World AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, and participated in HIV/AIDS activism at other international forums. In 2008 she became the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the United Nations, where she spoke of the plight of sexual minorities around the world, particularly in India.
In 2014, thanks to Laxmi’s successful petition, the Indian Supreme Court ruled to officially recognize a third gender. The landmark decision paved the way for transgender people to receive government benefits and for India’s decriminalization of same-sex relationships in 2018. In the wake of her Supreme Court victory, Tripathi formed the nonprofit Astitva Trust, Asia's first transgender organization, and established a Hindu hijra religious order, the Kinnar Akhara.
Laxmi was featured in the 2005 documentary “Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender.” In 2011 she starred in the celebrity edition of the Indian reality television series “Big Boss” and in “Queens! Destiny of Dance,” an acclaimed Bollywood film about hijras. In 2012 Laxmi published her autobiography, “Me Hijra, Me Laxmi.”
In 2017 at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Laxmi received the Rainbow Warrior Award. She received the Sree Narayana Guru Award for social service the same year.
To book Laxmi Narayan Tripathi as the Motivational speaker for your event simply complete the online form. For more information regarding any of the Motivational Speakers on our roster contact Simply Life India Speakers Bureau directly on: +91 8652835000 or speakers@simplylifeindia.com
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