Satrangi Express is a community-driven newsroom that enables budding writers, journalists, and activists to document the reality, struggles, and celebrations of LGBTQ+ lives in India. The idea of this platform is conceptualized as an inclusive media space wherein queer voices reach the fore, get amplified, and are treated with the depth and dignity they so rightfully deserve.
This is at a time when conversations on LGBTQ+ rights, identity, and representation have gained momentum, but are usually confined to urban narratives or surface-level reporting. Satrangi Express invites pitches from across the country to broaden that frame, document stories from small towns and marginalized communities, and capture everyday lived experiences that seldom make it to the mainstream newsrooms.
The editorial team has stipulated simple but stringent criteria for eligibility: written works no longer than 2,500 words are invited, although audio-visual formats such as short documentaries, photo essays, and multimedia features are also eligible. Newsroom needs underpin originality and depth of analysis and invite deeply reported submissions, investigations, or reflective personal accounts. The topics to be tackled would include law and policy, culture, health, education, and grassroots activism.
We would like to make this a space owned by the queer storytellers, adds one team member; the platform is crafted to nurture those emerging voices. Too many young journalists and activists do powerful work on the ground with limited platforms that understand their issues; Satrangi Express hopes to change things.
We welcome pitches from writers, students, independent journalists and community members. If you have a story to tell please send in your story proposals at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. It tries to be a newsroom that chronicles Queer India in all its myriad hues truthfully, sensitively and from within the community itself-a collaborative attempt at reaching out.
