{"id":241,"name":"Pawan Dhall","url":"","description":"Pawan has been engaged with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and other queer community mobilization in eastern and other parts of India since the early 1990s. He was a founder member of Counsel Club (1993-2002) and \u201cPravartak\u201d (1991-92, 1993-2000), among the first queer support forums and publications in India. He has studied economics in college, and worked as a journalist, copywriter and social communicator in his early years as a professional. From 2002 to 2014, he was part of SAATHII, an HIV focussed capacity building NGO, at the top management level. He now leads Varta Trust, a Kolkata-based gender and sexuality publishing and advocacy non-profit agency (www.vartagensex.org), which affords him social research and \u201crainbow journalism\u201d opportunities on queer health and development issues","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/author\/pawan-dhal\/","slug":"pawan-dhal","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/687e50f7da76c085059a65f6bd84fdfb6cab9958b81066bd09df2d41c6ba7b9b?s=24&d=blank&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/687e50f7da76c085059a65f6bd84fdfb6cab9958b81066bd09df2d41c6ba7b9b?s=48&d=blank&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/687e50f7da76c085059a65f6bd84fdfb6cab9958b81066bd09df2d41c6ba7b9b?s=96&d=blank&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}