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UNAIDS Poster Competition for World AIDS Day

We at UNAIDS are back with this exciting effort at mainstreaming the issues of sexual minorities in our country. We now announce the highly popular poster competition for World AIDS Day (WAD) this year.

This is what you can do if you are a MSM, transgender or lesbian/bisexual women's group of any sexual orientation (except heterosexual) or any gender identity. This year you will notice that we are bringing in the lesbian/bisexual women into the ambit of this poster competition in an effort to make visual their issues in mainstream society.

How you go about winning this competition

You get together as a group, sit down and thrash out what are your main issues in dealing with everyday life as you live it. Then, as a group, you make a poster based on those ideas. Try to make the poster as polished and ready-to-go as you can; we might send it to Geneva for international audiences.

You then take it to a college, preferably a school or college teaching fine arts like painting, crafts or design. You talk to the Principal of the Institution and show this announcement to him/her and ask him/her to allot you a particular senior class to talk to about your issues. Get a letter from the Principal that he/she has heard you out and agrees or disagrees with what you had to say regarding your issues.

Use your poster as an educational tool discussing your issues with the class. The class then gets to do a poster based on your discussion and their talents at drawings/ painting. The class must also give you a letter signed by a class-representative saying they heard you out and that their poster explains how much they understood and appreciated or otherwise did not appreciate your issues.

Put both posters into a poster-holder/tube and send it to the address given below to reach us before November 1st, 2008. The first three poster-pairs will win prizes of Rs. 20,000, Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 10,000 respectively. There will be another fourth prize for the "best effort" poster-pair. All selected and short-listed poster-pairs will be displayed at an exhibition UNAIDS arranges every year in Delhi and the prize winners will get trophies that are really worth exhibiting in your offices. If we have the money we will get you to Delhi to accept the award from our UN Country Coordinator (UCC).

Last year, the posters were so well appreciated that somebody stole all the prize winning posters from the Alliance Francais outdoor gallery despite tight security. That's how much they were appreciated. Rest assured they will surface after a decade and be sold for millions of rupees.

So get going and try your hand at this important poster competition. And remember the last date - November 1st, 2008.

So Queer Folk, don't just march, make a poster too and show them what material you are made of There are prizes to be won and fame and name to be grabbed too.

Who qualifies to enter this competition?

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