Anjali Gopalan won the battle against India's homophobes this year
She is: The founder of the Naz Foundation
Gopalan also noticed that many of the HIV-infected children she saw hadn’t worn condoms because they were too big. When she tried to tell NGOs for children about the problem, they were scandalised.
Ashok Row Kavi, founder of male sexual health NGO, Humsafar Trust, and one of India’s most prominent gay rights activists, says Gopalan was prescient about other important LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues as well.
(This story appears in the 08 January, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)