Maitri Dore, or the more pop-culture friendly Dore Mai, as she calls herself on her blog, does illustrations for both children's books and LGBT magazines like Gaylaxy. A Mumbai-based architect, Dore has poetically managed to step out of India's sanskaari box. With her strongly political art, that looks like a child's innocent work (with crayons/pencil colour) at first, she gives out messages that most adults don't think of. "I always had an interest in the LGBTQ community and the issues it faces", Dore told The The Newsminute. "It is because of that I started contributing to online sites including Gaysi and Gaylaxy."

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