[1] It focuses on community empowerment and support, engagement with civil society and other organizations, and advocacy and lobbying.

[1] According to Sappho for Equality's website, Sappho worked to "provide safe space and emotional support for sexually marginalized women and female to male transpersons," but moved on to "rights/justice based framework to fight homophobia, discrimination and violence against LBT persons.

Sappho embodies, in this way, two common strands of the queer movement in India—one that links sexuality to identity (the support group) and one that attempts to break this very association (the activist platform).

[1][5] Sappho for Equality organizes Dialogues, an annual LGBT film and video festival established in 2007.

[8][9][10][11][12] It publishes Swakanthey, a magazine described by Scroll.in as "a biannual, bilingual six-page newsletter of academic articles, non-fiction stories and poetry," established in 2004.