The Humasar Trust works in partnership with other organizations. It networks with MSM and TG organizations across the country and supports setting up of newer community based organizations. HST also regularly networks with various NGOs working as HIV/ AIDS service agencies and specially with the government health departments of Maharashtra State and Mumbai city. HST collaborates with government hospitals which provide sexual health and HIV/AIDS- related services. This is more sustainable - and managerially simpler - than trying to provide a wider range of specialist services under Humsafar's roof.

The main learning of the organization includes community ownership and involving community at every level of its growth. The entire work and all projects of the organization have evolved out of community need and that has helped HST in gathering wide community support. It was strategically decided that Humsafar will not replicate any services that are available at public hospitals. Instead an effort was made to sensitize the public health systems on issues of MSM to create an enabling environment for the community. At the end of six years Humsafar collaborates with six public hospitals in Mumbai and the community continues to access services from these places. It shows that partnerships between public hospitals and NGOs can bring effective sustainability to the programs.Networking with other LGBT groups began had started at an informal level from the time Bombay Dost magazine had hit the stands. In the formative years there were no LGBT groups registered anywhere in the country. However as HST became the first gay group to get registered in April 1994 it decided to bring members of LGBT community together with an intention of paving path for different individuals to set up groups in their regions.

The HST decided to hold a conference of gay men India after it was officially registered as NGO that would deal with issues related to sexuality and health. In December 1994, a five day workshop titled "Emerging Gay Identities in South Asia- Implications for HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health" was organized in Technical assistance with Naz Foundation New Delhi. This conference was first of its kind in India addressing the debate on sexuality, sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS. The development of an effective and appropriate prevention program was also taken up at one of the workshops of the conference. The conference was attended by 74 delegates representing 17 cities across the country and other countries as Sri Lanka, England and USA.

The impact of this conference was so tremendous that on returning different individuals started setting up groups in their regions. The setting up of COJ (Companions on a Journey ) an Asian queer group based in Sri Lanka and Counsel Club in Calcutta was a direct outcome of the 1994 conference. The individuals who had come as delegates in December 1994 returned as 27 official organizations in May 2000 at the second conference hosted by HST at Gorai, a beach resort on the outskirts of Mumbai. The conference was called 'Looking into the next millennium" and at this conference it was unanimously agreed that now the need is to work towards an all India network for sexual minorities. The first meet of INFOSEM happened four years later in Mumbai in August 2004.

The HST collaborated with The Aanchal Trust (a lesbian group based in Mumbai) to organize the first international conference of gay men and lesbian women in Mumbai in October 2002. The conference was attended was by over 90 members of LGBT organizations from 37 countries. The HST also works in close collaboration with some prominent LGBT groups across the country listed below -

Support Groups of HST

1 ) The Aanchal Trust, Mumbai ( Lesbian Group )
2) Sangini, Delhi (Lesbian Group)
3) Naz (India) Foundation, Delhi
4) Lakshya Trust, Baroda, Surat, Rajkot
5) SWAM, Chennai
6) Samapathik Trust, Pune
7) Sakhi Char Chowghi, Mumbai
8) Swikriti - Kolkatta
9) SAATHI - Kolkatta
10) INP+ Chennai
11) Dai Welfare Trust (TG) Mumbai


Groups Nurtured by HST

1) Lakhsya Trust - Baroda, Surat, Rajkot
2) Samapathik Trust - Pune
3) Char Chowghi - Mumbai
4) Dai Welfare Trust-Mumbai
5) Saarthii Nagpur