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This series contains the meeting minutes, meeting notes, and agendas of the Administrative Committee, correspondence, financial records, grant applications, greeting cards, handouts, and other material documenting broader activities of Khush such as fundraising and retreats. Also included are the Khush 1988 questionnaires and summary of results, personal records of Khush member Zamil Janmohamed in relation to Khush, and press coverage.

This series comprises the records of Khush Khayal, Khush’s newsletter that appeared periodically between 1989 and 1997. The files contain correspondence, notes, financial records, lists of subscribers, and drafts of most issues, along with copies of some issues of this newsletter.

This series contains a t-shirt from the Salaam Toronto festival in May 1989 and three cloth banners used by Khush for public events especially Pride Day.

This series contains the correspondence, notes, flyers, posters, newspaper clippings and other material documenting organizations and social events, especially the Desh Pardesh festival (including Discovery ’93). Also included are files on South Asian and Asian organizations in the Toronto area which members of Khush were actively involved and other South Asian and Asian organizations in Canada, the United States, and other countries with which Khush was in contact with.

The organization and events files are divided into the following sub-series:
1.1 - Toronto area South Asian and Asian events and organizations
1.2 - Community organizations outside Toronto and Canada

This series consists of six photographs, twenty sheets of negatives, one envelope, two postcards, and five colour slides. Photos include two group shots from ATISH Network (Vancouver) (01); black and white head shot of Shyam Selvadurai (02); landscape inscribed "with good wishes to K. K. from Darjeeling / Ama [?] Jayal" (03); one uninscribed photo of a seated man dated 89/9/9 (05); and one uninscribed photo of a woman standing with umbrella (07). Negatives include photos from private events, and two sheets probably taken at Pride Parade featuring banners with "The Best is Yet to Come," "Our Pride, Our Honour: Two Spirit Peoples of the First Nations," "Liberals for Equality Rights," "AIDS Action Now," "We are Family: Get Used to It," "KHUSH: Gay South Asians," and "Gay Asians Toronto" (04; 06). The postcards are identical, each with a black and white photo of a man and woman with the words "Memory Pictures" on the front (08). On the back are details of a documentary by Pratibha Parmar that features the work of Asian gay photographer Sunil Gupta. The five colour slides feature children posed in a yard, and one child indoors (09).