Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Parmesh Shahani, "Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and "
English | ISBN: 9353884209 | 2020 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 9353884209 | 2020 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This was the first ethnography of gay life in contemporary India. It talked about the early age of the internet in the country and the creation of online-offline gay communities from the mid-1990s to the mid 2000s. The anniversary edition has chapters from leading global scholars about the continuing importance of the book, as well as an updated preface from the author. It has an interview as an afterword that talks about the path ahead for queer rights in India, in the context of the recent Supreme Court judgement decriminalizing homosexuality.