Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society

Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. With Respect to Sex: With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality.

The Truth About Me is the unflichingly courageous and moving autobiography of a Hijra who fought ridicule, persecution and violence both within her home and outside to find a life of dignity. Revathi was born a boy, but felt and behaved like a girl. In telling her life story, Revathi evokes marvelously the deep unease of being in the wrong body that plagued her from childhood.

To be true to herself, to escape the constant violence visited upon her by her family and community, the village born Revathi ran away to Delhi to join a house of Hijras. Same-Sex Love in India: Same-Sex Love in India offers an eloquent range of writings spanning more than two thousand years of Indian literature.

Drawn from Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and contemporary fictional sources these writings convincingly demonstrate that same-sex love has flourished, evolved and been embraced in various forms since ancient times. From the Mahabharata to modern writers and artists such as Ismat Chughtai and Bhupen Khakhar, the eclectic and expressive selections in this anthology include excerpts from devotional books, legal and erotic treatises, story cycles, medieval histories among the likes. People of the Third Sex: He was born a boy, but never felt like one.

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Responsibility edited by Ruth Vanita. Physical description p. I4 Q84 Unknown. Find it at other libraries via WorldCat Limited preview. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Introduction by Ruth Vanita. About 2, people turned out in these nationwide parades. Mumbai held its pride march on 16 August , with Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley flagged off the festivities. On 27 June , Bhubaneswar , the capital city of Odisha , saw its first gay pride parade. Mumbai has one of its own pride events, like Kashish Mumbai Queer Film Festival which was first held in from 22 to 25 April [77] and in the next year from 25 to 29 May.

Madurai celebrated city's first LGBTQ Rainbow festival on 29 July , Anjali Gopalan inaugurated Alan Turing Rainbow festival and flagged off the Asia's first Gender queer pride parade as a part of Turing Rainbow festival organised by Srishti Madurai, a literary and resource circle for alternative gender and sexualities. The objective of the organisation in to highlight 20 different types of Genders.

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Chandigarh held its first LGBT pride parade on 15 March and it has been held annually ever since. Rajasthan witnessed its first pride event on 1 March , when a pride walk was held in Jaipur. Awadh witnessed the first Awadh Pride parade in He had trouble finding sponsors.

He did not return to India and reportedly sought asylum in the United States. In February , the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare unveiled resource material relating to health issues to be used as a part of a nationwide adolescent peer-education plan called Saathiya. Among other subjects, the material discusses homosexuality.

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The material states, "Yes, adolescents frequently fall in love. They can feel attraction for a friend or any individual of the same or opposite sex. It is normal to have special feelings for someone. It is important for adolescents to understand that such relationships are based on mutual consent, trust, transparency and respect.

It is alright to talk about such feelings to the person for whom you have them but always in a respectful manner. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. LGBT rights in India.

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