Hindi gay novels
Indian novels that celebrated queer with pride
No matter what the conservatives say about queerness. It is not a new thing in India. The rich literature about homosexuality, transgenderism, and gender fluidity, from ancient epics to scriptures, to medieval prose and poetry, to art and architecture are evidence of their existence.
Even before the Supreme Court scraped the criminalisaton of consensual sexual actions between adults of the alike sex, queer literature was existence written and actively read.
'Lihaaf', a short story by Urdu penner Ismat Chugtai, subtly explored lesbianism while 'Chocolate', a short story by Hindi writer Pandey Bechan Sharma, examined homoerotic desires.
Here’s a list that highlights queer Indian literature for both Indian and global audience:
'A Married Woman' by Manju Kapur
Kapur’s novel is a nuanced exploration of familial influence dynamics in an Indian context and she sensitively writes about the Hindu/Muslim communal tangles. Kapur is known for her subtle and slow daily soaps. A few of her b
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Queer Literature
To read lgbtq+ literature from India is, to a large extent, to read between the lines. Since the augment of notions of colonial morality in the subcontinent, there has been a systemic erasure of lgbtq+ voices. What remain today are largely texts that merely hint at the love and relationship mutual between same-sex companions. Talking about this systemic erasure Ashwini Sukthankar, in her Introduction to Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India says ‘terms historically used to describe women who love women – such as sakhi and saheli – have been purged of their eroticism over time and reshaped into harmless descriptions of female friendship, so that today we find ourselves banished from language itself, literally at a decline for words.’ Still, some texts remain preserved in our history that not only vaguely allude to, but rather openly assert , the pervasiveness of desires other than normative heterosexual ones.
This listicle aims to bring to light a few of these groundbreaking and provocative works of Indian language literature. It explores chron
Update 3/31/ PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A MORE UPDATED LIST
The past couple of years have been monumental when it comes to gender non-conforming rep in books. There&#;s still a long way to go but seeing more and more diverse queer stories come out brings me a lot of joy. Here&#;s a list of books with lgbtq+ desi characters (some of these haven&#;t been published yet but will be later this year). Let me grasp if I missed any!
**Please note that I haven&#;t scan a lot of these so I cannot speak for quality or how good the inclusion is.
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When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Recipient of a Stonewall Honor and longlisted for the National Book Award, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic.
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses expand out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how brief anyone knows about his life before he
#PrideMonth: 10 Splendid Books with LGBT Themes for Your Shelves
June is celebrated the world over as Lgbtq+ fest Month, with the last Sunday of the month marking the end of the weekend extravaganza that is New York Urban area Pride. In India, the Pride March is held at different times in different cities: Delhi has celebrated Pride in November, and the Mumbai Marches are usually held in August. Each city celebrates Pride at different times but they all labor towards a common goal: establishing sexual equality in society and abolishing Section of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises all forms of queer sexuality (even though it doesn’t explicitly use the word &#;gay&#;, &#;lesbian&#; or &#;transgender&#;).
In , while attending the meetings involved in the run-up to Pride, the volunteers were made alert that although the planet knows the main event as the Pride March, it is a actually a march: it is an ongoing protest that will continue to be called a march until sexual equality is established in the world order.
Ankita Poddar compiled a list of ten splendid Homosexual themed books to transport