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 identical sex, queer literature was creature 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
#PrideMonth: 10 Splendid Books with LGBT Themes for Your Shelves
June is celebrated the world over as Identity festival Month, with the last Sunday of the month marking the end of the weekend extravaganza that is New York Capital 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 function 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 legal title &#;gay&#;, &#;lesbian&#; or &#;transgender&#;).
In , while attending the meetings involved in the run-up to Pride, the volunteers were made conscious that although the earth knows the main event as the Pride Procession, 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 Diverse themed books to fetch
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Queer Literature
To study queer 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 gender non-conforming voices. What stay today are largely texts that merely hint at the love and affair shared between queer 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 inoffensive descriptions of female friendship, so that today we discover ourselves banished from language itself, literally at a deficit for words.’ Still, some texts linger preserved in our history that not only vaguely allude to, but rather openly declare, the pervasiveness of desires other than normative heterosexual ones.
This listicle aims to take 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 queer rep in books. There&#;s still a extended way to go but seeing more and more diverse queer stories approach out brings me a lot of joy. Here&#;s a list of books with queer 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 read a lot of these so I cannot speak for quality or how good the inclusion is.
YOUNG ADULT / Modern ADULT
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 grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a rain tower when she was five. Sam is established for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he