Releasg on the first anniversary of the repealg of Sectn 377, Vivek Tejuja's book is a rellectn of navigatg the neti as a gay man Mumbai.
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GROWG UP GAY INDIA THOR VIVEK TEJUJA: 'ISN'T ENOUGH QUEER LERATURE INDIAN NTEXT'
Conversatns about gay liv tend to be limed to urban, upper-ste men. We need queer lerature regnal languag to tell the non cis-het stori of small towns and villag * gay literature in india *
After mentng the queer world the ancient Indian lerature, here some exampl om the public bate on the cp of the 20th century: although homophobia is not measurable the Indian tradn, is still possible to observe diverse currents of opn regardg var aspects of livg. Conmng homosexualy as unnatural and agast nature is much more the prerogative of Judaeo-Christian environment, whereas the Hdu world, is nsired as a mere impure act (not unlike other thgs). Two ways of thkg emerged stead: the first one was openly opposed to addrsg any kd of homosexualy or erotic related topic, the send one was favour of the fact that lerature mt al wh LGBTQIA-related them, but only to eradite such “practic” om the society of that time.
Ugr was among those who aimed to nounce homosexualy orr to eradite om society, but his stori did not exclively al wh gay characters: the thor distguished himself om others of his time as one of the first to clearly reprent the vlent dynamics wh the fay and child abe om the victim’s pot of view. A growg tert gay studi flourished the ’70s which helped to change the obscurantist mood and to shed light on the LGBTQIA scene. In 1978, the first Indian study about homosexualy was published by Shakuntala Devi.
In the 90s, a slow but promisg rebirth of the LGBT narrative lerature n be observed: fally ee om a mix of Victorian valu and natnalistic norms, a number of thors veloped a new approach based on the equaly and the natural ndn of homosexual and non-homosexual relatnships.