Gay Bombay by Parmh Shahani (ebook)

Contents:

• GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA
• GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA
• GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND BELONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA PAPERBACK – 14 MARCH 2008
• GAY BOMBAY: AN INTERVIEW WH PARMH SHAHANI (PART ONE)
• BOOK REVIEW: GAY BOMBAY
• GAY BOMBAY
• GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA

GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA

Usg a batn of multi-sed ethnography, textual analysis, historil documentatn analysis, and memoir wrg, Parmh Shahani provis macro and micro perspectiv on what means to be a gay man loted Gay Bombay. Usg a batn of multi-sed ethnography, textual analysis, historil documentatn analysis, and memoir wrg, the thor provis macro and micro perspectiv on what means to be a gay man loted Gay Bombay at a particular pot time. Specifilly, he explor what beg gay means to members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate loly and globalizatn, their sense of inty as well as a feelg of muny wh s onle/offle world.

On a broar level, he crilly exam the formulatn and renfiguratn of ntemporary Indian gayns the light of s emergent cultural, media, and polil allianc. Gay Bombay: Globalizatn, Love and (Be)longg Contemporary IndiaUsg a batn of multi-sed ethnography, textual analysis, historil documentatn analysis, and memoir wrg, the thor provis macro and micro perspectiv on what means to be a gay man loted Gay Bombay at a particular pot time. GenrQueerLGBTIndia352 pag, PaperbackFirst published March 1, 2008About the thorRatgs & ReviewsFriends & Followg Communy ReviewsDisplayg 1 - 5 of 5 reviews158 reviews52 followersAugt 20, 2020I picked up @parmhshahani Gay Bombay, Anniversary Edn and I am 200 pag .

Few thoughts: If you are someone who is studyg Media or Gay Rights a globalizg world, pick turant! No cliche wrg and no bullshtgIf you want to grow as a rear and unsee Bollywood sprkled iatn of LGBTQ, even though the thor has ma clear through out that he is picky focg on one group of Gays this Queerg narrative. I particularly loved the nnectn between expansn of nsumerism wh growth of overt gay world.

GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA

The ia of how homosexualy is the basis for a change social, polil and mercial inti is enthrallg. The thor, an out and gay man himself, has prented the rults of his rearch form of terview snippets and has fed the narrative wh his own ial journey as a gay man, disverg himself, the var muni Bombay, the media's take then, the activism the early days, and Bombay, which is an LGBT social anizatn Bombay, was the foc of the thor's rearch and, hence, the thor speaks about the anizatn's journey much tail and also go on to pare wh The Humsafar book will help one get a fair ia about the different aspects of the LGBT muny s early stag, physilly Bombay wh members om different parts of the world entire review has been hidn bee of spoilers. The anecdotal however betifully speaks to the specific lived experience of a gay man bombay on the cp of two lenia.

GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND BELONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA PAPERBACK – 14 MARCH 2008

My first book Gay Bombay: Globalizatn, Love and (Be)Longg Contemporary India was released 2008 and re-released 2020 (Sage Publitns), and my send book Queeristan: LGBTQ Incln the Indian Workplace was released 2020 (Wtland Bs). Through a multi-sed ethnography an onle-offle muny, Parmh Shahani exam how Inter technologi, the media dtry, dienc and broar soc-historil ntexts shape gay inty ntemporary urban India. He realiz that the inty of a gay man the muny is negotiated on the stabily of the ia of Indianns.

For rears across the world foced on India, Gay Bombay will serve as a memorable journey through var transns urban India. Parmh Shahani, a recent alum of the Comparative Media Studi Masters Program, now nsultg for some of the leadg magaz and media pani India, has published an excg new book, Gay Bombay: Globalizatn, Love and (Be)Longg Contemporary India.

GAY BOMBAY: AN INTERVIEW WH PARMH SHAHANI (PART ONE)

It is a darg approach, pecially given the recent history of homophobic backlash India, but also sheds sights that no more distanced wrg uld offer. So, I hope I n be fiven a teacher's pri seeg one of my stunts make good as I share wh you this terview wh Shahani about his book, about the place of gay culture India, and about the methods behd his rearch. You wre, "Gay do not mean what do Ameri, or the wt at large.

" So what do gay mean an Indian ntext? Homosexualy isn't an alien ncept India. In ntemporary urban India (My rearch was based solely wh this ntext), while there is no guilt-based taboo agast homosexualy, beg gay has s own unique set of nnotatns and experienc bee of the cultural and social stctur, and fay prsur that sist on nformy to tradnal patriarchal, heteronormative valu.

Fay, social and muny nnectns are the primary ti, and gay people do not want to let go of the at all. People hardly e out, and even if they do, they want to acmodate their gay inty wh the tablished amework. In the wt, if fai are un- acceptg, then gay men often move away and form separate muni but almost all the people I terviewed for the book who were livg India were adamant that they were very nnected to their fai and did not want to move away om them at all.

BOOK REVIEW: GAY BOMBAY

It is almost like a pulsory stage of life, and for many gay people, this is the biggt challenge that they have to negotiate. The prsure to nform is even more tense when the gay person is effemate and th visibly marked different. Rebelln agast this prsure n sometim mean banishment but most s, the gay person is not thrown out, but prsured to change his ways orr to mata the fay honour.

GAY BOMBAY

At the same time, there are also so many global fluenc, whether is the verage of gay marriage the US that gets reported on regularly India, or films like Brokeback Mounta, or gay dance parti and so on. When urban Indian gay men nstct an ia of their gayns, they draw upon all of the different ponents and create an imagatn wh global fluenc but rooted very much the lol reali.

GAY BOMBAY: GLOBALIZATN, LOVE AND (BE)LONGG CONTEMPORARY INDIA

I thk that to be gay Gay Bombay signifi beg 'glol'; and gayns here stands for Indianized gayns. The onle-offle group Gay Bombay, around which my book is based, is certaly spired by Wtern notns of what means to be gay - s dance parti, PFLAG style meets, webse, etc, have all drawn om Wtern experienc; but they have been ctomized, glolized, and ma uniquely Indian. In fact, this is the ma le of attack ed whenever the disurse around homosexualy be too public, or too threateng.

It seems that beg gay is somethg that needs to be prevented om happeng to the imprsnable young men and women of the untry!