Saleem Kidwai, scholar who unearthed long-buried lerature on gay love India, di at 70 - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY MCLAWHORN LOVE, 90, MATRIARCH OF ATLANTA’S PRTPACK
• PRTPACK IS SADNED TO ANNOUNCE THE PASSG OF CHAIRMAN EMER, GAY M. LOVE
• SALEEM KIDWAI, SCHOLAR WHO UNEARTHED LONG-BURIED LERATURE ON GAY LOVE INDIA, DI AT 70
• GAY LOVE OBUARY
• GAY GAER LUCE OBUARY
• BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

GAY MCLAWHORN LOVE, 90, MATRIARCH OF ATLANTA’S PRTPACK

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PRTPACK IS SADNED TO ANNOUNCE THE PASSG OF CHAIRMAN EMER, GAY M. LOVE

Prtpack regniz wh gratu the ntributns of Gay Love, tly the “Mother of Prtpack, ” for her full, spirg, and well-lived life.

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SALEEM KIDWAI, SCHOLAR WHO UNEARTHED LONG-BURIED LERATURE ON GAY LOVE INDIA, DI AT 70

” The book was wily regard as a foundatnal text for queer studi India and was ced heargs before the untry’s Supreme Court, which end the crimalizatn of homosexualy 2018. “Saleem Kidwai and Ruth Vana were the ammunn for to advote what our history was and how our culture was and how to reclaim , ” said Anand Grover, one of the lawyers who led the se for the repeal of Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, unr which homosexualy was shift helped change the public atmosphere wh which the jtic would eventually renr their cisn, Grover said. Kidwai and Vana embarked on their project the early 1990s, much of the Indian amy, polil tablishment and social ele rejected homosexualy as an alien import om the Wt and an afont to Indian culture and society.

“Durg the time that the book was first published, was monly asserted by homophobic cultural natnalists that homosexualy was never a part of Indian tradn, ” Shohi Ghosh, a profsor at the A. “As you’d be readg, you’d fd lots of thgs that would strike you and your gaydar would start tgg, ” Mr.

Kidwai later told Project Bolo, a llectn of oral histori documentg the gay muny India. In the Indian media, gay and lbian upl, when they appeared at all, were mostly nfed to the tegory of tragic circumstance — doomed love that ends, for example, a double suici by rat poison or private referenc were oblique. Kidwai liked to reunt, gossips dissectg the end of a marriage might mentn that the man was impotent, though only wh the 2018 judicial lg, homosexualy was punishable by up to 10 years jail.

GAY LOVE OBUARY

The anti-sodomy law, imposed by the Brish India 1861, was ed to blackmail men tryg to meet men for sex public parks and, at the height of the AIDS crisis, to block the distributn of ndoms Indian were no gay bars or nightclubs Delhi.

“By translatg lerature about same-sex love om 15 Indian languag posed over more than 2, 000 years, the book challenged the morn homophobic ia that homosexualy was a foreign import, ” Vana said.

“Homosexualy wasn’t a foreign import. Homophobia was. He moved to Delhi at 17, ostensibly to study history at Delhi Universy, but also bee he had realized that Indian small-town life would be too nstrag for a gay received his bachelor’s and master’s gre history and started teachg at Delhi Universy was granted leave om the universy 1976 to pursue PhD studi at McGill Universy Montreal.

GAY GAER LUCE OBUARY

Kidwai was among about 150 men arrted an armed police raid on two Montreal gay bars. )By then, trmatized by his arrt, perdic urt appearanc and the nstant threat of portatn, and disillned at the prospect of livg openly as a gay man the Wt, Mr. In the 1990s, he beme creasgly active Delhi’s gay muny, where he was nstant mand at nferenc and on televisn talk movg back to Lucknow about two s ago, he worked wh televisn producers on a documentary about the late sger and actrs Begum Akhtar.

BEVERLY GAY BRONSTON OBUARY

Kidwai replied wryly: “If I was to believe rebirth, I would want to be born gay. Ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.

Rights Vcenz rryg a plard prottg the ary’s ban on gay people while picketg the Pentagon July 1965. Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. “After leavg the WAC, ” she said an terview wh the se Gay Today, “I actually felt ee to be me. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

” she told Gay Today about her early efforts wh the society. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. Vcenz beme the edor of the Mattache Society’s monthly newsletter, The Homosexual Cizen.

In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L.

Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr.