It was long and painful, but homosexual legal rights in Asia is finally becoming a robust – and built-in – political force.

The struggle in India of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual (LGBT), hijra, kothi and other non-heterosexualities – what this writer terms as ‘queer’ sexualities – has been fought along the silent margins of both mainstream society and ‘progressive’ politics for many years. Things have actually started to improvement in the last few years, but there is nevertheless an extended method to get. The spaces that queer lives must negotiate in India today remain difficult – in their everyday lives, as well as in their struggle to articulate sexuality as not just as an aspect of identity, but as a deeply held political language in its own right while certain sections of Indian society have opened up due to the activism of the queer-rights movement.

Society over and over informs us there is only 1 sort of acceptable desire – male, heterosexual, within wedding. Continue reading →