Whistling in the Dark

About This Book

‘By turns stark and wry, emotional and enlightening, Whistling in the Dark serves as more than just an academic addition to the canon of sub-continental queer studies.’—Verve ‘Not just a dry-as-dust series of interviews, these are real-life stories of real people, living all around us, yet feeling separate from the mainstream… This book gives them a voice.’—The Tribune The twenty-six interviewees in Whistling in the Dark represent a cross-section of India’s LGBTQI+ community—poets, artists, professors, students, activists, clerks and auto-rickshaw drivers; family men, gay couples, unmarried people and divorcees. The probing and incisive questions put to the respondents tease out narratives that go beyond the conventional and provide rare insight into the private lives of queer people in urban and small town India. Conducted at various times over more than two decades, the interviews show how little has changed despite legal victories for gay rights. Countless men remain trapped.....