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Book Detail
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Gay Bombay:
Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Shahani, Parmesh
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Category: Social Science: Homosexuality Gay Studies Publisher: Sage Publications Imprint: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd Affiliation: Head, Godrej India Culture Lab, and Editor-at-Large, Verve Magazine, India Audience: College/higher education
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Synopsis:
Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Specifically, he explores what being gay means to members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world. On a broader level, he critically examines the formulation and reconfiguration of contemporary Indian gayness in the light of its emergent cultural, media, and political alliances.
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