Bret Boyce (Detroit-Mercy): Sexuality and Gender Identity under the Constitution of India. Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee (ICWA): South Asia and the Alternate Sexual Life Style. Brinda Bose (Jawaharlal Nehru): Notes on Queer Politics in South Asia and its Diaspora. Kaustav Bakshi (Calcutta): Arekti Premer Golpo: The Yesteryear Female Impersonator, the Post-liberalization Transvestite and a Queer Stereotype. What it’s like to be gay in modern India: After 20 years of living in San Francisco, Sandip Roy returned to India, a country where everyone wants to know your business and where the idea of a man living alone is baffling. Kyle G. Knight on a queer internet space with a simple goal: safe housing for gay people in India. India has outlawed homosexuality — but it’s better to be transgender there than in the U.S. Tahmima Anam on transgender rights, Bangladesh style. In Afghan culture, the longstanding practice of switching gender roles for boys and girls has different intentions, but similar, disorienting results for the victims; how did these practices begin, and how do they reflect the larger gender politics of Afghanistan?
