Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Series Editors’ Preface

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: Queering Digital India

pp 1-26

I - DIGITAL PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS

pp 27-28

2 - Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable Conversation

pp 29-53

3 - Digital Closets: Post-millenial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh

pp 54-71

4 - Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore’s Gay Nightlife

pp 72-94

II - DIGITAL ACTIVISM(S) AND ADVOCACY

pp 95-96

5 - Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital Divide

pp 97-111

6 - Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a Response

pp 112-131

7 - The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ Activism

pp 132-148

III - DIGITAL INTIMACIES

pp 149-150

8 - ‘Bitch, don’t be a lesbian’: Selfies and Same-Sex Desire

pp 151-164

9 - Disciplining the ‘Delinquent’: Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies and Pleasures Among Friendship Networks of Young Men in Kolkata, India

pp 165-179

10 - Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen

pp 180-194

Contributors

pp 195-197

Index

pp 198-206