About the Book

A POWERFUL COLLECTION OF VOICES REVEALING WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE, WORK AND LOVE AS LGBTQIA+ IN TODAY'S INDIA.
An unflinching collection of voices from across India's LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
Through essays, testimonies and reflections, this anthology examines what it means to live as a queer person in a society that remains legally restrictive and socially unaccommodating. From queer lawyers defending lesbian and trans couples in courtrooms and trans doctors and police officers navigating bias within their professions to artists negotiating visibility in fields as diverse as acting, modelling, comedy, theatre or people simply trying to go clubbing at night, Queer India Now documents the questions of identity, caste, dignity, money and visibility in a country that tries its best to ignore anything that's even slightly non-heteronormative.
Thoughtfully selected and edited by journalists and activists Dhrubo Jyoti and Dhamini Ratnam, these essays offer a sobering look at the state of queer people in India, bringing you face to face with the challenges they encounter, the communities they occupy and their sheer persistence in the face of a country's hostile indifference.

About the Editors

Dhrubo Jyoti is a Delhi-based journalist and writer. They're interested in centering Dalit voices in India's LGBTQIA+ movements.

Dhamini Ratnam is a journalist based in Delhi/Mumbai, who writes on the politics of gender, sexuality, art and culture through a queer feminist lens. She has seventeen years of experience as an editor and writer, and has worked in news organisations like Mint, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror and Mid-Day. She won the SOPA for Human Rights reporting in 2015, and a Global Investigative Journalists' Conference fellowship in 2017. A firm believer in sabbaticals, Dhamini has taken two: the first to teach in a village school in Doda and the other to research on the social history of Section 377.