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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Series Editors’ Preface viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Chapter 1 Introduction: Queering Digital India 1
7. I Digital Performance and Politics
8. Chapter 2 Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable Conversation 27
9. Chapter 3 Digital Closets: Post-millennial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh 54
10. Chapter 4 Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore’s Gay Nightlife 72
11. II Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy
12. Chapter 5 Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital Divide 95
13. Chapter 6 Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a Response 112
14. Chapter 7 The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ Activism 132
15. III Digital Intimacies
16. Chapter 8 ‘Bitch, don’t be a lesbian’: Selfies and Same-Sex Desire 149
17. Chapter 9 Disciplining the ‘Delinquent’: Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies and Pleasures Among Friendship Networks of Young Men in Kolkata, India 165
18. Chapter 10 Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen 180
19. Contributors 195
20. Index 198