Gaysians- Books for South Asian LGBTQIA

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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 18,852 ratings
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Marriage of a Thousand Lies 3.72 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
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The Hungry Ghosts
The Hungry Ghosts 3.84 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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The Devourers
The Devourers
by: Indra Das
3.75 avg rating — 4,675 ratings
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Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Funny Boy
Funny Boy 4.06 avg rating — 8,695 ratings
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Kari
Kari 3.81 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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The City of Devi (The Hindu Gods, #3)
The City of Devi (The Hindu Gods, #3) 3.28 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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No One Can Pronounce My Name
No One Can Pronounce My Name 3.66 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
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The Lowland
The Lowland 3.88 avg rating — 95,705 ratings
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Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History
Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History 4.10 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia
The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia 4.05 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Bright Lines
Bright Lines 3.58 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
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If They Come for Us
If They Come for Us 4.23 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures 4.17 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Blue Boy
Blue Boy 3.65 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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Quarantine: Stories
Quarantine: Stories 3.61 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Two Krishnas: A Novel
The Two Krishnas: A Novel 3.73 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Babyji
Babyji 3.32 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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A Map of Home
A Map of Home 3.78 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Lord of the Senses
Lord of the Senses 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings
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His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light
His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light 3.55 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Other Man
The Other Man 3.65 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
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Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith
Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India
Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Falling into Place
Falling into Place 3.89 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Almost Home (Love in Wildes, #3)
Almost Home (Love in Wildes, #3)
by: Anna P.
4.48 avg rating — 98 ratings
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I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities
I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities 3.60 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 35,335 ratings
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The Subtweet
The Subtweet 3.68 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw 4.42 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader
The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Gay Icons of India
Gay Icons of India really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Feminist Fables
Feminist Fables 3.86 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Queering India
Queering India 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Indian Homosexuality : Ancient India to contemporary India
Indian Homosexuality : Ancient India to contemporary India 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Lotus Of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience
Lotus Of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Islam and Homosexuality(2 Volumes Set)
Islam and Homosexuality(2 Volumes Set) 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Cereus Blooms at Night
Cereus Blooms at Night 4.02 avg rating — 3,608 ratings
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Memory of Light
Memory of Light 3.47 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Queer: Sunil Gupta
Queer: Sunil Gupta 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema
Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Married Woman
A Married Woman 3.29 avg rating — 918 ratings
48.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 46,003 ratings
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The authentic lie
The authentic lie 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,168 ratings
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Stealing Nasreen
Stealing Nasreen 3.67 avg rating — 117 ratings
52.
A Dutiful Boy
A Dutiful Boy 4.56 avg rating — 3,312 ratings
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Night Artillery
Night Artillery 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bodies in Motion
Bodies in Motion 3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Conversations of Cow
The Conversations of Cow 3.77 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Paths of Marriage
The Paths of Marriage 3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion 4.24 avg rating — 599 ratings
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All the Words Unspoken
All the Words Unspoken 3.82 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects
Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects 3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Goja: An Autobiographical Myth
Goja: An Autobiographical Myth 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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She of the Mountains
She of the Mountains 4.06 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
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Facing the mirror: Lesbian writing from India
Facing the mirror: Lesbian writing from India 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Pregnant King
The Pregnant King 3.85 avg rating — 3,381 ratings
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Miss Timmins' School for Girls
Miss Timmins' School for Girls 3.08 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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Shikhandi and Other Stories They Don't Tell You
Shikhandi and Other Stories They Don't Tell You 3.60 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
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Red Threads: The South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs
Red Threads: The South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Volume 31) (American Crossroads)
Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Volume 31) (American Crossroads) 3.82 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Close, Too Close: The Tranquebar Book of Queer Erotica
Close, Too Close: The Tranquebar Book of Queer Erotica
by: Meenu
3.18 avg rating — 60 ratings
69.
The Crooked Line
The Crooked Line 3.84 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Buddha of Suburbia
The Buddha of Suburbia 3.75 avg rating — 20,583 ratings
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Seasonal Velocities
Seasonal Velocities
by: Ryka Aoki
4.36 avg rating — 118 ratings
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After
After 4.56 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Me Hijra, Me Laxmi
Me Hijra, Me Laxmi 3.57 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Bollywood Gay 2016: 'A help yourself book to living an authentic life.'
Bollywood Gay 2016: 'A help yourself book to living an authentic life.' liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Take a Walk in my Big Indian Heels: MR SINGH'S DIARY
Take a Walk in my Big Indian Heels: MR SINGH'S DIARY 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims 3.94 avg rating — 222 ratings
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A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance 3.40 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Sex and Desperate Hearts: Tales of Muslim Gays Looking for Love
Sex and Desperate Hearts: Tales of Muslim Gays Looking for Love
by: S. Aksah
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
80.
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims 3.95 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore
The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore 3.64 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D.
Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D. 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Rughum & Najda
Rughum & Najda 3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Religion and Sexual Minorities: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Muslims (Temple Tracts Book 11)
Religion and Sexual Minorities: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Muslims (Temple Tracts Book 11) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith
Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
87.
Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant
Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Yaraana: Gay Writing from India
Yaraana: Gay Writing from India 3.40 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Man Who Would be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions
The Man Who Would be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets
Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sufiana
Sufiana 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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My Sunset Marriage
My Sunset Marriage 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Lifting the Veil
Lifting the Veil 4.05 avg rating — 790 ratings
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Fearless Love: Anthology
Fearless Love: Anthology 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Myrmecophile
Myrmecophile 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Narman
Narman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman 3.77 avg rating — 402 ratings
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I Hope You'll Still Love Me
I Hope You'll Still Love Me 4.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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This Way Out
This Way Out 4.02 avg rating — 3,922 ratings