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Dube, Siddharth, 1961-
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Gays -- India -- Biography.
Gay rights -- India.
Prostitutes -- Civil rights -- India.
Prostitutes -- Health and hygiene -- India.
AIDS (Disease) -- India.
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Dube, Siddharth, 1961-
Dube, Siddharth, 1961-
Gays -- India -- Biography.
Gay rights -- India.
Prostitutes -- Civil rights -- India.
Prostitutes -- Health and hygiene -- India.
AIDS (Disease) -- India.
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An indefinite sentence : a personal history of outlawed love and sex / Siddharth Dube.
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Dube, Siddharth, 1961-
Atria Books, 2019.
Call #:
323.3264 D814i
Subjects
Dube, Siddharth, 1961-
Gays
--
India
--
Biography.
Gay rights
--
India
.
Prostitutes
--
Civil rights
--
India
.
Prostitutes
--
Health and hygiene
--
India
.
AIDS
(
Disease
)
--
India
.
ISBN:
9781501158476 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Description:
374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in
India
in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers
India
Limited as No One Else."
Summary:
"From his time as a child in 1960s
India
, Siddharth Dube knew that he was different. Reckoning with his femininity and sexuality--and his intellect--would send him on a lifelong journey of discovery: from Harvard classrooms to unsafe cruising sites; from ivory-tower think-tanks to shantytowns; from halls of power at the UN and the World Bank to jail cells where sexual outcasts were brutalized. Coming of age in the earliest days of
AIDS
, Dube was at the front lines when that
disease
made rights for gay men and for sex workers a matter of basic survival, pushing to decriminalize same-sex relations and sex work in
India
, both similarly outlawed dating back to British colonial rule. (His efforts would contribute to the repeal of Section 377 in 2018.) He became a trenchant critic of the United States' imposition of its cruel anti-prostitution policies on developing countries--an effort legitimized by leading American feminists and would-be do-gooders--warning that this was a twenty-first-century replay of the moralistic Victorian-era campaigns that had spawned endless persecution of countless women, men, and trans individuals the world over. Profound, ferocious, and luminously written, [this book] is both a personal and political journey, weaving Dube's own quest for love and self-respect with unforgettable portrayals of the struggles of some of the world's most oppressed people, those reviled and cast out for their sexuality. Informed by a lifetime of scholarship and introspection, it is essential reading on the global debates over sexuality, gender expression, and securing human rights and social justice in a world distorted by inequality and right-wing ascendancy."--Dust jacket.
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