A collection of essays on the topic of same-sex relations by a number of scholars from different disciplines such as literary studies, history, media studies and sociology.

Contributors include Shohini Ghosh and T.Muraleedharan on film, Leela Gandhi, Anannya Dasgupta and Ruth Vanita on fiction, Kathryn Hansen on Parsi theater, Scott Kugle and Carla Petievich on Persian and Urdu poetry, Geeta Patel and Mona Bachmann on the film Fire, Suparna Bhaskaran on the history of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.