Siddharth Dube

{ONE} THERE WERE BREATHTAKING SIGNS in that heady era, when India was celebrating 50 years of independence and a new millennium shone ahead, that a revolution was underway for the country’s sex workers.

On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, the US should reconsider its global war against sex work. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Supporters and members of the LGBT community participate in a queer pride parade in Ahmadabad, India, on February 24, 2019. (AP / Ajit Solanki) In 1982, as a young undergraduate, I fled from my Delhi college to Tufts University, desperately hoping that in the liberal West my self-loathing and terrors about being gay would fade into irrelevance.

On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, the US should reconsider its global war against sex work. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark June 28, 2019 Supporters and members of the LGBT community participate in a queer pride parade in Ahmadabad, India, on February 24, 2019. (AP / Ajit Solanki) In 1982, as a young undergraduate, I fled from my Delhi college to Tufts University, desperately hoping that in the liberal West my self-loathing and terrors about being gay would fade into irrelevance.