Abstract: What makes a city liveable? Often we are situated at various margins of a city—social, spatial and sexual. This paper uses auto-ethnographic storytelling of social-sexual differences that produce our everyday geographies. From gay parties to parks, public sex and dating apps, it opens up questions of caste, class, desires in Delhi from a Dalit queer standpoint. These geographies of survival, I argue, are ephemeral, imagined and performative. They survive as temporal entities in their ability to collapse. These are messy geographies of how the queer survive through caste, class and such other identity particularly when social standing is closely linked with the material one.
The author is an Assistant Professor at O. P. Jindal Global University, Haryana. dhirenborisa6@gmail.com. This article should be cited as Borisa D., 2020. ‘City and Sexuality’: An auto-Ethnographic Storytelling of Geographies of Caste, Class and Queerness in Delhi, Geography and You, 20(4-5): 82-87
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