The Gaysi Zine Vol. 2 (2013)

THE GAY'S ANATOMY // 08 Aniruddha Mahale examines what it means to be a twenty-something gay man in a big, bad city. THE LESSONS I’VE LEARNT // 36 How a bollywood song can evoke life’s lessons. THE CONSERVATIVE INDIAN’S MAP OF SEXUALITY // 10 Mohini Mukerjee’s take on Queer from the eyes of a conservative Indian. STRAIGHT TALK : THE WOMEN THAT LOVED ME // 39 Chitra Kalyani blurs the lines. BLACK IS, BROWN AIN’T // 12 Kareem looks at how far the colour of your skin can take you. KYSS MIG : A REVIEW // 41 Queer Coolie on the movie that has been voted the top LGBT ?lm of 2012. MY FIRST LOVE // 15 Priya explores the innocence of ?rst love. HOW CAN I HELP MY PARTNER AND THEIR FAMILY OVERCOME THEIR DENIAL? // 46 Pink freud on coping with common denial. WHAT’S IN STORE > FAMILY PLANNING // 17 There are some plans that are never meant to be broken. MASKING OF MY HEART // 48 Ashley responds to Paul Dunbar’s poem. SPICY COCONUT PRAWNS WITH SWEET AND SOUR CUCUMBER // 21 A lazy-Sunday-in-between-sex-quick-?x recipe. Mr.RANJABATI : AN EXTRACT // 50 A story of a secret that eats away at two lives. SLOPPY FIRSTS // 22 Rhea Dease wonders if the ?rst time is the best. THE CRAZY INDIAN DYKE // 56 Hollian on how the Bombay queers got under her skin. WHAT WAS, WHAT IS // 25 Priyank Pillai on what it means to let go. FIXATIONS // 59 Mayank on what it means to admire from a distance. A LETTER TO MY COCK // 26 Deen voices his thoughts on the things you forget to love. IT’S NOT MY FAULT, SIR // 60 When two strangers embark on public intimacy. Published by Gaysi Media Private Limited in 2013 Copyright © Gaysi Media Private Limited 2013 Gaysi Media Private Limited 14A/71, Third Floor, WEA, Karol Bagh, Delhi 110 005 Printed and bound in India by Neeta Press, 3574 Daryaganj, New Delhi 110 002 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (elecronic, mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher of this zine. GAYSIA : ADVENTURES IN THE QUEER EAST BY BENJAMIN LAW // 28 An excerpt from the upcoming book . HELPLINES // 61 04 / Contents 05

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