Khush Khat served as a way for LGBTQ+ Indians, often closeted, to connect in a time when meeting openly was difficult. It facilitated connections across distances and provided a sense of community.
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This is a space for open-ended, expansive, generative dialogues that can profoundly impact how people access their knowing, memory, and energy around queer histories, identities, and experiences.
It is about allowing future generations choices we never had.
This is an opportunity to engage in a generative dialogue about your queer history and experiences. By sharing our stories, we can better understand ur identities and the world around us. The questions here are intended to spark your memory and help you access the energy you hold. There are no right or wrong answers – we're simply creating a space for open and expansive sharing. Your contributions will enrich the Queer India Archives and help future generations connect with these vital narratives.
We invite you to share your stories and experiences related to queer history, identity, and community. These questions are designed to spark your memory and help you access the energy of your past. There are no right or wrong answers – we're simply creating a space for open and expansive sharing. Your contributions will enrich the Queer India Archives and help future generations connect with these vital narratives.
We invite you to share your stories and experiences related to queer history, identity, and community. These questions are designed to spark your memory and help you access the energy of your past. There are no right or wrong answers – we're simply creating a space for open and expansive sharing. Your contributions will enrich the Queer India Archives and help future generations connect with these vital narratives.
When did you know something was different about you or your community/society?
What was your first memory of queerness — in yourself, someone else, or around you?
What choices did you make early on that began shaping your queer identity?
What awareness started you on this path?
Was there a point when you created a new version of yourself? What sparked it?
What’s a story or memory you’ve never shared but still hold for yourself?
What did you know back then that you maybe didn't have words for but knew deeply?
Who or what was your first real connection to queer community, even if it was fleeting or imagined?
What conversations or encounters have changed your life or point of view?
Where in your life did queerness meet something else — caste, class, faith, family — and what emerged from that?
Have you ever felt seen entirely by another queer person? What was that like?
What archives of energy live in your body from love, pain, joy, or kinship?
What connections have you made that you know changed not just you, but the world around you, even subtly?
If you weren’t judging any of it, what story or memory would you tell?
If your body could speak your queer history, what would it say?
What contribution can your story be to queer futures?
What do you know about queer history that no one else does, in the way you do?
Consent: By submitting this form means you consent to Queer India Archives, which manages the Ashok Row Kavi and Bombay Dost collections, to collect and store your submission.
Ashok Row Kavi or Shobhna S Kumar will contact you to discuss how the Archives might use your materials. This will include further conversations, recording options, and potential agreements for public sharing, which can be under your name or anonymously, as you prefer.
You can submit your story using these formats:
Written text or manuscript,
Photos or images,
scanned documents,
Audio recordings,
Video files,
PDF documents.
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