ABSTRACT
This chapter explores contemporary British and North American discourses on diasporic South Asian Muslims and same-sex desire and identity. It discusses the continuity of such discourses in some aspects of mainstream lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) politics. While it is possible to show that the supposed opposition of South Asian Muslims to gay and lesbian identity is a misrepresentation born out of racist or Islam phobic discourse, the author wants to consider how these discourses of opposition are constructed, as well how they function. This is particularly important for interpreting texts by diasporic queer South Asian Muslims, which cannot be read simply as 'authentic' anthropological documents or as racist representations of Muslim homophobia: ways of reading must resist the parameters of a minoritizing single-issue political logic. Despite the tragedy of the homoantagonism that ends The Two Krishnas, this novel allows for the possibility of seeing differences as relationally produced.
