Introduction

This volume explores the unique and the epistemological positions of marginality and exclusion of the non-normative sexualities and identities to those who have a South Asian background—in the context of these emergent transnational geographies of diaspora and in South Asia. Many scholars have employed the term ‘pluralism’, looking at the multiple gender and sexual models, and a range of gendered expressions that are viable to the sensitive analysis of gender and sexuality. The recognition of the gender pluralism and sexual variation would perhaps emerge as an effort to create representation and shape for those non-normative sexualities who have been marginalized—a step further by underscoring an intersectional approach to recognize gendered pluralism, multiculturalism, fluidity, self and representations and the complexities and struggles of identity formation who have experienced discrimination.