ABSTRACT
The queer has always been expurgated from the realms of ethnic constructions, nationalist discourses, and the like in Zo/Mizo cosmology. Colonial encounters and the wave of proselytization threw open the process ‘Localization of the Gospel’. The assimilation and retention of the chauvinistic traditional Zo practices and the Judeo-Christian ‘notions of original sin and sexuality’ went hand in hand. Homosexuality was criminalized in 1909 through a statute (Order No. 3 of 1909. 10) issued by the superintendent of the then Lushai Hills H.W.G. Cole. Post decriminalizing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code by the Supreme Court of India, the churches and the Nexus of Patriarchy forced their policing regime in ‘this worldly’ (khawvel) activities through prohibition (Thiang lo) in both the real and the digitally configured virtual spaces. Cyberspace opens the possibility of disengaging the constrictions in the physical spaces and the rise of a Pink economy/Pink market provides the Zo queer to acquire skills and a chance to express choices and seek/display E-Love without inhibitions. The chapter complicates the limits of the gating of virtual spaces/cyberspaces and the changes in the semantics of the vernacular slur in the Mizo language.
